College Degree in 4 weeks

[Viking]

Check this website out : www.bain4weeks.com

It has a lot of good info and resources on earning a regionally accredited college bachelors degree by challenge exams through,

Charter Oak State College www.cosc.edu
or
Excelsior College www.excelsior.edu
or
Thomas Edison State College www.tesc.edu

I doubt you can do it in 4 weeks but the ability to get a college degree entirely through challenge credit is amazing! These schools also accept credits from other regionally accredited schools, so if you were close to finishing but didn't quite get there, check it out!

 

[20/20]

Maybe not really worth it...

As a former pilot interviewer...the airlines all know of these places, and their value is HIGHLY discredited.

I'm not saying do or don't take this route, just be aware that it may be of little real value in the selection process.

REALITY!

 

[Viking]

Perhaps the airline you interviewed for finds these Regionally accredited universities that are recognized by the US Department of Education to have no merit, but I think your blanket statement that "the airlines all know of these places, and their value is HIGHLY discredited" is full of crap!

Many airlines have hired pilots from these schools including:
FedEx
American Airlines
Alaska Airlines

and lets not forget the armed forces have commissioned officers with baccalaureates from these schools.

I've done interviews at airlines as well. The college degree from a regionally accredited school is a check mark in the application process and is not given much consideration beyond that.

 

[Viking]

First of all, I highly doubt anyone can finish a college degree in 4 weeks. Thats just the name of the website!

However, if one could finish in 4 weeks they probably have enough brains to stay out of aviation!

 

[pilotyip]

don't need a 4 yr degree

Why all the fuss, a 4 yr degree has nothing to do with flying an airplane. We all know fantastic pilots without degrees and absolutely terrible pilots with degrees. Fedex does not require a college degree, they give equivalent experience credit. i.e. a graduate of a military flight program is the same as two years of college. If you go to college learn something that will earn you a living like Nursing, Engineering, Teacher, CPA, etc.

 

[LittleDeuce]

Thomas Edison

I must take exeption to the implication that Thomas Edison State College is not on the up and up. Nothing could be further from the truth.

To be fair, I have not heard of the 4 week degree, but Edison is fully accredited and totally an above board learning institution.

 

[ReportCanoa]

Fedex does not require a college degree, they give equivalent experience credit. i.e. a graduate of a military flight program is the same as two years of college.

Okay, to whom might this credit apply?? I thought pilots were officers, and officers had minimum 4-year degrees.

 

[labbats]

Warrant Officers who fly rotary wing don't need a 4 year degree. But you're right about almost everyone else.

 

[CR7CAP]

Re: Maybe not really worth it...

As a former pilot interviewer...the airlines all know of these places, and their value is HIGHLY discredited.


I guess you should tell the interview board at Delta. A friend of mine was hired at Delta mainline with a "distance learning degree" from Thomas Edison.

 

[pilotyip]

Navy 2 yr program

In the 80's the Navy took pilots also with a 2 yr degree, and the Army has fixed wing Turbo prop and Jet Pilots with only a HS degree.

 

[jarhead]

Pilotyip

Can you tell me which turbo prop and fixed wing jet aircraft are in the U.S. Army Fleet? Do the C-130's that paratroopers jump from have Army Pilots? Guess I'm naieve here, but for all these years since the Army Air Corps became the U.S. Airforce, I thought helo's were all the Army flew.

Anyone?

Thanks

 

[Viking]

The Army flies C-12(King Air), Sherpa(some bus with wings not sure if spelled correctly!), I dont know about presently but they have had numerous other fixed wing aircraft,including;
Beech Queen air, mohawk, bird dog, beever, caribou, etc. If you ever get to go to the ft. Eustis, VA Army Aviation museum you'll be surprised at what the army has flown!

 

[jarhead]

Pilotyip

Not to be "picky", but there is no such thing as a High School "Degree" It's only a "Diploma"

I guess I find it very difficult to accept your statement that the Army has jet pilots with only a high school education. I know there are warrant officers who fly helo's, but h.s. jet pilots who are not commisioned officers.................? It takes a four year BA or BS in something to become an officer.

 

[pilotyip]

WO's fly jets

True you need a college degree to be commissioned, but then very little of the flying in the Army is done by commissioned officers. WO's fly all of the fixed wing airplanes in the Army G-5, Citation, Dash-7, F-27, C-12, CA-212, etc. And I personally know some who do not have a college degrees.

 

[jarhead]

Thank you for the information...........I just did not know. Even though I found it difficult to accept, I do accept your information as first hand and knowledgeable.

What do I know of Army aviation? I'm an old Marine enlisted guy, and that service is pretty much self contained in it's air wings; Helo's, Transports, Jet fighters, Carrier landings, et al. Back in the olden days of the USMC, in the late 50's the Marine Corps still had a few of a dying breed, that were known as "flying master seargents. A few of them were at El Toro when I was stationed there, and flew C-130's out of there.

 

[Skank]

OK, you guys are screwing this all up. Now, let me screw it up even more. The Army has made it a common practice to commission Warrant Officers these days (why? don't ask me). You don't have to have a degree to be a regular Commissioned Officer (ie 2d Lt.) You can go to OCS with as little as 2 years of college (if you're active duty). Warrant Officers are officers, maybe of a different breed, but officers nonetheless. Lots of Warrant Officers do have College degrees. And yes, the Army has turboprops and some jets. Confused yet?
The big difference is that Warrant Officers usually fly for their entire career-not true for the Commissioned (Lt and so on) types.

Discliamer: this was true when I was a CW2.

 

[jarhead]

Skank

Question for you on the subordinate, and or superior officer roles in the Army. I know all the reporting relationships on the Commissioned offcer and Enlisted ranks, i.e, 2nd Lt, 1st Lt, Capt. Major, Lt Col, Colonel, Brigadier Gen, Major General, Lt. Gen, etc.

Just curious. I am fairly certain, that a warrant officer of any grade (four levels, right?), can give a direct order to any enlisted person, even a Sergeant Major (although it might not be a 'smart' thing to do) where does the reporting structure of rank in the officer corps change. ie, can a newly minted shave tail Lt., give a legal, direct order to a Chief Warrant Officer? Or are all WO's above in rank to all enlisted, and below in rank to all commissioned officers?

 

[tittyjet]

If you drive through the University of Florida campus with your window down, they'll throw a diploma in your car.

Go Dawgs.