New to the game: PUG questions

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For some reason, they dropped their Masters down to three, I wonder what happened to the MSIT and there may have been a couple or more that is not showing up anymore: https://www.purdueglobal.edu/student-exp...-learning/

Oh wow, that's very interesting. As of November, the ExcelTrack versions MSIT and MS in Cybersecurity Management were listed on that page. Now, they're both gone.  

In fact, here is the former link to the ExcelTrack MSIT page, which was working as of mid-January but now simply forwards to the regular MSIT page. And I just went through enough screens of the PUG application to verify there is no option for MSIT ExcelTrack there either (but the MBA and BSIT still have ExcelTrack options).

That looks pretty definitive to me: MSIT and MS in Cybersecurity Management ExcelTrack seem to have been killed off.

I gotta say, I'm pretty shocked. I just started MSIT ExcelTrack in the January 3rd term (which happens to end today), and I've heard nothing, not even any rumors (which there were about the change from 6-week to 10-week MSIT terms). My assumption is they'll let the current MSIT ExcelTrack students continue with their modules, at least for a while, but I wonder for how long. Fortunately, I only have one module left, and since I haven't gotten any notice about the term that starts tomorrow, i assume it's proceeding as normal.

This is a massive change to the value proposition for a MSIT at PUG. With my 28 credits of cert/UG credit, I'll be able to get my other 32 credits for under $4000 on ExcelTrack. Without ExcelTrack, those same credits would have cost about $14,000. For the full 60 credits, the cost would now be over $25,000.

Wow thanks guise, so much to learn. VERY interesting!

I can definitely see the appeal of speeding through. In my case they're all about me having a bachelor's degree and community college over lots of programs and having a master's degree isn't enough, so I was looking at BS in IT or BS in Analytics, but then I figured maybe I can do a bunch of transfer from my Canadian community colleges into Bachelor of Professional Studies.

This degree has a bunch of open-ended "you decide" slots which I could cram with transfer credits then use the rest of the slots with courses which would also qualify to BS in Analytics degree, AND get alum discount for the BS in IT/BS in Analytics. Then I do the master's in analytics (only open to PUG Alum I'm told) and/or MS IT.

I gotta go to Vegas again and really win big, because these are premiums, but the coursework... any comments on the coursework? From paper it seems solid in the BS or MS degrees?...