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I am an Admissions Advisor the University of Liverpool's online Masters
degree programme, so I would say I probably cannot give you an
absolutely unbiased opinion, HOWEVER, I also have had personal
experience with another rather well know online study programme from
the USA as I live and work Internationally. I am proud to say that
since I started here I have really gained a lot of understanding about
online education and appreciate the research needed to determine the
right school and programme.

I do know for a fact that many companies are now paying more attention
to where a persons degree is from. Its easy for your CV to say you have
a degree, but having spoken directly to several decision makers, in an
employers market, it is in your best interest to look at the University
directly. Really consider the academic institution first. If it is a
great University, you should be able to expect that the online study
will also be of quality. The syllabi, grading, instructors,
dissertation expectations etc, should all be the same for the online
programme as it is for the on campus programme.

In speaking with many potential students, I hear the concern quite
often about the quality of online. How can it be as good as on campus?
I know that the online programme with the UoL has guidelines to ensure
that each student does receive the same high quality education. For
some people it is better to be in an International virtual classroom of
12 -15 students where you receive very close and personal attention
than to be in an on campus class of 50- 60 students or more. Again, I
work as an Admissions Advisor for the University of Liverpool, so do
not just take my or anyone's word for it, DO as much research as you
can before your decision.
For the UoL, check out the Virtual Tour so that you can see how it all
works. It becomes obvious that with the 20 average hours of work per
week it takes to complete the degree, logging in to your class room
about 4 times a week, really does provide a solid education. You will
do a lot of reading and group assignments and you will receive a
quality education. Certainly an academic institution that is over 100
years old, part of the UK's Russell Group, has 8 Nobel Prize Laureates
and has been classified as one of the TOP 10 in the UK is NOT going to
start an online study programme and not deliver. That would ruin their
reputation.

Virtual Tour http://www.uol.ohecampus.com/elearning/vtour.phtml
Facts and Figures http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/facts_and_figs/

I can tell you that as an Advisor I am more concerned with a potential
students motivation and preparedness to pursue a Masters degree. It
takes a great commitment that is based on having truly considered your
current situation.
Why do you want a Masters? Do you NEED an Masters? Have you considered
the time it will add to your work week? Have you researched the
descriptions for the classes, do they really provide what your future
plans require?

[Guest]

How about Wisconsin Madison ?

[Navin Kumar]

U Wisconsin at Madison is a decent school, well respected in the
midwest & west coast; new englanders tend to rank it below purdue. The
school you want to go to really depends on which part of the country
you want to work in - just as japanese rank Tokyo U far above MIT and
the usa ranks MIT far above Tokyo U, it's all a matter of locality.
Pick a _good_ school (top-20 in the nation) which is in the vicinity of
where you want to work. In terms of national recognition, among your
three schools, Purdue is best ranked, closely followed by Wisconsin
Madison, and there's a large gap between those two and UMass Amherst
(Umass Amherst may be top-50 but not top-20)

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[Drew]

Hi Michael:

If you are talking about graduate school, most US colleges do not
designate cum laude, magna cum laude, or suma cum laude students.
These are used only for undergraduate students. I didn't look any
statistics up to bear me out. But I would say that in the average
graduating undergrad college class in the US, far less thatn 10 to 15%
graduate suma cum laude. You might be able to find more with Google.

Drew

On 17 Jun 2005 22:01:39 -0700, dayzman@hotmail.com wrote:

[Guest]

Drew,

I believe Michael was referring to the "honours system" used in the
UK and other Commonwealth countries (e.g. Australia) that differs
somewhat from the Latin honors system used by some schools in the US.
Basically, in the UK for example, a course of studies leading to an
undergraduate degree like BSc, BA, BEng or MEng, is divided into
"Parts", each of which may correspond to one or two school years.
Student get a certain number of points for each "part", based mostly on
their grades in comprehensive final exams called "papers" (generally 9
or so per year) and, to a lesser extent, on classwork, lab reports and
projects. Depending then on the ratio between the number of points
assigned to a particular student and the maximum number of points that
can be achieved in his/her course, the student graduates with honours
(respectively at the "first class", "upper second class", "lower second
class", or "third class" levels), receives a simple "pass" (without
honours), or fails to obtain the degree.

Just as an example, the following link

http://www2.ee.ic.ac.uk/electricalengineering/teaching/GH56HonoursScheme.pdf

explains the assessment criteria for the MEng (4-year undergraduate
degree) in Information Systems Engineering (ISE) at the Imperial
College London. For other Electrical Engineering (EE) degrees, see

http://www2.ee.ic.ac.uk/electricalengineering/teaching/EEEAssessment0405Final.pdf

For a complete of list of classes, including third and fourth-year
electives that can be taken for both ISE and MSE degrees, go to

http://www2.ee.ic.ac.uk/electricalengineering/courses/crslistug.asp?c=NIL


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