Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges ?

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  1. MGKRILL

    MGKRILL New Member

    http://www.soc.aascu.org/


    SOC coordinates associate and bachelor's degrees in a variety of curriculum areas for the Army (SOCAD), Navy (SOCNAV), Marine Corps (SOCMAR), and Coast Guard (SOCCOAST). These degree programs are offered by colleges and universities on or accessible to Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard installations worldwide. Within each curriculum or degree network, member colleges agree to accept each other's credits in transfer. Servicemembers and their family members in isolated locations can take courses through such "distance learning" methods as the Internet, correspondence, computer, or video.

    member colleges agree to accept each other's credits in transfer

    http://www.soc.aascu.org/pubfiles/socmisc/UNIV_COLL.pdf

    Theres 1800 colleges on the soc list. I see NA schools such as Columbia Southern University, California National University, California Coast University, and Aspen University to name a few.

    The question I got shouldn't the RA schools on this list accepet NA schools transfer credit per the SOC agreement

    For example Excelsior won't accept CSU transfer credits but per the SOC agreement they should ?
     
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  2. eckert16

    eckert16 New Member

    I've never used SOC for the simple reason that you have to fill out the agreement, state which courses you will take in advance, and based on that agreement, the originating school will award the degree. Problem is, that one can not predict where they will be assigned, and thus can not reasonably predict which courses will even be available ... or even which college will be available at the assigned location.
    In theory, it is a good idea to use SOC if you are able to predict which schools and courses will be available in your career, however, that is usually the unknown.

    If you are questioning why the school won't accept a course based on SOC participation: particating schools are to work with the SOC participant to come up with a degree plan to which the student then plugs in the courses from different schools. If you are doing it backwards: taking courses then approaching schools to accept the courses even thought they didn't agree to such (and how could they since they didn't know you existed), then SOC participants would do what anyone else would... say 'what?'
     
  3. MGKRILL

    MGKRILL New Member

    SOC

    From my understaning this is how SOC works you begin taking classes with college A. Do to new assignments or deployments you enter a SOC agreement with college A to complete your degree with college B,C, & D. Regradless of accredition NA or RA college A is obligated to accept college B,C, & D credits as long as its a member of SOC.

    I know this all has to be agree upon in advance. But in therory since these colleges became part of SOC and agreed to accept each other credits for transfer. you would think you should be able to transfer credits freely among these schools as long as it applies to your degree ??
     
  4. Charles

    Charles New Member

    You are not entirely correct. To have the "transfer guarantee," the college must hold membership in SOCAD, SOCNAV, SOCMAR, or SOCCOAST.

    http://www.soc.aascu.org/socgen/ForColls.html

    The SOCNAV Handbook provides more information (p. 1-6 and 1-7):

    http://www.soc.aascu.org/pubfiles/dphandbk/socnav4Hb.pdf


    Additionally, transfer guarantees are limited to delivery method (p. 1-3)

    According to the transfer tables in Section 4, SOCAD, SOCNAV, SOCMAR and SOCCOAST schools do not generally welcome transfer credit earned by distance learning from nationally accredited institutions.
     

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