09-20-2016, 10:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2016, 10:57 PM by cookderosa.)
I spent a little time investigating the Hospitality Masters. It's 4 edX courses @ $150 each followed by an on-campus requirement at the Hong Kong Poly-Tech University.
In short- the micromaster is interesting. Only $600, which is about what I would pay for a high quality CE program, and this has potential graduate credit - whether or not it's realistic for many people to follow through, I don't know. So, I looked at it a bit more.
In this MS, there are essentially 11 courses required. The 4 from edX consist of 2 core and 2 electives. You can only use 1 elective, so the other is "wasted" in that regard, but that leaves 8 to complete. As best I can tell, the entire degree is $25,000 US which is roughly $2200 per course. The edX courses "save" you $6600 which is awesome. The remaining portion is about $18,500. Certainly not a bad price for a masters, and for a young adventuring person, I think it's pretty great. School of Hotel & Tourism Management
EdX is showing 19 micro masters options. A handful are taught in French or Spanish. I think it would be an interesting project to write a summary of each program, I might do that if I get a little free time this week.
One more point, there is a lot of variance between what the receiving university will accept, costs to follow through with the full masters, and entrance requirements. There is even variance in the cost to do the edX portion.
In short- the micromaster is interesting. Only $600, which is about what I would pay for a high quality CE program, and this has potential graduate credit - whether or not it's realistic for many people to follow through, I don't know. So, I looked at it a bit more.
In this MS, there are essentially 11 courses required. The 4 from edX consist of 2 core and 2 electives. You can only use 1 elective, so the other is "wasted" in that regard, but that leaves 8 to complete. As best I can tell, the entire degree is $25,000 US which is roughly $2200 per course. The edX courses "save" you $6600 which is awesome. The remaining portion is about $18,500. Certainly not a bad price for a masters, and for a young adventuring person, I think it's pretty great. School of Hotel & Tourism Management
EdX is showing 19 micro masters options. A handful are taught in French or Spanish. I think it would be an interesting project to write a summary of each program, I might do that if I get a little free time this week.
One more point, there is a lot of variance between what the receiving university will accept, costs to follow through with the full masters, and entrance requirements. There is even variance in the cost to do the edX portion.
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