University of Denver

I have never noticed this university mentioned on Degreeinfo.com.

The University of Denver offers several DL masters degree in communication, CIS, liberal studies, and more.

Tuition appears to be $378/unit.

http://www.universitycollege.du.edu/program/online/plans.asp

 

I took a peek at their website and I'd say that it looks like a very nice mid-sized university. They have lots of good looking graduate programs, including a law school and a school of professional psychology. The tuition is $28K per year for those who are enrolled in the B&M programs. At just over $1100.00 per course the DL offerings don't seem like such a great deal. Maybe if you lived locally the name brand would be worth it but that value might not translate well across a large distance. That's my best guess as to why it's not discussed more often.
Jack

 

Good regional reputation for its law school. DULaw offers the only LL.M. tax program in the Rocky Mountain West. Also offers an LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. Generally thought to be too damned expensive, though. I agree with that; the Universities of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado (Boulder), and New Mexico each offer a perfectly good J.D. for about 1/3th of UD's tuition, not to mention Arizona, Utah, Arizona State and good old Texas Tech, all of which are in UD's "catchment" area though not, strictly speaking, in Rocky Mountain states.

It's kind of interesting, now that I think of it...in the Rockies there is but a SINGLE private law school, UD! In the West, outside of California and Texas (which doesn't really count as a Western state) there are but, what, six private law schools? Two each in Oregon and Washington and one each in Utah and Colorado...

DULaw survives, to some extent, by being the ONLY school in the Rockies that has a four year night program.

Just finished a new campus in Denver and moved the law school back downtown from an ex girls' school away out on Monaco or somewhere...I could find it myself but I couldn't tell anyone else how to find it.

 

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is a Unversity of Denver product:

"Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981."

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/41252.htm

 

As an avid fan of the UND hockey team, the 2005 NCAA runner-up, I have the distinct displeasure of contributing to this conversation the observation that the University of Denver is the two-time defending national champion.

 

Has anyone been through a DL degree at the school?

 

Interestingly enough, Rice's mentor was former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's father.

 

I am four classes away from completing an MAS in Telecommunications at DU. I have also taken electives from outside the telecom program - GIS, project management (DU's PM courses are PMI approved), and information security (DU is an NSA Center of Excellence).

Non MIS/CIS/CS/telecom students may wish to tune out at this point:

My experience has been a mixed bag - some of the core technical curriculum has been rather weak, with one instructor meaning well but being at a loss as how to effectively conduct instruction, and another instructor being almost completely invisible. The required writing and research course was good, but not particularly groundbreaking - it didn't cover anything that a baccalaureate shouldn't be familiar with. I was absolutely stunned by a few peers' low level of writing proficiency.

I wish there were a research methods course available; it's absence surprises me that in a technical program in which statistical methods would be useful for capstone development. However, I've seen at least one other technical program that doesn't introduce research methods until the doctoral level (I'm thinking of Indiana State).

I visited the campus a year and a half ago, visiting the library in order to review the capstone projects submitted by past graduates. Only a few were available - half were very good, and half were pure crap (none near the level of some I've seen come out of MIT). Now, the capstones have all been digitized and made available online, so prospective students can make their own judgments regarding a program's rigor.
http://ectd.du.edu/search/

Over the past six months, however, there have been signs of improvement. At the beginning of the last academic year DU switched content management systems from Blackboard to Ecollege, and I think this has helped the department enforce a common course organizaton model, making quality more consistent across courses.

Moreover, the telecom program just made available a wireless concentration, the goals of which are to prepare graduates for both CWNP and NARTE certification.

On the whole, I'm satisfied. However, if money were no object I would probably have selected University of Colorado at Boulder's telecom program (CAETE) over DU's, owing to CU having stronger faculty credentials.

To close, I'll note that figure skater Michelle Kwan has just enrolled at DU.

 

You probably just started a rush/stampede of enrollments at DU.

Dave

 

Interesting....