Equine Studies (Horsey Bachelor's)

Help,
My partner is just finishing her Equine Studies Associates Degree at Dickinson State via distance (What a cool degree, not an AAS but and actual AS) and we are looking around for a distance equine studies bachelors degree. I haven't found one yet that fits our criteria...
1. RA (of course, personal preference)
2. Stateside (financial aid is an issue)
3. Not some kind of animal husbandry, meat oriented, food preparation deal. (Horses as critters upon which one rides, not simply dog food. Hey, she's not a veggie, she just doesn't have any interest in that field.)
4. Business oriented rather than veterinarianesque ...(veterinarianly, veterinarianopic, veterinarianarian? Help Unk, you're the linguist 'round here.)

I know this is probably hopeless as I have pretty vast resources at hand and haven't found anything, but if you have heard anything. Please let me know
Thanks a bunch.

Dan B

 

You probably are aware that there's a program at Post University here in Connecticut http://www.post.edu but it's not a DL program (despite the fact that they have DL programs).
Sorry, but I've come up empty.
Jack

 

OK, second wind. How about an Interdisciplinary degree program like this:
http://online.fsu.edu/student/degree/explore/program/undergr
Good luck
Jack

 

Actually, a degree need not necessarily be stateside to qualify for financial aid nor does being stateside necessarily guarantee that the program is acceptable for financial aid. See www.fafsa.ed.gov to search whether a given degree qualifies for financial aid. And there are many foreign accreditation systems whose degrees would be accepted as the equivalent of regionally accredited degrees under Generally Accepted Accrediting Principles (GAAP). You might therefore consider checking out Charles Sturt University www.csu.edu.au . Sorry, but that was the only equine studies bachelor's degree listed in Bears' Guide.

 

Horsey Bachelors

I have a professor who is a Horses Ass

 

Thank you Michael. In what school are you enrolled?
Jack

 

Actually, I went ahead and did the search for you. Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, is qualified to participate in federal financial aid programs and their FAFSA code is: G31374.

 

Program to Avoid

Here is one you want to avoid:

http://www.breyer_state.equine/

Good luck.

 

Thanks a bunch guys

Yeah, I saw that Tom, thanks.
And Ted, thanks for the full research about fin aid. It creeps me out a little though. She lives off her fin aid right now and I'd hate to end up with one of those damnable books and tution only calculations for financial aid.
We will certainly apply there!
Thanks to everyone.
Dan B

 

yowza!

Six years for the distance bachelors in equine studies. Oh well, guess she'll just have to try that St. Cloud program we were looking at.
Thanks anyhow folks.

 

Re: yowza!

Assuming you mean the Charles Sturt option, I think they are assuming the distance student will only be studying part time (say about 20 hrs per week). If your partner can devote more than that to her studies, they will probably allow her to enrol in a higher course load, which may remove a year or two from the course duration.

They may grant advanced standing for the "Equine Studies Associates Degree", although it will probably take a bit of convincing them and there is no guarantee CSU would permit it. At most only one year (full time) would be removed from the programme.

 

can I get credit for time spent at the track?

just wondering

 

The equine studies program is a "healthy" program, requiring alot of studying, test taking and sending video of the student handling horses. It requires much of the same work as other schools that offer similar studies. Breyer does not teach the class, it is taught through Success Is Easy, and Breyer is the entity that they are affiliated with for the Bachelor degree. I have no problems with what I have learned about the actual Equine Studies Program. It is solid and well rounded. I do, however have a problem with forking out $350.00 per course plus books if I am going to do all that work, increase my knowledge, and then have a degree that is considered to be from a "degree mill". Again, I am confident in the program, but now I am concerned about the degree.

 

The equine studies program is a "healthy" program, requiring alot of studying, test taking and sending video of the student handling horses. It requires much of the same work as other schools that offer similar studies. Breyer does not teach the class, it is taught through Success Is Easy, and Breyer is the entity that they are affiliated with for the Bachelor degree. I have no problems with what I have learned about the actual Equine Studies Program. It is solid and well rounded. I do, however have a problem with forking out $350.00 per course plus books if I am going to do all that work, increase my knowledge, and then have a degree that is considered to be from a "degree mill". Again, I am confident in the program, but now I am concerned about the degree.