Southern Columbia University

First time posting in this forum.

Has anyone heard any new info on Southern Columbia University? I see they finally received a full accreditation from DETC. They seem to be flexible yet committed to higher education. The "open calendar" schedule is very attractive to me due to my demanding job. Has anyone heard of anything negative in regards to their curriculum?? Perhaps an in ability to transfer credits to other schools???

 

At $125 per credit that is a $15,000 Bachelor's degree.

I think you will find RA degrees for the same or less (Charter Oak, Thomas Edison and Excelsior I beleive will be less expensive.)

Master's degree Amberton will be about the same and RA.

Dan

 

With so many RA-DL programs why would you even consider a program that is accredited by DETC. They are problems in transferring the credits to other undergraduate programs and I believe you will certainly encounter difficulties in transferring to graduate institutions. Look at Liberty, Amberton, Central Michigan as well as Thomas Edison and Excelsior (I have a sociology degree from there) and a Masters in Counseling from Liberty. Good Luck.

 

Unless there has been a very recent name change, it's Columbia Southern University (and I still can't understand why Columbia University, which sued Columbia Healthcare for name infringement, seems uninterested in Columbia Southern, Columbia Pacific, Columbia Commonwealth, etc.).

In any event, clear evidence reported here earlier suggests that DETC-accredited degrees have roughly 40% of the level of acceptance of regionally accredited ones. Clearly this meets some people's needs, but others may be annoyed to discover, later, that their degree will not be accepted for credit transfer, graduate school, etc.

John Bear
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