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It will be interesting to see if they will accept students with no bachelors degree at all. Their site says: "significant professional or other work experience with supporting recommendations may qualify as an adequate substitute for the appropriate academic credentials"

However, there have traditionally been accreditation issues with accepting students into masters programs without an undergraduate degree (I ran into this when trying to take non-degree graduate classes at Stanford).



Very interesting, indeed.

I dropped out of engineering school to start my first company when I was a junior and never went back.

I'd probably have to retake everything since it has been so long. There are so many bullshit required electives and almost all of the undergraduate classes would be worthless in terms of actually teaching me anything. It would be so frustrating to waste that much time.

But I am 100% sure I could handle a master's program. It would be interesting and I would learn alot to boot. If a university was serious about the 'professional experience can be used in lieu of academic credentials' I'd seriously consider shifting my life around to get a Masters.


If you already know the material, an hour long CLEP test can get you out of just about every required elective most degrees have.


Looking through the CLEP tests...

It appears that they mostly cover freshman/sophomore level material. There are certainly not enough to get a full-fledged degree.


I never implied they were. They're designed exactly to let you test out of those introductory classes you think "won't teach you anything" you don't already know.


Yeah...I was talking about classes through upper division coursework not just the introductory classes.


Excelsior college lets one transfer 117 of 120 credits or something similar and you can complete a business degree almost entirely by examination. No residency requirement either.

If you just need some degree that's the way to go.


I'd wonder if any grad school in the country would let people in with a degree from Excelsior.




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