Are these small-time colleges worth it? Bachelor's Degree in 30 months?

JakeT.

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I'm enrolled at Boise St for next semester but since I registered late for next semester, my schedule is coming together like a giant turd to put it nicely. Lots of wasted time in between classes... and my house is 20 minutes away so not really worth driving back and forth.

Anyway, I was gonna tough it out but just saw an advertisement for a smaller school called Stevens Henager College which has only a few locations in Idaho and Utah and offers very few Bachelor degree subjects...

They give you a laptop to use while you are there and it appears extremely affordable.

Anyone know anything about these tinier schools?
Are the credits transferable to Boise St if I sit out a semester?
Would a degree from this place mean jack crap?

Figured I'd ask since I've never heard of them and it seemed like a decent alternative to having a messed up semester's schedule.

 

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did u find a matching shirt yet on ebay?

 

JakeT.

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steak tartar said:

did u find a matching shirt yet on ebay?

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arty:

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I heard you can start your own university online now. Is that true?

 

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jakethompson said:

I'm enrolled at Boise St for next semester but since I registered late for next semester, my schedule is coming together like a giant turd to put it nicely. Lots of wasted time in between classes... and my house is 20 minutes away so not really worth driving back and forth.

Anyway, I was gonna tough it out but just saw an advertisement for a smaller school called Stevens Henager College which has only a few locations in Idaho and Utah and offers very few Bachelor degree subjects...

They give you a laptop to use while you are there and it appears extremely affordable.

Anyone know anything about these tinier schools?
Are the credits transferable to Boise St if I sit out a semester?
Would a degree from this place mean jack crap?

Figured I'd ask since I've never heard of them and it seemed like a decent alternative to having a messed up semester's schedule.

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Go ask BSU. Also, make sure it is accredited. If you can make it work for a couple years, better of at BSU.

If you already have an AA, then go to BSU, if just starting Community College and take classes you know will transfer.

 

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It's a pain in the ass talking to someone at BSU right now to be honest. Counselors are almost impossible to find and I can't figure out where to go to find anyone since the student union building is being remodeled... Makes it tough.

 

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whose ned a degee wen u can pik winers at cixtyfve percnt?

 

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Francis Sollozzo said:

whose ned a degee wen u can pik winers at eigty percnt?

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Haha let me get to work on that 80%.

 

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^ I downgraded it to 65%

 

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You will be the big man on campus and get all the puzzy

 

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WVU said:

You will be the big man on campus and get all the puzzy

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This school looks small enough where I might be the only man on campus. Really small-time.

 

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jake the only thing you need to be concerned about is accreditation, if the school isn't accredited your degree won't be worth the paper it's printed on.

here is a resource for ya

http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html

 

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jake.....take a look on boise website....there will be something called transfer equivelency (sp?) and should list a lot of colleges around boise that show what classes will and will not transfer.....you could probably get by with taking your prereqs....but i doubt it will accept a higher level class....

 

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ground hog11 said:

jake.....take a look on boise website....there will be something called transfer equivelency (sp?) and should list a lot of colleges around boise that show what classes will and will not transfer.....you could probably get by with taking your prereqs....but i doubt it will accept a higher level class....

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Hmm it may be an issue then. I tested really well on my entrance stuff and was put into sophmore and junior level classes my first year and have almost all the non-degree crap out of the way.

 

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ground hog11 said:

jake.....take a look on boise website....there will be something called transfer equivelency (sp?) and should list a lot of colleges around boise that show what classes will and will not transfer.....you could probably get by with taking your prereqs....but i doubt it will accept a higher level class....

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This specific college is not listed unfortunately. Looks like that just about answers my question. Thanks for the help everyone.

 

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I'll tell you some real world advice, well from my world anyway - there are many jobs where a college degree is a requirement but it would be rare for someone to really analyze what school it was from. Of course there are exceptions - if it is a job requiring a security clearance or a background check for instance - but many times it is just a formality to get in the door. I have seen jobs where there were 100's of applicants and the people screening the applications literally just check off a box for 'degree' if it is listed on the person's resume. A lot depends on what you plan to do with your degree, where will you be trying to find work?

Going a little further, I have seen plenty of resumes, some where I hired people, who had 'questionable' college careers - meaning schools that I thought had bad reputations or ones that I knew were basically correspondence schools. If you have some experience or other qualities that could definitely make up for not having some prestigious degree.

The one thing I would say about any degree is at least it shows you can start something and finish it. Assuming you get decent grades it might show you actually learned something too.

I would definitely advise being honest though, I have also seen people who bullshit about various things on their resumes and they usually get busted sooner or later.