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Nordecke

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I work full time, 7 days a week to be more specific.

I have benefits available to me that would carry me through a College education. (I've tried College twice and both time had to stop because of something in the "real world")

Now though I feel more stable and willing to have another shot at it.

My work/commute schedule is from 14:00 - 00:00

I'm married and have a daughter.

The degree I want is a 2 year degree in Electrical Engineering:

-The Curriculum has it broke down in 4 semesters with 15, 18, 18, 18 Credit hours respectively per semester.

Is this to much? Is it possible or even worth trying? I am cruising for bruising I know but I'm curious to know how some of you would approach this.

Discuss.
 
2 divided by 4 would make it 6 months each. 'If' that's the case and the study hours is what it says above, it's what, a couple of hours of study a month?

That doesn't sound much to me so my assumption may be incorrect, but if you can get a degree for that level of study then go for it. Suspect that's wrong though.

I mean some of the MOOC courses I do on Coursera require 10 hours of study per week, and they're not for degrees or anything.
 

By the looks of it, I didn't have to break it down, the "Semesters" are broke into what I would call two Quarters/ or halves which is what I've done before..

Ohio no longer has "Quarters" so the idea is still the same, about 9 CH's a Qtr/ Half, 15/18 a semester.
 
Under 1 hour a week seems easily achievable, even if working full time. My concern is that it doesn't seem like much input in order to earn a degree. I don't know how much it's costing but you obviously want it to pay-off for you.

https://www.coursera.org/
http://www.udacity.com/
https://www.edx.org/

are three (free) alternatives if you just want to learn some stuff from high profile schools. As mentioned though, all seem to require about as much input in a week/fortnight as the Rhodes State course seems to require in 3 months, and these don't count towards a degree.

That's why alarm bells are ringing a bit. I mean check out what the Open University require from students

http://www.open.ac.uk/study/explain...your-qualification/how-much-time-does-it-take

For them, they suggest a part-time degree will take 6 years, with each year requiring around 600 hours of study, or in other words, each quarter requiring 150 hours of study. That's 10 times what Rhodes seem to want, yet with OU the degree would take 6 years vs 2 years for Rhodes.
 

If I understand it right, 1 CH would mean you meet for class 1 hour a week, every week through out the duration.

4 CH's is 4 hour's a week, every week.
 
Sounds like you are a lazy b'stard lad. Just get yourself signed up and do all the hours needed, and throw a few more in as well. Within 2 years you will have a proper degree ( not one of these wishy washy ones) and will make something of yourself, stop pissing around and go for it..........
 
peteblue said:
Sounds like you are a lazy b'stard lad. Just get yourself signed up and do all the hours needed, and throw a few more in as well. Within 2 years you will have a proper degree ( not one of these wishy washy ones) and will make something of yourself, stop pissing around and go for it..........
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Excellent point.
 

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