UMPI CBE IS EXPANDING

[Cofffeee]

Here's hoping for a non business or computer undergrad degree.

This is 100% speculation on my part: I wouldn’t be surprised if they start offering a psychology degree through YourPace. The other YourPace programs have largely relied upon existing faculty and UMPI offers psychology on campus and, according to one list I saw, as an online degree. 

There are other fields that would make sense, drawing on their current resources, like education and social work. The problem with these is that they require field placements, at least in their current on-campus configurations. I suppose they could offer them without the field placements (so, non-licensure for education) or have field placements that didn’t 100% align with the whole CBE thing. 

Particularly after UMPI has rolled out the CS programs, I also would not be surprised by a math degree. Around half of the math BA courses would already be on offer. 

Biology, exercise science, and recreation would all seem to be difficult because of the lab/field experience requirements in the current degree plans. Environmental science or agribusiness would seem to be possibilities. If I ran UMPI, I would really push for one or both of those programs because they are not readily available elsewhere.

They had Psycology degree through Yourpace but they stopped it. I believe there were few issues with it. I guess it possible they will offer it again

[LevelUP]

From the latest Trustee Meetings... There's a lot of details!

• They have grown from 2000 credit hours in Business Administration in year 1 (about 16 students worth 120 credits) to 7000 credit hours this year so far. They wish to grow to 10k a year enrollment by 2023. That's about 85 students starting/finishing each year, we can totally do this right DegreeForum?  
  

With the latest 30 RA requirement from TESU and CharterOak, it's going to a lot cheaper/quicker to do business and general studies type degrees at UMPI when starting from scratch.

So there should be a wave of new people from DegreeForum doing UMPI this year.

[dfrecore]

From the latest Trustee Meetings... There's a lot of details!

• They have grown from 2000 credit hours in Business Administration in year 1 (about 16 students worth 120 credits) to 7000 credit hours this year so far. They wish to grow to 10k a year enrollment by 2023. That's about 85 students starting/finishing each year, we can totally do this right DegreeForum?  
  

With the latest 30 RA requirement from TESU and CharterOak, it's going to a lot cheaper/quicker to do business and general studies type degrees at UMPI when starting from scratch.

So there should be a wave of new people from DegreeForum doing UMPI this year.

I agree - also because the price at $1400/term it's a bit more palatable.  Even though it's more per week, it's still easier to come up with $1400 than $3500 if you're paying it out of pocket.