Concentration and Minors on Diploma

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I've taken all of the courses for the MIS and Project Management Minors on YourPace and I know I am not at all prepared to join the land of IT except in project management. I am not prepared to work in databases, analyze analytics, or program. Yet, I've completed all of those courses at UMPI. The on campus courses are DRASTICALLY different than the YourPace courses. BUS141 which is Introduction to Project Management with Microsoft Project. is an entirely different course on campus. We never touch Microsoft Project in the YourPace version. In BUS245 Programming for Managers you don't actually learn how to program. You don't even learn a single language. Yes, your Final Assessment is creating a program with the instructions given but that class is a cluster f as my professor called it. Like I said, you're not really prepared for these things unless you already have experience or knowledge from outside of YourPace. You're not prepared to go from a school bus driver to a developer or DBA.

Again, you are correct. I don't see that the degree is an IT one per se. And I'm not saying that it prepares you for an IT career! (In fact, most IT bachelor degrees are weaker than a good bootcamp or udacity nanodegree!). All I'm saying is that some people do NOT need the degree for preparation. Check my comment again.

With regards to YourPace being inferior to the on-campus: I don't see why this is the case only with regards to the IS portion of YourPace! If it is THAT bad, then all majors, concentrations and minors will be affected.

I now remembered a guy that I met before. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and another master's degree in Cyber Security from SNU, the #1 ranked university in South Korea. Yet, he can barely write HTML code! and he does not work in IT at all.

I know what your comment was. You have posted repeatedly that the YourPace degrees should be considered IT degrees because a degree at TESU is one. You're comparing batteries to apples. 

YourPace isn't designed to instruct you like the on campus programs. YourPace is designed to test your knowledge which is not what takes place on campus. Also the course content is VERY lacking in many classes. The course names in YourPace rarely match those on campus. The course descriptions are on campus courses not YourPace. This is something I have told them repeatedly they need to correct. Both issues actually - the course names and the descriptions. 

Or course a guy who isn't working in IT can barely write HTML.....you lose it if you don't use it.