Basics Regarding Life Experience Degrees

By Jill Faulkner


On the web, there are many advertisements that offer the opportunity for people to easily and quickly earn a graduate or undergraduate life experience degrees. Yes, a degree for the things experienced through living. These opportunities sound too good to be true and in many cases, 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.

As a default reaction, individuals who are offered this type of degree should believe it to be a red flag. Experiences can make an individual wise, but this sort of knowledge does not transfer into a degree. Most of these offers are not valid, but there are some instances in which they may be legitimate, a little bit.

No, individual cannot earn a degree that is credible based on your life experiences. Sadly there is no accredited university or college in America, or many other countries, that offer these. Accreditation, in short, refers to a type of peer review in which representatives from accredited educational facilities judge other schools on the quality of their educational programs.

A person can earn bachelors or associates degrees if they can demonstrate previous learning. This is often done through traditional ways, such as portfolios, credits awarded from examinations and transfer of credits. This is the more formal route and usually the best way to go about earning these credits. If an individual can show valid proof that he or she has been taught the same as what is learned in college courses, he or she can earn credits that may be applied toward an undergraduate degree.

Prior learning assessment is not the way to earn a full degree and will not be effective when applying for graduate programs. All accredited masters and doctoral degrees are based on new learning. A person may be given a few extra graduate credits through prior learning, but there is usually a limit put in place by the educational facility.

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 sound appealing but are not feasible. There are many non-accredited institutes that advertise these quick and easy degrees. The reality is that these are often scams and individuals should proceed with caution when approached with such an offer. Still, there are some educational institutes that allow for prior learning assessment. If an individual can prove he or she has learned something to the equivalent of what is taught in a college course or program, he or she may be granted college credit or even an undergraduate degree.




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