CIP Codes Warning

[rachel83az]

Oh, this is very important information for the people who come here asking for advice about degrees for immigration. How do you see what the CIP code for a given degree even is? I had no idea this was a possibility.

Update: confirmation from registrar. BSBA CIS doesn't technically exist in programmatic terms. It has the same CIP code as the basic BSBA and is a general business degree. The CIS concentration is an "in name only" thing.

Given the other techie-type degrees are all coded as multidisciplinary studies, anyone coming to the forum looking for STEM-type degrees for migration/military/fed employment purposes would likely need to do BA Comp Sci.

How painful! And infuriating. It definitely sounds at least marginally fraudulent. Looking at the list, I just... wow. 

No Math. No History. Biology is just... generic science, I guess?  (Doesn't bode well for students who might want to continue to a Biology Master's abroad.) The AS Computer Science is just a generic Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies degree, I guess? (The ASNSM is just generic sciences, which I kind of expected, TBH.)

For a lot of students here, probably none of this matters. But there are plenty of international students (or students who hope to move abroad) for whom this matters a lot. I wonder if this is why TESU essentially has "????" in Anabin.

Honestly, I'm mad about this. I feel misled. We've wasted over a year on my partner's stuff at TESU, he's only a couple classes away from finishing the BA Math and BSBA CIS. Except it's not actually a BA Math legally. They've just named it that, for... fun?

Have you decided what you're going to do? Maybe add a BACS to the BA Math? It adds more time, but at least it is what it says on the tin. Otherwise, that's just... disheartening.