Question about Excelsior and post-graduate universities

[Braylen]

Depending on the Masters program you enter, your work experience is as if not more important than any other facet of your student "resume."

If you are straight out of high school, and power through a degree in a year or two through Excelsior while bartending you might not find it particularly easy to get into a second tier program. On the other hand, if you're like a lot of us on these boards - 20 years in an industry and possibly even run your own business, or at least a unit of a business, the degree is simply one of the minimal requirements, and you shouldn't have too much of a problem.

I did my own checking prior to signing up with Excelsior, and the degree programs I was looking into at the time all would accept their program. That's probably the best advice I could give - check with the specific program you are interested in.

Second would be to talk to the admissions folks for that program about what else you could do to bolster your application - it's possible a particular line of study or even volunteer work in that field would be helpful.

Third and finally, if you know what program you want to enter, consider taking some of those classes as your requirements for the Masters. Excelsior allows you to have two classes (and I think more with approval) from Masters level coursework toward your bachelors. You might as well work on both with one class. I'm doing that to satisfy the written english component - Graduate Research and Writing - gives you three upper level credits and satisfies the Information Literacy requirement, plus it counts towards my Masters (which that is a pretty common requirement for).

Good luck!