<p>so has anyone actually considered enrolling in the school of professional and continuing studies schools that are at every ivy league (or other institutions as well)? is it legit? is it still the same as a getting an ivy league degree? i'm still undergrad (in my last year) so i wouldn't be doing that yet ( maybe after i graduate) but i was looking into some of them and for the ones i looked at they didn't have any degree programs i was interested in. who are these continuing educations schools for? like which demographics? i definitely want to get a traditional undergrad bachelors degree first and then maybe i'll consider it later.</p>
<p>Continuing education programs vary widely. Some continuing education programs do not award college credits, rather they award CEU (continuing ed. units) that are used as evidence of maintaining ones status as up-to-date in a given professional field. Some continuing ed programs award only undergraduate credits, and still others also offer graduate level credits. Some programs will award CEUs or college credits for the same course depending on the tuition one pays. </p>
<p>At some programs it is possible to earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a limited number of majors. Often the degree title is along the line of Bachelor/Master of Liberal Studies. Other institutions offer more majors, more degree options (such as Certificate in X) usually in business-related subjects that are designed to advance employment.</p>
<p>At some institutions the courses are taught primarily by regular faculty members. At others they are taught primarily by adjunct instructors hired by the course. And, of course, there are places that fall anywhere in between.</p>
<p>Some programs are only evenings, weekends, distance-ed, and summers. Others allow access to a certain number of regular daytime courses depending on the degree or certificate being pursued. </p>
<p>Because these programs are primarily evening, weekend, and distance-ed, the largest group of students enrolled is comprised of people who are working, and who are taking one class at a time for fun, to gain particular work-related skills, or to finish up an unfinished college degree. In the programs that award bachelor’s or master’s degrees, there will be some students who are attending full time in order to earn that particular degree, but for whom the evening/weekend/distance-ed model works better for their lives.</p>