Any Brandman Students?

[Brownie82]

Brandman University is one of the few schools that offers competency-based programs.

I remember they had a partnership with Saylor to accept their non-ACE/NCCRS-approved courses. I don't know what they mean by ACE recommendations for the courses listed on their page. Most of those courses are not ACE-approved.

I was curious about that, too. On Study.com's Brandman page, it looks like you'd take the courses and accumulate credits on your Saylor transcript. Saylor will send that to Brandman to apply to the degree.

Just a quick note about Saylor courses - there are some that are just terrible. My husband took the Networks proctored exam, and was seriously frustrated, as there were many wrong answers on it. Another poster here experienced the same thing. You may want to read about that before you get all hot and heavy on the Saylor stuff; if you are hoping for some "easy" credits, they may not be as easy as you think. My husband has worked in IT for almost 20 years, and had a bunch of certs couldn't pass the exam, and it's not because he was wrong - the exam was. He figured that no matter how much he studied for it, he didn't think he could pass an exam that had incorrect info on it (and I'm guessing he's right).

Not trying to tell you not to take them, just beware of the issues going into it. But obviously, you should still try to complete as many credits as you can.

And thanks for the heads up about their courses, I haven't taken any from Saylor yet, but I did read that review post. I figured I'd try it out. If anything, I'd learn something new that I can use once I actually start the program and fly through that competency/unit/etc.