Any college accept Microsoft certifications for college credits ?

I've completed a MCSE Enterprise Devices and Apps and a MCSD: Web Applications

Wondering if they can be turned into credits ? Anyone know any college that offers credits for the certifications ?

I've emailed TESU..... a month ago

still waiting for them to get back to me

 

Here's some info on ACE credit:

https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/posts/earn-college-credit-by-passing-an-exam

ACE CREDIT | The National Guide to College Credit for Workforce Training | Find a Course or Exam

 

Or maybe you don't need the college degree: https://academy.microsoft.com/en-US/professional-degree/data-science/

 

Excelsior College accepts Microsoft certifications for credit. You can use their transcript options or apply for a degree.

I have several certifications from CISCO and Microsoft and was able to get more than 30 credits. I first transferred them to a transcript but nobody would take them for a degree because most schools do not accept transcripts with credits from another school (in this case Microsoft and CISCO) than the one issuing the transcript. In few words, a transcript from Excelsior would normally transfer if credits were earned at excelsior. However, some people get the transcript just to show an employer skills in a certain area.

I finally applied these credits towards a degree in IT, if you have already a degree, you can get a second one if you have more than 30 credits in a different area. My original degree was a BS in Engineering so got a second one in IT.

A degree is better than certifications, I transferred them because my certifications lost relevance in the market so a credit transfer was a good investment.

 

A degree is not "better" than certifications. There are some high level certifications that will land you a job faster than a graduate degree from a top tier school.

If you think your certification lost relevance how much weight do you think an employer will give your degree when you earned it 15-20 years ago?

 

OK, a degree is better than obsolete certifications. An IT degree without certification is normally fine for jobs that are not so technical but require an IT degree. I use it to get contracts in Computational Finance that pay more than $100 an hr. with my Ms in Financial Management. Again, this is my personal experience and cannot be generalized.

By the way, my engineering degree was earned more than 25 years ago and people still notice it. Again, personal experience.

 

That's somewhat true. The person who is in charge of opening help desk tickets and resetting email passwords at my company requires a degree but the A+ certification is only preferred. At $14/hr you can only ask for so much.

Then stop generalizing it. Your specific circumstances are clearly somewhat unique. Yet this is the fourth time you've tried to use those unique circumstances to broadly paint a picture of the world of "IT" despite it being incredibly diverse and the needs varying from company to company and region to region.

Depending upon what discipline of engineering your degree was awarded in that shouldn't be surprising. But if your degree is in CS or IT then the content of those degrees becomes quite obsolete quite quickly. Granted, the degree isn't meant to be a dynamic education, but if the only education on your resume is a B.S.C.S. from 1998 and you have not a single certification from the last 15 years that degree will hopefully keep you warm as a kid with no degree and a bunch of boot camps under his/her belt takes the job you were hoping for.

 

I'm in IT and some certs like CCIE, PMP, MCSE, and maybe CCNP can hold way more weight than a degree. But its not so simple to say one or the other is better by itself. Lots of my IT friends don't have degrees because in IT having certs is the name of the game. But most of them have hit a wall in career progression because of the lack of a degree. They will by no means be unemployed or in a soup line anytime soon. But they seem to all be senior techs in their fields and when they job hop its the same thing at the next company. On the techexam forum when the question is asked "Degree Vs Cert?" the overwhelming answer is its all important. A degree is just one leg of a three legged stool. The other legs would be experience and certs.

 

The Big 3 (at least Excelsior) and WGU grant credit for MS Certifications.

 

TESU will only give credit for MS certs if they are ACE-approved. Excelsior is more liberal with giving credits for IT certs. COSC has a list of certifications eligible for credits on their website, but it's difficult to copy and paste from my phone.