Is anyone familiar with bain4weeks.com-share your stories!

[cookderosa]

If a large amount of students were able to get their degree in four weeks by testing-out, it would most certainly impact the value of our degrees. It would mean that there is something wrong with the process, and that these degrees do not equate to a traditionally obtained degree.

If it happens once in a while it is no big deal, just like 12 year old kids occasionally getting into college.

I would rather not have a prospective employer ask, "Is that one of those degrees that you can get in 4 weeks?".

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I disagree. Almost 3000 colleges accept CLEP, and yet even people who attend those 3000 colleges largely have no clue that it is even an option. EVEN ADVISORS don't always know their own college's CLEP policy. Additionally, even when you tell people about CLEP, few are likely to pursue it. Case in point, every semester, I tell my 32 culinary students how to test out of their 15 gen eds using CLEP (available at our college). Since I learned about CLEP- maybe 3 years now, I have shared with 250 students at a minimum. Who has CLEPped? None. Despite the fact that my students must miss work (and $) in their apprenticeship to take their gen eds- they could instead take all gen eds in one day.... <shrug>

Add in the confusion of two other biggies: diploma mills and accreditation. Most people (even in education) have very little knowledge of either. Toss in the online option or private vs public, and most people are so clueless about how to evaluate the legitimacy of a degree that it's hard to have a conversation.

The question about earning a 4 week degree is really this question: "did you buy your degree through a diploma mill?" Anyone who earns a regionally accredited degree through ANY regionally accredited institution has EXACTLY THE SAME degree as EVERYONE else- regardless of length of time enrolled.
Out of the 12,000 TESC graduates last year, how many earned degrees in 1 month? How many EC students tested out vs took classes? Your employer doesn't know either.