UMPI YourPace Computer Science

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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:

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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Seems that I left off the  attachment. Trying again -

UMPI we don't know how their Computer Science will look.  It may end up being better or worse than TESU/WGU.

If you already got credits from college, TESU is a great option.

You're already a software engineer, don't expect to learn much by getting a degree.  The main courses that may be new to you will be Calculus, Discrete Math, Data Structures & Computer Architecture.

The hardest thing is coming up with a plan and getting started.  Sophia.org has a free trial with no time limit that allows you to explore the 1st lesson of each course as well as download the entire pdf of the course.