Credit for Industry Certs

[snazzlefrag]

Well I do not know what school you go to then. If you take a state school (practically anyone can get into), then you would not be able to test out of the 3 years of core classes.

Maybe if you do an online program or whatever, but even if you could, would it be worth the time and money? Would the degree really be worth as much as a traditional 4 year degree? Nope. All the factors I have talked about are going to come into play here. Accreddiation, employability etc.

For every clep I take at my school, I have to get 3 people to sign off on it. Most colleges only accept CLEP, and most schools are not going to allow you to clep anymore then 2 or 3 courses.

GRE is used for graduate school entrance, there is no testing out of a degree. That is absurd. If that was true, anyone could take a GRE course that teaches you how to crack the GRE, and everyone would just go ace the GRE. Then they would have a meaningless 4 year degree.

Hi Spazz,

Most of the members of this board are testing out of most, if not all, of the required courses that make up their degree.

CLEPs are all lower level and mostly general education type subjects. But there are several degree-specific exams too.

DANTES, ECE, TECEP, and OHIO State offer upper level exams as well as lower level exams.

If you can prove you know the subjects, it is possible to fulfill most or all of the requirements for several different kinds of degrees.

A majority of schools accept CLEP exams, and many schools are actually certified CLEP test-centers themselves. Usually, a college will accept up to 30 credits via testing. Some allow 60, and a very select few (three) allow you to test out of all 120 credits. As long as you are able to learn on your own, and can pass the required exams, you can earn your entire degreee through a combination of CLEP, DANTES, ECE, TECEP, OHIO and/or B&M classes.

The "Big 3" Regionally Accredited schools that allow you to test out of an entire degree are:

http://www.excelsior.edu

http://www.charteroak.edu

http://www.tesct.edu

Of course, this means that you have to be able to study on your own and master each subject sufficiently to pass up to FORTY different exams at the lower and upper college level. It's no easy feat. But it's doable, and many on this board are doing exactly that.

As for the GRE, there are actually two different kinds of GRE. There is the general GRE exam, which is what many colleges use to evaluate readiness for graduate study, and there are also the GRE subject exams. These are subject-specific exams which provide a means to evaluate whether a student has mastered all the individual subjects which make up their given major. For example, the GRE Psychology exam would test your knowledge of subjects like Social Psych, Abnormal Psych, Lifespan Psych, Research, Educational Psych, Behavioral Psych etc. These 'subject exams' are not the kind of exam you can just cram overnight for and pass. It takes a real depth of learning to prove that you have the required knowledge that goes with earning a major in a particular subject.

For this reason, some schools will award credit on a sliding scale based on how well you perform on the subject GRE. If you score higher than the vast majority of already graduated Psych majors who took the exam, it is possible to be awarded up to 30 credits towards your Psychology major. In effect, you have tested out of an entire major with one (admittedly mammoth) exam.

Hope that helps,
Snazzlefrag