I have two degree's and a hefty debt from ITT. I will admit there where times I wanted to drop out due to certain professors/teachers/instructors/drunkards, but i can say the same thing for the real universities that I also went too. What I want to know besides Excelscor (which I think I spelled wrong) Are there any schools out there that will except my degree's? The degree's are AAS in Electronics Engineering Technology and a BS in Telecomunications Engineering Technology. Not sure what I really need to do since my degree's have served me quite well so far. Thanks Michael
Well ITT being ACICS accredited, you can probably easily slide into some graduate program into another ACICS school. http://www.acics.org/library/AccreditedInst.pdf You didn't say what graduate majors you are interested in if it all or if you just want an RA Bachelors. That would help. There are a few RA schools that have documented that they do accept Nationally Accredited degrees. e.g. Phoenix. I would probably start calling and writing Registrars letters to see if they will accept an ITT degree that is ACICS accredited to satisfy graduate admissions requirements. You can probably have some reasonable success with DETC programs too. Hope this helps,
The best source is your school. I would be very surprised if the question has not come up many times before. Dave A
Greetings. Just curious: If you "...have two degree's and a hefty debt from ITT", and if your "degree's have served ... quite well so far", why are you keen to incur more debt to acquire another degree?
I'm the only one in the family that hasn't gone to Grad school, and I am interested in getting a comparative education degree which is usually only offered at the Grad level. I am not quite sure if it can be done through distance ed. I haven't really researched to hard either. Most of my loans would be paid off by now if it hadn't been for the slump in the tech sector.
Greetings. Darn those vicissitudes of life; some one ought to pass a law against them! <g> I think it is at least possible that "a" grad school, possibly even "the" grad school you prefer, if you ever decide to choose one <g>, might accept you as a "conditional" student. I recently read of one master's program (in engineering) where this allowance was made for would-be students with non-RA degrees. Perhaps it would be wise for you to decide upon a grad school, and then see what they say? Cordially, Richard Kanarek
Good thought, though I have recently decided that a degree in Comparative Education would be handy, but not exactly sure if my tech degree would lead towards it. I have no desire to go back into the tech field and I am more interested in Distance Learning rather than attending an actual brick and mortar. Maybe Excelsior is the best idea.....
mringer, I was not under the impression excelsior accepted credits from a nationally accredited school (does not mean they don't of course, I just didn't think they did). I think you can find a DL graduate school that will accept your BS in telecomm from ITT. Some of these schools just state an accredited bachelors rather than an RA bachelors, so you never know. May I ask what you did w/ that BS in telecommunications engineering technology degree (what did you do for a living)? One of our customer sites is Intel and half the techs I meet there have an ITT associates degree (so it can't be that bad of a school that graduate schools won't even look at it).... Now whether these techs actually use what they have learned in their electronics classes is another story . Best Regards, Bill
Excelsior has credit banking but it comes with a price. I was a lead technician and then a lab manager for Dell Computers. From there I spent 6 months un-employed then did tech support for AISD then moved to a start up firm that did tech support to running the family business. Nothing overly amazing. ITT is a great school, several of my classmates got good jobs straight out of school, I decided to be special and got a bachelors degree. I figure with my GPA (2.8 on the associates and a 3.49 for BA) that someone will want me, besides my wife.
No it is not RA (atleast the Pittsburg and Ft lauderdale campus aren't). Two grads at my work complain about not being able to transfer credits because of it not being RA and a friend back home in south florida had to goto community college to redo an associates because he couldn't transfer his credits from ITT. Devry (which has similar programs) is RA (some locations have ABET accredited programs). Bill
ITT isn't accredited, and i worry about the students sometimes. I went to school in Maitland with a kid that thought is AS EET degree meant he would have and Electrical Engineering degree when he was finished.
ITT Maitland FL is listed as an ACICS accredited institution. ACICS is generally thought of as lesser than DETC but you do have some options, you'd have more options if you were shooting for an MBA rather than a Master's in Comparative Education admittingly, but you do have more options than say someone with an unaccredited or SA approved degree.
shoot first, call what ever i hit my target. I meant to say RA not just unaccredited. I had sushi on the brain.... hmmmm tokoyo duck was good.....
Greetings. I've never before read of a SA (South African) degree being considered on a par with an unaccredited degree. Is this really what you meant? BTW, I read your correction, but it wasn't clear to me what part of your post you were correcting. <g> Cordially, Richard Kanarek
I think he meant State Approved (he just worded it wrong by saying SA approved... mean state approved... approved ). Bill
