Transfer ability from SCUps to NCU - part 2?

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by back2cali, Jul 24, 2005.

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  1. back2cali

    back2cali New Member

    I would like to be enlightened on the previous post that appears to have taken a sharp turn from it's original intentions of discussion.

    Can one transfer graduate credits from SCUps to NCU? If so, how many can be transferred for instance in a doctoral program per say? Will NCU accept doctoral coursework completed at SCUps as partial fullfillment of a NCU program?

    Does anyone have direct experience in doing so?

    thank you for any response of evidence that could help assist in my questions.
     
  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    go to www.ncu.edu .
     
  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Darn! I can't seem to find it, but somewhere, there was a thread that asked what was meant by the term "accredited or approved university" in the context of its transfer policy. I'm thinking it had to do with NCU, and it was generally opined that "approved" probably meant California's state-approved universities. Just can't find the darn thing. Perhaps the best thing to do is call and talk to an admissions advisor and outright ask them if they'll take SCUPS credit in transfer to the NCU doctoral program.
     
  4. Messagewriter

    Messagewriter New Member

    I agree that you will just have to call them. Please post their response. Thanks and good luck.
     
  5. Tony Coats

    Tony Coats New Member

    scups and ncu

    Hello. I have been reading postings on this site for a long time.

    In regards to your question about transfer of credits to ncu from scups, I can answer this question for you as I looked in to doing this a few months ago.

    In 2000/2001 I was a doctorate student in the PSYD program with SCUPS. I completed 16 hours of credits. In my opinion the course requirements were rigorous and demanding. And, believe me when I say this, if something is not right with one of your assignments, you get it back for correction or just get it marked incorrect. Anyway, I had to drop out of the program because a family had a serious illness and limited life left.

    As you know, SCUPS stopped offering the doctorate degrees to go for the DETC accreditation. When I tried to get back into the program with SCUPS, I could not. So I dropped it for a while.

    Then, thanks to this site, I heard about NCU. So I checked it out and applied. After several weeks I was accepted. I had four courses at the doctorate level already taken at SCUPS. Three of the four were required courses for their psy doctorate. NCU accepted three of the four courses towards the degree. However, I still had to earn 51 total hours with NCU. Those transferred credits only gave me the option of choosing from electives. So that did not help with my credits. So I reapplied to SCUPS and resumed my doctorate PSY D. I think they will only transfer up to 6 credits to the masters degree.

    I have attended several b&m schools to include, UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, Nash Technical Institute, NC State and one course at Duke. I will give you my opinion about SCUPS quality of education. On a scale of 1 - 5 I would rate them a 4.5. I have found that this is a wonderful school, excellent faculty who are there to help you along every bit of the way. The course texts and course contents are up to date and require about 20 or more hours a week in studies and completing assingments throughout the semester. The course contents and materials are basically what the RA b&m schools used when I attended those.

    I would like to see SCUPS do more in research.

    I am back with SCUPS and will be graduating in a couple of years.


    A note on Dr. John Bear and his remarks about SCUPS. I have read on this site a few months back that SCUPS had used some of his writings and turned the words around or something and made it like he was in favor of SCUPS. The retracted that info. BUT, no one from the university called to apologize to him. So, he has a personal grudge against this school that clouds his professionalism. He keeps referencing the article in the Chronicle about diploma mills. This was never substantuated and the matter was cleared with Thailand. I believe that John Bear does quite a bit of good for education, but when I read personal grudge remarks about a school being a diploma mill and it is not, that indicates to me, and hopefully intelligent others, that his personal biases statements are just that and these statements and opinion over ride his professionalism of being an author and somewhat of an "expert" on distant learning education. Thus, blurring his reputation in being honest as a professional when it comes to reviewing and reporting on schools. If he would do that to one statistics would show, he woulr do it to another.

    And if you happen to read this Dr. Bear, I believe that Dr. Gray is being replaced soon. Hope that will remove that splinter from your eye. Don't demean a school because of one or two doings. Think of the students. They had nothing to do with whatever went on between you and SCUPS.

    Tony
     
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  6. DaveHayden

    DaveHayden New Member

    Sounds more like a fact than a grudge. You have to judge a school by its actions and plagerism/fraud is not very high up on the scale! Scups may serve your needs but I would have serious reservations about recommending it to any one.
     
  7. back2cali

    back2cali New Member

    Thank you for the posts and I hope to find more as well. So my understanding is, should NCU accept graduate SCUps coursework, one would still be required to complete the 51 sh. for the doctorate program anyway. So basically, transferring from SCUps would not be a financial benefit as anyone would need to complete 51 sh. credit regardless.

    Thanks for sharing.
     
  8. carlosb

    carlosb New Member

    Keep in mind:

    From the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

    http://www.ncahigherlearningcommiss...cyBookJan05.pdf

    Transfer of Credit
    So NCU can allow for a transfer of credit from SCUPS if they so choose.

    It is best to rely on your own reseach before coming to a conclusion. There are some wonderful people on this fourm that are willing to help.

    And there are others with hidden agendas that like to spread falsehoods and\or give opinions stated as fact.

    Just my opinion
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19930
     

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