And I.T.T. is accredited by Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).
Meh. Doesn’t mean anything if a university won’t accept those credits towards a higher level degree. And I’m willing to bet that very few, if any universities would. A quick look at some of the schools accredited by that organization and they all seem to be for-profit trade school types.
Well, duh! :dubious:
It’s only the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
Lemme guess: you squeaked past “reading comprehension” at a CC. :rolleyes:
And BTW, you can get a 4yr. degree at I.T.T. Maybe not at every campus, but the school does offer 'em.
Whether it stacks up against a 4yr. from a CC, municipal, or state institution is the more relevant question.
For that I would say that it might depend more upon the employer, the employee candidate, work history, and the interview.
The point of having accreditation is give legitimacy to the education that ITT and other independent schools provide. It doesn’t mean that that degrees or credits offered by those schools are automatically given the same weight by a university or CC who are typically accredited by a different organization, and therefore are transferable, as you seem to have implied in an earlier post. The fact is, few -if any- of the degrees/credits offered by any of these schools is recognized outside of their own system. I’m willing to bet that few credits are even transferable between independents with the same accreditation. This, plus the fact that an ITT education is quite expensive in comparison to an equivalent CC or university degree makes it a poor value overall, in my opinion.
That doesn’t mean an ITT degree is a sham. Their programs generally are more focused and accelerated than an equivalent CC program. Whether the added cost of this benefit is worth it depends on an individual’s particular career goals personal/life situations. I am one who tends to put more value on having an education to build on and grow as career/economic/life situations change. An ITT degree is definitely more limited in that regard. Hell, for the cost on ITT AA or AS degree, you could obtain a Bachelors degree at most public universities. Yes it would require more time and commitment. It all depends on what you trying to achieve and where you might want to head in the future.
Using the numbers Epimetheus cited about for a CC at $85/credit hour for a 69 credit hour CC 2yr degree would run you $5,865. Roughly 1/6th of the cost of the ITT degree.
ITT runs at 44 weeks per year. Keeping that same sort of schedule would mean taking a summer semester at CC (assuming typical semesters are 15 weeks), which gives you 3 semesters per year. Assuming 3 classes per semester and 3.5 credit hours per class, you would have 63 credit hours in two years. You’d be nearly finished.
I attended a state school in Ohio that ran roughly $10,000 per year. For only a few thousand over what ITT charges for its 2yr program, you could get a 4yr degree from a state school.
No one is saying ITT is a bad program. It’s a question of what you want to do with your education and how much you want to pay for it. My husband has had no trouble getting technical jobs with his ITT credentials. Companies here appear to recognize and respect that ITT trained technicians are valuable employees. However, he will never be able to do anything other than technical work without further education, and his ITT training will not enable him to go to a conventional college and get a 4yr degree in two more years. It doesn’t transfer. Yes, ITT offers a BS program, but we don’t have a spare $35,000 lying around. We’re still paying for the last 2yrs.
I know the feeling. Let me know how job prospects are when you graduate. I didn’t go to school for like 8 years after I graduated high school, and I am kind of regretting going the University route. Sure, I imagine I can find a higher paying job with a B.S from a University than I.T.T, though I don’t know how much more. Even if it is 10k more a year, is it worth it when I am spending nearly 5 1/2 years getting that education? (Oh, and like 60k - I pulled out extra loans above tuition)
I didn’t imply anything. What I said here is:
I simply related something that I’d heard.
Epimetheus asked for a cite. Talking to my friend the ex-banker (yuk-yuk), I had misunderstood/misremembered his statement. He’d been talking about transferring credit (as in loans, lines of credit) from one school to another; not course credit.
My apologies for the mistake.