Jumat, 22 Maret 2013

Basics Regarding Life Experience Degrees

By Jill Faulkner


There are advertisements all over the web that suggest a person can quickly and easily earn life experience degrees at an undergraduate or graduate level. Yes, a degree that is earned just from experiencing life. These opportunities usually sound better than they are.

A lot of individuals are confronted with these scams through websites and emails. Often these institutes will request the test scores, credit card information, phone number, transcripts, and job reports from people with the guarantee to take care of everything else. Usually it is easy for a person to spot this kind of scam, but the reality is that there are people who fall for these.

If you are offered any type of degree based on your personal experiences, it should be a red flag. Although our experiences are known to make us wiser, it does not make us eligible for a degree. While most of these offers are not legitimate, there are some instances in which they may be, sort of.

No, people are not able to earn a credible degree based solely on life experiences. There are no universities or colleges in the United States, or most other countries, that allow for this. Accreditation is the term used to reference a kind of peer review in which people from accredited institutes evaluate different accredited schools to check the quality of their learning programs.

As undergraduates, a person can earn a bachelors or associates degree through demonstration of previous education. That is, transferring credits, getting credit through examination, or portfolio evaluation. This is more formal than credits for experience and is considered a legitimate way to be granted credit. If a person can demonstrate that he or she has learned something that is equivalent to what has been taught in a college class, then he or she may be eligible to earn credits that can be applied toward an undergraduate degree.

Prior learning assessment is not the ideal way to earn a complete degree and often it is void when it comes to applying for graduate school. All doctoral and masters degrees are based on new knowledge. A person is able to earn a few graduate credits by way of prior learning but often a limit is put in place by the institution.

If you did more research on the schools that offer these graduate degrees in experience, you may see a trend: these agencies have not be accredited. It is suggested that students do their best to avoid these scams. While students may be eligible to earn college credit and degree through prior learning, be a skeptic of programs that are offered through institutes that do not have accreditation.

Life experience degrees are appealing but not real. There are several institutes that are non-accredited and advertise these degrees as quick and easy to earn. Most of the time these are scams and so people should be hesitant when they hear these claims. Still, there are legitimate institutes that allow for prior learning assessment. In these cases, students who can verify that they have learned the equivalent of what is typically learned through completion of a college course may receive college credit or undergraduate degree.




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