Credit for Industry Certs

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While I respect your opinion I must disagree. I don't know about all schools of course, but I do know that Purdue University accepts technical certifications for credit. The same would be true for Excelsior, TESC, COSC, WGU, and the list goes on. I wouldn't describe these as technical community colleges. Aspen is a legit school, but they certainly should udpate their website to include faculty, CSU I'm certain does include faculty on their website.

As far as ABET is concerned CSU isn't an American school, so I'm not sure what their lack of an American professional accrediation should mean to anyone. Aspen isn't ABET either, but I don't think any DETC program is. I'm not that informed on ABET, but my understanding is that its primary focus is engineering programs not IT/IS type programs, though I do know they have some of those as part of their focus (When I say 'some'. They have a total of 16 colleges that they list as Accredited Computing Programs for IS, 0 of which are listed as approved for a graduate program in IS). This is the first time I've heard anyone mention ABET outside of an engineering program. If you're going to limit yourself to ABET approved IS programs then you certainly have a short list to work from.

I've not joined any gradaute program so I have no real reason to defend any of these programs, but I don't think it would be correct to say that either isn't a legit degree as they're both properly accredited in their home country. Though, at the same time people should recognize the limitations of any specific accrediation, which I mentioned in an earlier post. No one should be fooled into thinking one of these programs is the same as going to MIT, but they're also not programs to just con people out of money.

I would like to see the links to these schools (specially purdue), where it says they accept ALL IT certifications. I agree, purdue might accept certs, but probally as electives. They are in someway limiting it, probally to only one certification. Link me up though, and I will read.

Now I know I am going to step on some peoples toes, and I am sorry. But the master program from aspin, has all basic courses. Take a CS or IT program from an ABET accreddited uni and compare. The courses found in any ABET program are far more complex then the courses in the masters. Now if you compare a community colleges 2 year comp whatever program, it looks more like what aspin is offering. ABET is the industry standard for all computing and engineering. IS and IT are able to get ABET accreddited, the reason there is not a lot of programs that you find on ABET is because there is not a lot of IT 4 year degrees. Most of the IT 4 year degrees come from no-name online schools which only offer it to make a profit. Most people who go to college and come out with an IT job are CS majors.

Just by reading aspins site you can tell its a con. #1 is the faculty, they simply tell you "OH OUR faculty are the greatest." If they had good researchers they would be listed. The bottom line is they cannot even afford to hire faculty. Personally, I would stick to traditional school. It may cost more, but atleast you will get what you paid for: that is knowledge and a degree that stands out.