Unless you are planning completing degree through UoP, contact the registrar at your 'desination' or 'terminal' college where you plan on completing a degree, and figure out what is 'accepted' there. It can save lots of time, anguish, and $$$.
><> ... Jack On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rob, Yea... I had been worried about that aspect of it. However, UoP > is accredited but just not the right type of accreditation. That was > my biggest concern and that's one of the reasons I posted here cause I > knew some of you had been through or at least had some knowledge of > them. I really want to go to school (never went to college at all, > never had the time) so now that I have all this downtime and the > online courses are starting to look very nice right now because i stay > at home with the kids and it just fits my schedule much nicer. > > Cheers guys.... thanks for all the input... it helped out a lot, I > should get a call from NSCC really soon.. > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Rob Huffstedtler > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The biggest advantage of an accredited degree is that it makes it >> significantly easier to go on to graduate education. It may or may >> not help in transferring credits if you decide to get a 4 yr degree >> elsewhere. One of my many previous schools routinely rejected >> transfer credits within a major. They would count the hours as >> elective hours but make the student take basically the same class all >> over again for to meet the degree requirements. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Andrew, They are credible: >>> http://www.phoenix.edu/about_us/accreditation.html >>> >>> Buuuuut, it may not be the kind of accreditation other colleges use. >>> Like for instance, UoP's Business credit is not the same as MTSU. >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Chris Faulkner >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm considering going to University of Phoenix to get an >>>>> Associates of >>>>> IT out of the way. Has anyone out there gone through UoP and if you >>>>> have tell me your story. >>>>> >>>> I might be wrong, but I am not sure if I see UoP as credible in any >>>> way. >>>> Your almost better going to volunteer state comm college. >>>> >>>> For me, it has been all about technical competence and experience. >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> > >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
