Ridiculously Easy Associates Degree - Purdue University Global

[Tedium]

I’ll make a thread in the degree planning section now that I’m home.

I really, really, really don’t want to do another math course. I am that terrible at math that I almost didn’t make it through ALEKS. They don’t accept ALEKS anymore, so I would need to take another one.

Let me start typing up my credits.


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[LevelUP]

Purdue is still a gold mine for IT certs.

W3 PHP cert is 7 courses or 39 credits  (4 UL or 24 credits)
Google IT cert is 3 courses or 15 credits
That's 54 credits total which you could do in 1-2 weeks.

You have around 35 credits of General Ed you can do Sophia/CLEP/Purdue.

I would suggest that people go for the Bachelor's since the time and cost difference is small compared to the associates.

Surprisingly, I don't think we had anyone yet that has done a Purdue Professional Studies degree.  Making a degree plan should be pretty easy.

[rachel83az]

Thank you for responding. No , I don't have graded RA credits yet. I have looked at the Pierpont AAS just for personal hoorah's but am unclear about the 12 RA credits. I've read only one needs to be graded, but I've not heard of any that aren't graded so that's confusing. I read in one of the threads that the school actually viewed some of the Sophia ACE type credits as RA . I can't find that information now though. I'm in the long rows of preparing for a degree at UMPI, hopefully, and loathe the idea of slogging through 4 more classes to get RA credits when I'll be staring down the barrel to do the 30 cr at UMPI and am trying to get through this Study.com BIO L. ( not loving it ) I am curious about the PUG associate though, mostly so I can pass on the information.

TECEPs count as RA credits at other schools, but they are pass/fail (not graded). UExcel exams are graded, but they're exams and don't count at Pierpont. The cheapest way to fill the Pierpont requirement is either the FREE Clackamas credit (not self-paced and limited places available) or the new $25 1-credit class from ASU. Fill everything else out with Sophia, Saylor, and/or the Google IT certificate. That's it. Pierpont has a bit of an odd definition as to what counts as RA and what doesn't.

If you've gotten everything done to be able to enroll at UMPI, you've probably met all of the requirements for Pierpont already. Except the 1-credit.

[uncapentin]

Thank you for responding. No , I don't have graded RA credits yet. I have looked at the Pierpont AAS just for personal hoorah's but am unclear about the 12 RA credits. I've read only one needs to be graded, but I've not heard of any that aren't graded so that's confusing. I read in one of the threads that the school actually viewed some of the Sophia ACE type credits as RA . I can't find that information now though. I'm in the long rows of preparing for a degree at UMPI, hopefully, and loathe the idea of slogging through 4 more classes to get RA credits when I'll be staring down the barrel to do the 30 cr at UMPI and am trying to get through this Study.com BIO L. ( not loving it ) I am curious about the PUG associate though, mostly so I can pass on the information.

TECEPs count as RA credits at other schools, but they are pass/fail (not graded). UExcel exams are graded, but they're exams and don't count at Pierpont. The cheapest way to fill the Pierpont requirement is either the FREE Clackamas credit (not self-paced and limited places available) or the new $25 1-credit class from ASU. Fill everything else out with Sophia, Saylor, and/or the Google IT certificate. That's it. Pierpont has a bit of an odd definition as to what counts as RA and what doesn't.

If you've gotten everything done to be able to enroll at UMPI, you've probably met all of the requirements for Pierpont already. Except the 1-credit.

Geez, I keep forgetting TECEP's are p/f but RA. I pretty much do have everything except the one graded credit and am close to being able to enroll at UMPI. I was hoping for the March date to start but just don't know if I'll be able to rock through the few more courses I'm finishing. 
  Thanks for the help.

[ss20ts]

Geez, I keep forgetting TECEP's are p/f but RA. I pretty much do have everything except the one graded credit and am close to being able to enroll at UMPI. I was hoping for the March date to start but just don't know if I'll be able to rock through the few more courses I'm finishing. 
  Thanks for the help.

I don't know that TECEP's transfer to UMPI. I've searched the transfer credit database and have never found any of the TECEP's. What courses do you still need to complete your degree at UMPI?

[rachel83az]

I would think that TECEPs transfer to UMPI, but maybe nobody who has taken any has transferred to UMPI (yet). It doesn't really make sense to go through the bother of registering for TECEPs when it's so easy to meet requirements with Sophia. Which means that we probably need to find someone who started taking TECEPs before UMPI became "a thing" and who also wants a UMPI degree.

[carrythenothing]

BUS-311 (Business in Society), COM-210 (Public Relations Thought and Practice), ETH-210 (Environmental Ethics), and MAR-322 (Sales Management) are only available as TECEP exams and they're in the UMPI database.

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BUS-311 transferred in as BUS 3XX, COM-210 as COM-2XX, ETH-210 as ENV-2XX, and MAR-322 as BUS-3XX

[Jazzfish]

Pretty curious about the associate in professional studies just to get a degree that allows me to pursue some educational goals.

I'm not from the US.

Would anyone be able to recommend a plan or a strategy on how to go about this in the most efficient manner?

Thank you all in advance.

[rachel83az]

Pretty curious about the associate in professional studies just to get a degree that allows me to pursue some educational goals.

I'm not from the US.

Would anyone be able to recommend a plan or a strategy on how to go about this in the most efficient manner?

Thank you all in advance.

It sounds like the best/fastest way for most people to do this would be to get the W3Schools PHP certificate (which, apparently, doesn't actually require knowledge of PHP because it's all open book anyway) for 39 credits + Google IT Professional Certificate through Coursera for 15 Purdue credits or 44 credits alltogether. You need a total of 90 credits (same as 60 credits at some other schools). 

For gen ed requirements, you need: English Comp I, English Comp II, Math, Arts/Humanities, Science, Social Science, Public Speaking, 2 gen ed electives. As far as I'm aware, Sophia courses should work fine for these requirements, even though they're 4.5 credits. You just need to make up the missing credits so everything totals up to 90: https://purdueglobal.sophia.org/ 

• For English Comp I, take Foundations of English Comp. That one's actually pretty fast and easy.
  
• For English Comp II, it looks like they accept English Comp I @ Sophia. It's not the fastest course, but it's not as bad as their English Comp II.
  
• Math is easy: Algebra @ Sophia. 
  
• Arts/Humanities, take Ancient Greek Philosophers at Sophia (need for Ethics, see below). 
  
• Science, Environmental Science @ Sophia. 
  
• Social Science: pick one of macroecon, microecon, US History I, US History II
  
• Public speaking: Communications 101: Public Speaking at Study.com. Or you could try it at Sophia, but that one can be quite slow to complete.
  
• 2 gen ed electives: Intro to Ethics (this will be useful for most US Bachelor degrees) + some other Sophia Math, Humanities, Science, Social Science course that does not have Touchstones. You can see which ones have Touchstones here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List I suggest Human Biology, but that's up to you.
  

Between Sophia and the certs, that should bring you to around 84 credits. Add the 5 courses that you have to take at Purdue and you'll have a bit over 100 credits, which should get you your degree.

I forget if it's already been posted, but full degree requirements for the Associate are here: https://catalog.purdueglobal.edu/undergr...tudies-as/

[ss20ts]

Has anyone actually completed this associates degree? Just wondering since it's supposedly "ridiculously easy".

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BUS-311 (Business in Society), COM-210 (Public Relations Thought and Practice), ETH-210 (Environmental Ethics), and MAR-322 (Sales Management) are only available as TECEP exams and they're in the UMPI database.

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BUS-311 transferred in as BUS 3XX, COM-210 as COM-2XX, ETH-210 as ENV-2XX, and MAR-322 as BUS-3XX

Those are basically general electives. They're not applicable to a degree program for the major, minor, concentrations, or GEC. Not sure they're worth the time to study for the exam for just general elective credit if one is going to attend UMPI. Also these were accepted in the past. There's no guarantee about the future. They've made a lot of changes this year as to how credits are transferring in.