What Grad School Accepts Most Credit for Life Experience

Has anybody had any experiencewith any graduate schools that offer and accept the most amount of Life Learning and Life Work Portfolio experience.??
Im interested in Business school that will work with me,and one that is Legitimate. Tks

 

Sounds like undergrad stuff to me. Do any legitimate grad programs offer such credit? I don't think so.

 

According to:

Thomas Flint, Ph.D. Vice President for Lifelong Learning Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), the following institutions offer experiential credit at the graduate level:

1. DePaul University's School for New Learning (Chicago) .
2. University of Mary (North Dakota) .
3. University of Illinois at Springfield

4. Central Michigan University -- Can be done at a distance.

5. The Fielding Institute (Santa Barbara, CA) -- Can be done at a distance.

6. Thomas Edison State College (Trenton, NJ) -- has a Master of Science
in Management and a Master of Arts in Professional Studies, both as online degrees. Visit the web site at www.tesc.edu/degrees.


I'm not sure he got it right with TESC, but I did spot check The Fielding Institute and sure enough, Fielding does have a provision that it's possible for a student to exempt out of a class in their graduate programs if the student can convince the dean s/he knows the class already.

 

Columbia Southern University, a DETC accredited school, offers graduate credit for prior learning, demonstrated through a portfolio.

That's just one example that I happen to be familiar with. I'm sure there are many more.

 

A maximum of 9 credit-hours as per DETC regulation.

 

9 units isn't bad, that can be up to 25% of a graduate degree by experiential learning. Neat.

 

Excelsior's MA in Liberal Studies can also grant you some credit for previous knowledge, if your knowledge -- i.e., of a liberal arts subject -- is in depth and you prove it somehow to their satisfaction. You may well have to travel to Albany to be examined, and I believe the cost of such an exam is the same as the cost of a 3-credit course online, but at least you would save some time in finishing the degree.
Peter