Charter Oak offers a bachelor's degree completely by exam?

I just noticed on one of the ads on the DI pages that Charter Oak offers a bachelor's degree that you can complete by taking exams exclusively; no classes, no papers. I knew you could CLEP out of a lot of classes, but I didn't know you could earn a bachelor's degree while you completely avoid taking a single class. How well would something like that work? Anybody done that before? What are your views?

 

Seriously Michael? You had no idea that Charter Oak, one of the BIG 3, offers a bachelors degree without taking a single class? I find your naivete hard to believe...

 

I'm not sure if this is accurate. I looked up Charter Oak's info recently and they require the completion of two courses through them for a bachelor's degree... a foundation course and a capstone course, unless something has changed.

Not that degree programs ever change. :scratchchin:

 

Yes, this is more in line with what I would expect; one or two courses at least; some sort of a capstone; something!

 

well... actually you've pointed out something that I'd overlooked, and you're totally correct. But I think one capstone course and one "here's how charter oak works" course, if it's all that's required, is pretty close to "entirely by exam"... but we should change out the banners and make that correction and I'll do that.

It would also be really cool if we could get Excelsior and Edison to become advertisers... working on that... and in the meantime, as we put up the rewritten articles on portfolio assessment and credit-by-exam, we'll definitely make sure there's a prominent mention of TESC and Excelsior. (Anyone know if Athabasca is still offering a similar program? At one time they were the fourth of the "big 3" but I haven't heard much about them in years, and their website doesn't immediately make it obvious if that's still an option.)

 

Seriously Tom? You had no idea that Charter Oak, one of the Big 3, does actually require a capstone course and is not totally test only? I find your naivete hard to believe... :smile:

 

I am not aware of COSC having or requiring a "here's how charter oak [sic] works" course. For students matriculating on or after July 1, 2009 (yes, 2009), or for previously matriculated students who have failed meet other deadlines, there is a "capstone" requirement. He's part of the official e-mail, which was sent to me on Feb. 25, 2010 (yes, 2010):

 

You guys crack me up!