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Full Time cert or Part time degree?

unreggd · 2010-08-17 01:49:03

I'm back to college in Sept and cant decide what to do The computing course I wanna do comes as a Full Time 2 year Higher Cert, which you can automatically progress onto an ordinary degree (3 years), or an Honours Degree (4 years) The same course is 3 years Part Time for a Bachelor of Science in Computing So, on paper, 2…

17-08-2010 01:49AM

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I'm back to college in Sept and cant decide what to do

The computing course I wanna do comes as a Full Time 2 year Higher Cert, which you can automatically progress onto an ordinary degree (3 years), or an Honours Degree (4 years)

The same course is 3 years Part Time for a Bachelor of Science in Computing

So, on paper, 2 years Full Time = Higher Cert, and 3 years Part Time = Bachelor (degree?)

Obviously on paper a degree looks better than a Cert

But the higher cert covers a lot more modules

E.g you do Software module 1-6 on the cert course, but you only do 1-2 on the part-time degree

Financially, Part Time is looking way more doable, but I dont wanna end up coming out with "half" a degree if you get me

Heads melted, so any advice would be amazo

cheers!!

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