UMPI

[Stoic]

You cannot finish a BLS or a BAS degree at UMPI and a second degree. Not even if you graduate and reapply. They are considered terminal degrees. I am in the BLS program which is a Bachelor of Liberal Studies. I'm not uber thrilled with this because I'm thinking IT jobs in the future. How many people outside of us and academia knows what a BLS is? You have a minor in the BLS degree. You can actually have multiple minors.

I could understand not being able to get a different degree and then getting a BLS (like TESU does). But not being able to get another degree after obtaining a BLS seems odd to me. A BLS is often considered by people to be the "easy" non-specific degree that you get when you have no ability to get a "real" degree. Note: this is NOT my opinion - it is simply something I have heard over the years from random sources. I know that you have to work just as hard for a BLS as for any other degree but not everyone else realizes this.

The people who think that way are mostly kids who have never actually worked, or stay at home moms and dads who never actually got a career going and they still think that the type of bachelors they get determines their worth in the market place.

No one, absolutely no one will give a flying you know what about your degree if you're already working and have some experience. They don't care if it's a BLS or BA, or BS etc. As a matter fact most companies will not even verify if you actually have one or not.

It's just a check in the box to get through a filter now in days. With that,  a BLS from a state school is totally fine. It doesn't matter.  Now, if those "degree elitist" were 18 years old and in competition to get into UPENN with dreams of landing some "elitist" position in Wall Street after graduation, then that's a different story. For them a BLS from a state school would be the opposite of what they need, since in that game it's all about the value of your initial credential early on to get through the hiring filters. But if you're like 30+ and you have been working for $15 dollars an hour for the past few years, then even a degree from UPENN won't make a difference in 2020 over a BLS from UMPI, just get anything and you'll see some improvements in your life. But at 30+ is all about your working experience and what you have done, you're not a kid anymore.