City University???

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by futuremillionaire, Dec 22, 2005.

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  1. futuremillionaire

    futuremillionaire New Member

    Curious to know if anyone has attended City University completely online? A little difficult to search with such common words. I was thinking about the MBA in Personal Financial Planning.
     
  2. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    The one in Washington: very well respected.
    The one in Los Angeles: fake
     
  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    My MBAs from City U were earned through night school, so I suppose I can't really help you with any info re their DL programs.
     
  4. Michael Lloyd

    Michael Lloyd New Member

    As Dr. Bear said, if you are referring to the City University headquartered in the Seattle area, and with approximately umpteen branch campuses through the USA, Europe, and possibly your closest US military base, they are held in pretty high repute. Here in the Seattle area and elsewhere, they are very popular with the working adult and active duty military student population. They can be on the high end of tuition per credit hour, but this does not seem to bother all the Microsofties for whom Bill G. is picking up the tab.

    I am told by my friends in local academia that it was the market success of City that caused U of P and Keller to enter our local market. Only in the last few years has City really picked up the pace of complete DL programs, prior to that, they were a face to face bricks and mortar institution almost exclusively.

    I know of three people who are currently enrolled in their DL programs; two of them are somewhere underwater in the North Pacific right now on board their Trident submarines. They are happy with the program.
     
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  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    If you didn't read that board, would what they say affect you anyway? Certainly not. They don't matter.

    I have developed several contacts on this board, however, and what people say matters to me. It matters beyond just the interchange on the board itself. I've developed educational, professional, and research relationships here.

    Ignoring the degree mill sellers is easier than you think. It's as if they're not there at all.
     
  6. futuremillionaire

    futuremillionaire New Member

    It is the one based out of Washington. www.cityu.edu
     
  7. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Please ignore my post above. It was meant for another thread. Sorry.
     
  8. futuremillionaire

    futuremillionaire New Member

    I working in banking and would like to become a Financial Advisor or Planner and had considered completing a Graduate certificate in financial planning after completing a MBA, but I was actually pretty pleasantly surprised by the cost of City U.'s MBA in Personal Financial Planning. In preparation to sit for the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) exam you must complete 6 financial planning courses for a total of 18 hours; the same as with the graduate certificate.

    Instead of charging $375.00 per credit hour as they do with the program's remaining 27 credit hours, you are charged a flat $540 for each of the (6) 3-credit hour courses. Therefore, you have 27x$375 = $10,125 plus the 6x$540 = $3240 for a total of $13,365 for the entire MBA. Not bad at all considering, a MBA in Financial Planning from the California Institue of Finance through CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY charges $515 per credit hours for a total of $24, 720.

    Now I must admit, I'm not thrilled that City U. requires proctured exams. But the overall value of the program seems to be worth it.

    ...two of them are somewhere underwater in the North Pacific right now on board their Trident submarines. They are happy with the program.

    Not a bad conversation piece. Not many people can boast that they earned their degree while miles under the ocean surface. :)
     
  9. futuremillionaire

    futuremillionaire New Member

    No problem, but I will admit that you had me a bit confused :)
     
  10. Michael Lloyd

    Michael Lloyd New Member

    In regards to completely DL programs requiring proctored exams, it is my sense that this is not uncommon. My MBA program, the Edinburgh Business School, also requires proctored exams. Twice a year, I would make the trek to the UW testing center, take my exam, and have it shipped back to Scotland for grading. If exams are the sole means of course assessment, having the exams proctored provides some measure of protection against cheating. Even though my test proctor got to know me well over the years, she would still ask me for photo ID at every exam and carefully record it on the proctor worksheet.

    I was not really aware of this until I married my wife, who a couple of years prior, retired from a 20-year Navy career. She earned her BSc via distance learning on active duty, and then earned her MHA after retirement. But evening and distance learning programs geared toward the military are big business. I have been surprised at the number of colleges with satellite campuses on military bases or offering entirely distance learning programs. Clearly, this must be profitable for the schools, given how many of them are doing this.
     
  11. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Actually, City U has had DL for quite some time, at least from the time I was there (1991-1993) and probably before that. What is new is the fact that the DL programs are being brought online, while the old City U DL was paper-and-print.
     
  12. jaymba

    jaymba New Member

    City University

    I was in your shoes about eight years ago so I did some research online and called a few places in the Washington area to get their take on City University. I was pleased with the feedback I got and decided to complete not one but two grad degrees with them. I cannot tell you how far you'll get when you apply for a job outside the Washington area but thus far, I've had no problems....including getting a $1,000 a month pay raise when I finished my MBA. Good luck.
     

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