02-12-2011, 02:13 PM
Right, For the engineering major, (something you really cant get a BA/BS in online anyway) a bachelors is very handsom by itself. Likewise with nursing or other hands-on major.
Good point on the time - most of us have gone/are going to the schools we are because of the generous test-out ploicy, but there are several other schools that offer 30, 45 or even 60 credits as you mentioned. We all have our reasons for going where we went and like you I couldn't rationalize 4 years in college.
I don't think anyone here is against 'traditional" learning butt-in-seat style, or blindly promoting "the big three" - yes, there are other schools with similar policies - I'd like to know more about them, and expand our horizons on this board. Maybe a thread should be started on this...
[QUOTE=burbuja0512]
I love the "Masters is the new Bachelors" quote. It's not true of all undergraduate degrees, but yes, in most cases it really is true. We saw the same thing with our parents and grandparents' generation. High school used to be enough.
The path to a masters degree is VERY long without testing.
There are many alternatives to the big 3 that we don't talk about as often as we perhaps should.. compromises to the almost-100% testing route. For someone who's not pressed for cash and has time available to take some B&M classes, I've seen some schools with generous CLEP acceptance policy. QUOTE]
Good point on the time - most of us have gone/are going to the schools we are because of the generous test-out ploicy, but there are several other schools that offer 30, 45 or even 60 credits as you mentioned. We all have our reasons for going where we went and like you I couldn't rationalize 4 years in college.
I don't think anyone here is against 'traditional" learning butt-in-seat style, or blindly promoting "the big three" - yes, there are other schools with similar policies - I'd like to know more about them, and expand our horizons on this board. Maybe a thread should be started on this...
[QUOTE=burbuja0512]
I love the "Masters is the new Bachelors" quote. It's not true of all undergraduate degrees, but yes, in most cases it really is true. We saw the same thing with our parents and grandparents' generation. High school used to be enough.
The path to a masters degree is VERY long without testing.
There are many alternatives to the big 3 that we don't talk about as often as we perhaps should.. compromises to the almost-100% testing route. For someone who's not pressed for cash and has time available to take some B&M classes, I've seen some schools with generous CLEP acceptance policy. QUOTE]
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