Masters level credits from Sophia and others?

[jch]

On a side note, I did find free graduate-level Introduction to Internet of Things courses through Stanford online:

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xee1...net-things

That's a non-credit course

[NotJoeBiden]

On a side note, I did find free graduate-level Introduction to Internet of Things courses through Stanford online:

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xee1...net-things

That's a non-credit course

Weird. Only credit for their grad cert. Classic Stanford offering “free” education.


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Joe

[Airamb]

Idaho State University professional development offers a variety of low-cost graduate credit courses in a variety of education topics. One has to hold at least a bachelor's degree and be involved in education to enroll (self-disclosure). I took a course in athletic injuries that was self-paced and very good quality overall! The final grade after passing the final exam was an S for Satisfactory and awarded/transcripted 3 graduate credits. I have no idea if another school would accept these courses in transfer. They offer a $200 scholarship for your first course. They appear to be liberal on the "teacher qualification" to include not only licensed k through 12 teachers but perhaps substitutes, adjuncts, college professors, coaches, tutors, homeschoolers, etc because they don't ask or require proof of a teaching credential although I hold one. https://www.isu.edu/onlinepd/

[bjcheung77]

I wonder if those ISU classes can be used for transfer, as these are professional development, even though they provide an S for graduate credit... Interesting to say the least... It may work like VESI classes or something similar, prospective students will need to consult the admissions team for the school they intend to get credits from...

[housecat]

Wondering if this is a thing.  Cursory look around not uncovering anything

Thank you for this question, I was wondering the same. I am still deciding to take a bachelor or do another masters instead. PUG is a bit tuition-spicy for me right now, but in the future I might take the MS IT. Still, if I could find at least some transfers into another masters, maybe I could swing that.

I think if it's your first masters, and you wanted to self-fund (cash/line of credit/etc.) and you wanted business or IT, the UK is also a place to look. I wanted online data analytics and wow, there is a lot of variation in tuition-spicy and curriculum-spicy. The level of spice varies a lot between the universities, wildly, some are business-oriented, some are tech-oriented. Match with what's you've already learned in your bachelor's and decide if there are filler courses that extend out of your desired outcomes, because you only get so many courses.

Just a quick note, if you contact a university in the UK the lingo is a bit different. A program (Business Management Programme) is a group of courses (MSc Business Management, MSc Supply Chain, MSc HR) which each contain their own modules (Intro to HR, Transcendal Calculus III, Accounting II, etc). Programs contain courses which contain modules. Sometimes there are no programs per-say and it's just courses with their modules.

Prices in the UK will be in pounds sterling and the off-hand word for a "pound" is "quid." Like "...when I went to the market, I bought the groceries for 25 quid!" Heh like "squid" but drop the "s." It's a catchy word after awhile. I performed all of my assignments with English United Kingdom in the spell checker. Other than that, no problemas!

Also as a side-note, WES Canada is pretty good for verifying a lot of the universities I have looked at thus far and for the one I attended. The way to find these diamonds in the rough is to Google search such as "masters degree data analytics online uk" seemed to work for me with this word-soup.

[jb111]

Thank you for this questionile.... I performed all of my assignments with English United Kingdom in the spell checker.......
Fun response!  I will check out the UK.

[housecat]

Thank you for this questionile.... I performed all of my assignments with English United Kingdom in the spell checker.......
Fun response!  I will check out the UK.

For the UK/EU (All have excellent reputation):
Expensive:
- University of Cumbria (cumbria.ac.uk): solid curriculum
- Northumbria University Newcastle (http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/)

Not-as-expensive:
- Wrexham University (https://online.wrexham.ac.uk/online-programmes/): Keeps rising to the top, excellent pricing, curriculum maybe a bit light though, but I can always learn more later and get the credential now kind of thing. I read classes are ASYNC and best tuition on my list... Used to be called "Glyndwr university which shows up in databases here and there)
- University of Aberdeen (https://on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/): Yep like I went to Robert Gordon University located in the same city and met the UAber reps in person, seems solid curriculum, pricing is a bit upmarket but still viable. Interesting options such as Data Science and Geographical Information Systems. Even has "taster" courses which you can try out without fully comitting to the program (full tuition price, but for credit and interesting).
- Abertay (https://online.abertay.ac.uk/programmes/)
- Arden (Germany/EU, https://arden.ac.uk/our-courses/qualification/masters)
- Wolverhampton (https://online.wlv.ac.uk/online-courses/)
- Hertfordshire (https://online.herts.ac.uk/fees-and-funding) getting up there $$$ wise though
- Edinburgh Napier University (https://www.napier.ac.uk/courses?mode-fr...ing&ps=100): Maybe yes, maybe no...
- University of Sunderland (https://online.sunderland.ac.uk/online-courses/)
- Keele University (https://online.keele.ac.uk/online-programmes/)

Canadian Universities (Always and forever expensive to infinity):
- Memorial University of Newfoundland (https://www.mun.ca/): Curriculum and academics always strong at MUN, cheapest university in Canada, and still expensive
- University of Fredrichton (https://www.ufred.ca/): Not bad for MBA, know a friend who went through the "global leadership" stream. UFred seems receptive to transfer credit and is recognised by Canadian student funding agency. A lot of synchronous+group work though. Time intensive.

United States Universities:
- Purdue Global ("PUG"): Not cheap, but the Purdue brand name, ooof that's nice. A favourite here on the forum and I can see why. After chatting with Success Advisor I have to get my Canadian credentials reviewed and etcetra, but maybe yes, maybe no. Strong curriculum, concentrations are excellent, but cannot stack them in a credential/graduate with multiple concentrations, but can take courses which are free-range/"open electives."
A lot of things feel right about this university, they accept Canadian students, but I found out today that because I don't have a bachelor's degree (skipped went into master's) I cannot be accepted into an MSc, but would be accepted into a BSc, and they can approve up to 75% of transfer credits for a 4-year degree, so mix in what I already can transfer in, do the rest using the DegreeForum planning (Sophia/Study.com/meow) and go from there, so that would leave a 1-year comitment to a bachelor's. Hard choice, but at least it would be an unstoppable bachelor's degree. The one thing I'm not overly keen on is these are syncronous courses in the evening. I really do like async courses so I don't have to attend classes when they want me to, I can attend when I am able.

Anyway this is the shortform, but a lot of things vary such as curriculum (not always a bad thing as noted above), pricing, feelings, instructions methods, etc.

[bjcheung77]

There are many ways to get a Masters of your choice, it really depends on how you want to slice things around and your budget, energy, time, etc. I would focus on a mix/match of the three and look for the personalized ROI/Value aspect of things. So for example, you're looking at a Level 7 Diploma and then Top-Up to a Masters of something, you can do the ENEB MBA/Masters combo and evaluate it from UK ENIC/NARIC as a Bachelors/Masters combo, then get a Level 8 diploma instead, here's an example thread: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid412920

[origamishuttle]

- Purdue Global ("PUG"):
...but I found out today that because I don't have a bachelor's degree (skipped went into master's) I cannot be accepted into an MSc...

Have you considered going for your bachelor's degree at UMPI before moving on to the PUG MS? It will probably be easier to max out your transfers, giving you a better chance to complete the required 10 courses at UMPI in a single 8-week session for $1,500.

[davewill]

On a side note, I did find free graduate-level Introduction to Internet of Things courses through Stanford online:

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xee1...net-things

That's a non-credit course

Weird. Only credit for their grad cert. Classic Stanford offering “free” education.
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Joe

It's the same for a lot of the EdX programs. You can take the low cost courses (even grad courses), but they don't turn into credits unless you are accepted into the sponsoring school and complete their, often very pricy, program.