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From: troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly)
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Subject: Re: The need for an advanced degree
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Date: 13 Jan 89 02:26:39 GMT
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In article <532@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> gordon@eecea.UUCP (Dwight Gordon) writes:

>  BE CAREFUL!  When I was looking at graduate programs (around 1982) I came
>to the conclusion that graduate credits transferred about as well as lead
>floats! :-)  A degree seems to transfer well, but many schools use graduate
>credit requirements (especially at the Ph.D. level) as a revenue device.

  As a fairly extreme example of this, here at UCLA working people may
take graduate courses by petition. This is administered by university
extension, but they are the same courses the regular graduate students
take. *Exactly* the same: same profs, same students, usw. Nonetheless the
university only allows you to "transfer" 2 courses taken this way for
graduate credit!