Udacity AI Project Management MBA

[Jakehazex21]

Udacity just dropped an MBA in AI Product Management, accredited through Woolf. Runs on their $250/month subscription model, so sticker price lands around $5,000 but with their regular discounts you could realistically finish for $3,000 to $4,000.

I might look into this one for my own trajectory. Practical AI product strategy without needing to write raw code is appealing for anyone trying to get into tech in a post-Claude code world.

Woolf accreditation, so take that for what it is. Curious what y’all think.

https://www.udacity.com/mba-ai-product-management

[Sagan]

Woolf also offers a DTech in A.I. with Exceed.

[SteveFoerster]

What Woolf is doing is genuinely interesting, so I really hope that they stabilize their status with Maltese regulators.

[bjcheung77]

Udacity prerequisites I would recommend are the balanced trifecta of certs, degree, experience.
Complete cheap, easy, fast, ACE/NCCRS credits from Coursera, EdX, Sophia.org, Study.com, etc.
Basic math & statistics background + Foundational programming knowledge (such as Python).
Anyone thought about completing both the double MBA AI PM and MSAI at the same time?

The question is, because their MBA AI Project Management and their Masters AI have some overlapping...
This may work out to be a cheap, easy, fast, self-paced, double Masters for under $5K for both!
Pay 2x enrollment fee of $199, a monthly membership with 15% off plus 50% off individual discount.
You just need to then take the capstones, together, tweak it to max the energy/efforts into both.

[bluebooger]

what is Woolf

and how can anybody be excited by a degree that isn't regionally accredited and basically sounds like some udemy certificate

who would would accept this on a resume

[wow]

what is Woolf

and how can anybody be excited by a degree that isn't regionally accredited and basically sounds like some udemy certificate

who would would accept this on a resume

I'm not sure if these are actual questions, but assuming that they are actual questions:

1. Woolf is a university in Malta, a European country
   
2. US regional accreditation is irrelevant here because Woolf is Maltese and accredited in Malta under Maltese regulation/legal structure
   
3. Probably somebody, although for many employers, I would assume labeling the degree as from Woolf and not mentioning Udacity would look nicer on a resume because it would lessen confusion with Udemy
   

[Sagan]

what is Woolf

and how can anybody be excited by a degree that isn't regionally accredited and basically sounds like some udemy certificate

who would would accept this on a resume

Woolf is a university registered in Malta.

As a non-U.S. institution, the acceptability of its degrees will depend on successful evaluations from foreign credential evaluation services. That is, in situations where someone will ask. Most will not. 

Another factor will be learning outcomes.

They could do with a better name.

[bjcheung77]

what is Woolf

You missed this thread that explains everything: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...ngineering

[eLearner]

Woolf is a university registered in Malta.

As a non-U.S. institution, the acceptability of its degrees will depend on successful evaluations from foreign credential evaluation services. That is, in situations where someone will ask. Most will not. 

Another factor will be learning outcomes.

They could do with a better name.

Yeah, I never quite understand why people expect foreign schools to have American accreditation. I also think the foreign credential evaluation matter is way overblown, and I was guilty of that myself for a while, but I've changed course.

While getting an FCE is obviously necessary in situations like transferring credits or being accepted into other programs in a person's home country, if they're not doing any of that then there is no need for them to worry about it. Employers almost never ask for that, don't care, and wouldn't even know what it is. Because we come to places like this forum and are so locked-in to this type of knowledge, we can make the mistake of thinking the whole world is, too.

After seeing how foreign credential evaluation companies like ECE, IEE and WES (perhaps the "Big 3") routinely show that they have no consistency and often no clue what they're doing, I'm to the point that I've lost a great deal of respect for the industry. It also doesn't help that NACES is nothing more than a weak, no-account membership dues-collecting organization that does no enforcement even when its member agencies move egregiously.

As for Woolf's name, agreed, the name is weird. It looks weird and sounds weird. But we have our share of weird school names here in the U.S. as well. Goucher (pronounced GOW-CHUR) comes to mind as one of the most awful school names of all time. If anything, it just sounds like a way to get hurt.

[SteveFoerster]

Yeah, I never quite understand why people expect foreign schools to have American accreditation. I also think the foreign credential evaluation matter is way overblown, and I was guilty of that myself for a while, but I've changed course.

While getting an FCE is obviously necessary in situations like transferring credits or being accepted into other programs in a person's home country, if they're not doing any of that then there is no need for them to worry about it. Employers almost never ask for that, don't care, and wouldn't even know what it is. Because we come to places like this forum and are so locked-in to this type of knowledge, we can make the mistake of thinking the whole world is, too.

Yeah, these forums tend to have a herd mentality about such things, and one that changes very slowly.

As for Woolf's name, agreed, the name is weird. It looks weird and sounds weird. But we have our share of weird school names here in the U.S. as well. Goucher (pronounced GOW-CHUR) comes to mind as one of the most awful school names of all time. If anything, it just sounds like a way to get hurt.

Virginia Woolf is a famous literary figure, so it's not like it's a preposterous name. I'd be more cautious of their one year accreditation renewal by Maltese regulators than anything else.