02-08-2024, 10:15 PM
I LOVED my time at Amberton. I also attended WGU and didn't enjoy it. Wasn't a good fit for me. I didn't find their grad level courses to be on par with the other grad level courses I had taken at other universities. At Amberton, you have a 10 week term which is nice. You get a break between terms. They are closed for holidays so nothing is due on a holiday which is nice. Other online programs aren't like that. When I was at CSU Global, we had assignments due on the 4th of July and Thanksgiving which was a total nightmare.
Amberton also allows you to see the course syllabus before you register for a course so if you're not sure if you can handle the workload that term, you know it in advance. You also know what books are needed so you can budget for them and order them. I purchased or rented all of my books through Amazon's Kindle app. I loved digital books as I could read them anywhere. Many professors have weekly Zoom calls. Sometimes they're optional. Sometimes they're not. But you'll know if they're required because it's on the syllabus. I was just looking at taking a couple of courses and the professor has mandatory Zoom calls on Mondays and they're 45% of the grade. This didn't work for me so I knew that I couldn't take that course this term.
You'll still need to apply to Amberton to enroll in the certificate program. They will need your transcripts to confirm that you have a bachelor's degree. They don't have sales people like UMPI did (UMPI doesn't have that third party vendor anymore). There's like 2 people who handle admissions and they're not pushy at all. Also you know how UMPI was slow with everything? Amberton is also slow. It's a small university. The campus is an office building basically.
For the VESI courses, make sure you only take courses that are 3 credits. Amberton only accepts 3 credit courses. These don't work for all degrees as each degree has different requirements. Most degrees don't have any room for what are essentially electives. You can absolutely take 1 grad course per term. That's really normal!
Amberton also allows you to see the course syllabus before you register for a course so if you're not sure if you can handle the workload that term, you know it in advance. You also know what books are needed so you can budget for them and order them. I purchased or rented all of my books through Amazon's Kindle app. I loved digital books as I could read them anywhere. Many professors have weekly Zoom calls. Sometimes they're optional. Sometimes they're not. But you'll know if they're required because it's on the syllabus. I was just looking at taking a couple of courses and the professor has mandatory Zoom calls on Mondays and they're 45% of the grade. This didn't work for me so I knew that I couldn't take that course this term.
You'll still need to apply to Amberton to enroll in the certificate program. They will need your transcripts to confirm that you have a bachelor's degree. They don't have sales people like UMPI did (UMPI doesn't have that third party vendor anymore). There's like 2 people who handle admissions and they're not pushy at all. Also you know how UMPI was slow with everything? Amberton is also slow. It's a small university. The campus is an office building basically.
For the VESI courses, make sure you only take courses that are 3 credits. Amberton only accepts 3 credit courses. These don't work for all degrees as each degree has different requirements. Most degrees don't have any room for what are essentially electives. You can absolutely take 1 grad course per term. That's really normal!
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