07-15-2021, 03:02 PM (This post was last modified: 07-15-2021, 03:03 PM by mahaganapati.)
Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I discovered this forum from a comment on HackerNews. I dropped out of college many years ago but have been working professionally as a software engineer for the past few years due to a lot of luck. I'd like to change that and have an official CS degree (though I do have self directed CS education).
Anyways, the UMPI YourPace CS degree sounded exactly perfect for me. I sent an email enquiring yesterday about when it may be available. I got the following reply, which is disappointing. Maybe it's possible that Ms. Rice is not informed about the YourPace program, or maybe the original announcement in this thread was either a misunderstanding, or it was not actually approved.
The attachment reads:
Quote:Thanks so much for your email! I'm not sure whether UMPI will offer the Computer Science degree as a YourPace program in the future, but that's not the case right now. I will certainly let our Academics team know, though, about your interest should Computer Science be added to the YourPace lineup. Thanks very much,
Rachel
Rachel Rice
Director of Marketing and Communications
Marketing and Communications Office
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(07-15-2021, 03:02 PM)mahaganapati Wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I discovered this forum from a comment on HackerNews. I dropped out of college many years ago but have been working professionally as a software engineer for the past few years due to a lot of luck. I'd like to change that and have an official CS degree (though I do have self directed CS education).
Anyways, the UMPI YourPace CS degree sounded exactly perfect for me. I sent an email enquiring yesterday about when it may be available. I got the following reply, which is disappointing. Maybe it's possible that Ms. Rice is not informed about the YourPace program, or maybe the original announcement in this thread was either a misunderstanding, or it was not actually approved.
The attachment reads:
Quote:Thanks so much for your email! I'm not sure whether UMPI will offer the Computer Science degree as a YourPace program in the future, but that's not the case right now. I will certainly let our Academics team know, though, about your interest should Computer Science be added to the YourPace lineup. Thanks very much,
Rachel
Rachel Rice
Director of Marketing and Communications
Marketing and Communications Office
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Ms. Rice is well knowledgable about the YourPace program. There is NOT a CS program in YourPace at this time. There maybe in the future. They didn't even have an on campus program until January this year! If you looked at the YourPace website you'd see there is not a CS degree at this time.
(07-15-2021, 03:02 PM)mahaganapati Wrote: Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I discovered this forum from a comment on HackerNews. I dropped out of college many years ago but have been working professionally as a software engineer for the past few years due to a lot of luck. I'd like to change that and have an official CS degree (though I do have self directed CS education).
Anyways, the UMPI YourPace CS degree sounded exactly perfect for me. I sent an email enquiring yesterday about when it may be available. I got the following reply, which is disappointing. Maybe it's possible that Ms. Rice is not informed about the YourPace program, or maybe the original announcement in this thread was either a misunderstanding, or it was not actually approved.
The attachment reads:
Quote:Thanks so much for your email! I'm not sure whether UMPI will offer the Computer Science degree as a YourPace program in the future, but that's not the case right now. I will certainly let our Academics team know, though, about your interest should Computer Science be added to the YourPace lineup. Thanks very much,
Rachel
Rachel Rice
Director of Marketing and Communications
Marketing and Communications Office
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Yeah! I got an update on it too! They told me that they want to add it, but they don't have enough interest for it to be viable yet.
07-15-2021, 03:13 PM (This post was last modified: 07-15-2021, 03:15 PM by rachel83az.)
Strange that she doesn't know if it's going to be offered when they've already signed off on offering one. Hopefully, it's just missed communication. You could start working towards a UMPI CS degree anyway. Then switch to a TESU degree if you want to continue ASAP but it's still not available from UMPI.
(07-15-2021, 03:11 PM)ashkir Wrote: Yeah! I got an update on it too! They told me that they want to add it, but they don't have enough interest for it to be viable yet.
That seems odd. It's hard to show interest in a program that literally doesn't exist yet!
I know that we've had multiple people wanting their CS degree but it's just not available.
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(07-15-2021, 03:13 PM)rachel83az Wrote: Strange that she doesn't know if it's going to be offered when they've already signed off on offering one. Hopefully, it's just missed communication. You could start working towards a UMPI CS degree anyway. Then switch to a TESU degree if you want to continue ASAP but it's still not available from UMPI.
(07-15-2021, 03:11 PM)ashkir Wrote: Yeah! I got an update on it too! They told me that they want to add it, but they don't have enough interest for it to be viable yet.
That seems odd. It's hard to show interest in a program that literally doesn't exist yet!
I know that we've had multiple people wanting their CS degree but it's just not available.
It's NOT been signed off on! People online jumped the gun and assumed it was a done deal.
@mahaganapati - Welcome to the board and don't be alarmed or disappointed just because UMPI doesn't have the degree you're looking for. Another CBE competency based education option would be WGU, you can max your transfer up to 90 credits, I can see people doing up to 84, 87 credits from alternative providers before deciding to go for their BS Comp Sci or their Software Development degree. Turn that frown upside down, don't fee bad, be glad there are options now that were not available before... In regards to the YourPace program, it may come out later, so start working on what you need that can transfer to both UMPI & WGU.
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(07-15-2021, 03:18 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: @mahaganapati - Welcome to the board and don't be alarmed or disappointed just because UMPI doesn't have the degree you're looking for. Another CBE competency based education option would be WGU, you can max your transfer up to 90 credits, I can see people doing up to 84, 87 credits from alternative providers before deciding to go for their BS Comp Sci or their Software Development degree. Turn that frown upside down, don't fee bad, be glad there are options now that were not available before... In regards to the YourPace program, it may come out later, so start working on what you need that can transfer to both UMPI & WGU.
If they haven't seen interest in the self paced CS program, maybe the interested parties should reach out to UMPI to demonstrate their interest directly. Also refer them to this thread so they can see all the interest that's been building.
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(07-15-2021, 03:10 PM)ss20ts Wrote: Ms. Rice is well knowledgable about the YourPace program. There is NOT a CS program in YourPace at this time. There maybe in the future. They didn't even have an on campus program until January this year! If you looked at the YourPace website you'd see there is not a CS degree at this time.
Of course I've checked the current YourPace listings. I had asked Ms Rice if there were any plans for the CS program to be available sometime in the future through YourPace.
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