Which college requires less than 30 resident credits to graduate ?

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  1. nyvrem

    nyvrem Active Member

    Most colleges need 30 resident credits done with them to graduate.

    Which colleges require less than 30 credits for graduation ?

    eg, 15 credits only ?

    Well, besides the big 3.

    :sadwavey::sadwavey::sadwavey:
     
  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Which colleges require zero hours to graduate?
     
  3. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Maybe Athabaska?
     
  4. bceagles

    bceagles Member

    It's difficult to find a program at a traditional college/university under 30. It wound be even more difficult to have all your existing credits match said program exactly.

    Just another reason the Big 3 are so successful, in my opinion.

    I remember digging for a unique program at a traditional school that would be competitive with residency flexibility. If it existed then it would be all over this forum.

    Just out of curiosity, why not any of the big 3? EC was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
     
  5. nyvrem

    nyvrem Active Member

    oh, im not against the big 3. i just thought having more options is always a good thing. esp if there's some hidden gem somewhere.

    like i found, you can go straight into a Masters in UK if you don't have an undergraduate degree. provided you can document your work experience to be relevant to what you wish to study.

    also, someone with an associates degree can do a 1 year Top-Up degree from some UK universities to get a degree.

    i'm just looking at other available options.
     
  6. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Well over 20 years ago, I served as a preceptor in the Master of Human Services program at Lincoln University, an HBCU in Pennsylvania that has boasted graduates like Thurgood Marshall and Langston Hughes. Lincoln is a state-affiliated university (as opposed to a state college per se, similar in ranking to Penn State or the University of Pitsburgh.

    To get into the MHS program, you were not required to have a bachelor’s degree as long as you had five years experience working in a human services field and were currently employed in the human services.

    I remember that the program was highly theoretical and of high quality. (Note: it is not a distance education program.) I sat in on some of their weekly sessions and found the dialogues to be engaging and clinically sound. But, having worked at one time at a hospital that had several staff in the program, I also perceived a mindset among non-Lincoln folk that those who went into the MHS program were “lacking.” They seemed to have the feeling, “I got a bachelor’s degree, you should, too.”

    And ultimately, I concluded that the detractors were right – not for the egocentric reason of “I paid my dues, so should you,” but because the non-bachelor’s students in the programs lacked the breadth-and-depth exposure that one gets with a bachelor’s degree.

    Were the non-bachelor’s Lincoln MHS grads good? Yes. (I always felt that I could not have completed the MHS program, even with my B.A., because it was far too theoretical for my taste.) But they were not as good as they would have been if they had gone the undergrad route first.

    The question is ultimately, why skip a bachelor’s degree? The first answer that comes to my mind is the usual “fast, cheap, and easy” rationale. But as any scientific researcher will tell you, you don’t skip steps.

    In a master’s (or doctoral) program, you go for sharply defined focus. But in a bachelor’s program, you go for breadth and depth, and fulfill that goal with the distribution requirement that you find in most undergrad programs. That may not be the only way to do it, but it’s still the best way to do it.

    Um, so there.
     
  7. Davewill

    Davewill Member

    That feature, plus supporting distance learning, is WHY we call them the Big3. If there were others, we'd have the Big4, 5, or 6. After the Big3, the next most popular are the competency programs like WGU and Patten because you can earn those 30 resident credits as quickly as you're capable.
     
  8. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    Amberton has a 12 credit transfer max for graduate (RA only). I believe their programs tend to come in at 36 credits. So, 24 credits (6 courses) total if you max out credits.
     
  9. bceagles

    bceagles Member

    I remember considering Herriot Watt and Cambridge College's (Massachusetts) no undergraduate masters degree options early in my search for the right program.

    It's my opinion, in the US anyways, that a masters degree without an undergraduate degree would look weird on a resume and raise too many flags.
     
  10. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    To be clear you mean a BS degree requires 30 SH.
    Associate Degrees only require 15 as a rule, but there are a few exceptions. I know of some that are only 3 or 6 SH.
     
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  11. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    The West Virginia University Regents Bachelor of Arts (RBA) degree program only require a total 24 (WV) residency hours (only 3 at the degree university). Many different Universities to chose from.
     
  12. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    About 5 Universities in Illinois accept up to 100 credits of the 120 in transfer (20 resident) for a BSG Degree Program.
    https://www.eiu.edu/bgs/
     
  13. RFValve

    RFValve Well-Known Member

    I know few people that are in the same situation, their main problem was that the MS qualification is not enough in many cases to apply for work permits or permanent resident visas as the UK MS qualification is normally equivalent to one year of post secondary education. Immigration (Canada, US or Australia) many times require at least 3 to 4 years of post secondary education in order to qualify for visas.

    In the UK in many instances, it is not the degree that matters but a professional qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, BCS, etc. It is also assumed that general education was taken before University so most BS degrees will not include courses in Science, humanities, etc and just professional courses.

    It is kind of weird that someone tries to go backwards but for practical reasons, the BS degree holds more value in some professions than the MS degree.
     
  14. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    In the USA in the Emergency Management field professional qualifications mean more also. A BS in Emergency Management is meaningless, but a BS in basket weaving with the CEM will get you a job.

     
  15. guyfawkes

    guyfawkes Member

    What Associate degree programs only require 3 or 6? That's very interesting.
     
  16. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    Board of Governors Associate in Applied Science (BOG AAS) degree did only require 3 SH from some of the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia.
    https://secure.cfwv.com/Home/Board_of_Governors.aspx

    Military: Vincennes University, 6 SH (I did this one).
    Military: University of Alaska, 3 SH (I wish I had known)
    Military: CityU of Seattle, 3 SH (I may still do this one)

    The Big three are all 0 or 3 SH.



     
  17. guyfawkes

    guyfawkes Member

    Hm, so minus the West Virginia one, they are all for the military. And I don't believe the Big 3 are all 0 or 3 anymore. I know at least one requires a cornerstone and capstone for either an Associate's degree or a Bachelor's degree. The other two may be 0 and 3, but they also all like to add that random literacy (I'm thinking computer literacy but I can't recall) requirement that's one credit.
     

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