Degree's and MBA's
Since we now have a few employees who are college bound, we've been looking at ways to make the college transition work smoothly for us and our employees. Note to budding CS majors: My high-school employees can run circles around my degreed employees. Not sure why, but I think it's passion.As a test, I started looking at places that I'd want to finish up my degree at. One possibility is to go back to Texas Tech for a few semesters. However, the last few classes that I need to take are all in the middle of the day, and missing one or two would mean failing the whole class. I own a company with clients and several products almost out the door, and missing 4 hours of the middle of the day is just not feasible.
Neumont University came about recently -- or, I started seeing ads for it recently (all over Slashdot). There's not much online about it, other than a few Microsoft employees who have given presentations there (it appears to be co-owned by Microsoft and IBM). Neumont might be a possibility for the CS employees.
University of Phoenix is, of course, advertising everywhere. However, I have more than 120 college credits, and they'll only transfer about 30 of them. Which means it will take me about $40,000 and 3 years to finish the degree. Why would I bother? And it's not cost-effective for recent employees.
I called and spoke with the Art Institute Online on behalf of our graphic artists. They have some interesting programs, but fall into the same "traps" as the others. Don't transfer hours, charge a lot per-hour, want up-front fees to verify MY information.
Westwood College is another one we checked out. Of all of the programs, I liked theirs the most -- perhaps it was because of the sales guy, or perhaps it was their alumni retraining program (if you graduate in CS from their school, you can return for re-training at no cost, for the rest of your life). Again, too much money, not enough transfer credits.
We've decided that the online schools still aren't quite there. The curriculum is good, but the cost factor is still astronomical for a e-learning place (in my opinion).
Interestingly enough, in looking at the various option, I ran across a post today from Seth Godin, referencing Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA. I own about 8 of those books (he did pick some good ones). I just might saddle up and see what I can do about getting the rest of them.
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