Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!rachmaninov.CS.ColoState.Edu!olender From: olender@rachmaninov.CS.ColoState.Edu (Kurt Olender) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: The need for an advanced degree Message-ID: <983@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 13 Jan 89 16:17:54 GMT References: <8901041445.AA20933@decwrl.dec.com> <18730@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <911@wilbur.unix.ETA.COM> <5802@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <967@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <532@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <325@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Reply-To: olender@rachmaninov.CS.ColoState.Edu.UUCP (Kurt Olender) Organization: Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO 80523 Lines: 27 In article <325@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> troly@math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes: > > 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! The question here is whether or not you are in a degree program. The University of Colorado at Boulder accepts 21 hours of graduate credit from other schools toward a Ph.D. degree but I think you had to have gotten them while actually in a degree program. (It is another question as to whether or not that is fair.) They accept 8 toward an MS. This is a fairly recent development however. It had previously been the same 8 credits as the MS. The intent, of course, is to attract more qualified MS level people into their Ph.D. program by imposing less of a credit penalty for transferring. Each school is different, but it is helpful to know the right questions to ask. -------------------------------------------------------- |Kurt Olender | Computer Science Dept. | |olender@cs.colostate.edu | Colorado State Univ. | |303-491-7015 | Fort Collins, CO 80523 |