Should I stay in my University or go back to my old community college?

<p>I am VERY poor right now. I am taking out an enormous amount of loans just to stay afloat financially. Also, in the University that I am attending, the classes all take place from 9 to 5. This makes it very hard to actually work and do class since most jobs are in this daytime frame. Also, my bus system in my town has to be the worst ever! I live in Jacksonville, Florida and it is THE LARGEST city in the USA in terms of landmass. Now because Jacksonville is so big, and because it is so spread out, it makes transportation in this town almost impossible. It literally takes me about 1 hour and 45 minutes to 2 and half hours just to get from one place to the next. Plus, the weekend transportation system is so bad that it takes me 3-4 hours just to get from one place to another. Considering how bad my transportation situation is, it is very hard to both work and go to school right now. Also, because I am a computing major, I have to study a great deal of time just to be able to pass my classes. </p>

<p>Anyway, now that you know that. I am strongly considering going back to my old community college (that now offers Bachelor's degrees) and just enrolling in their B.A.S. program in Information Technology. The only drawback is that they offer a B.A.S. degree and I believe that is a terminal degree that I can't get a masters with, and I might want to eventually go back for a masters. However, they offer online classes, and they offer night classes and it would be easy for me to work and go to that school, unlike my University that I am currently attending. This makes me really want to go back. I am desperate to get out of poverty right now, and am in a very delicate situation. I don't want to go into so much loan debt that I can't get out either,and my old community college is a lot cheaper than my current University. Please give me your advice.</p>

<p>What year are you ? What degree are you pursuing now ? What is your career goal ?</p>

<p>Is this the Florida State at Jacksonville program? I don’t see why you couldn’t go to grad school with that degree, although if you try to pursue a CS or engineering Masters, you’d probably have to take some extra prerequisite classes.</p>

<p>@mitchklong</p>

<p>I am in my junior year of college. I am pursuing a degree in information science. I want some type of job working with computers making good money, I just really haven’t decided what yet. Right now, my main goal is to get out of poverty without going into so much debt that I can’t get out of it. </p>

<p>@simba9</p>

<p>Yes, this is the Florida State College at Jacksonville program. I wonder if I could really go to grad school with that degree? I mean it is technically a bachelor’s it’s just a bachelor’s of applied science in information technology. What I am really afraid of is that I don’t have enough financial aid left to go back to the other school and pursue a different degree. Is there a way that I could look at my records and find out?</p>

<p>What the heck gave you the idea that you couldn’t go to grad school with a B.A.S.? I was looking at the program requirements and can’t see anything that would keep you from getting a masters. In fact, I don’t know of any bachelors degree where you couldn’t go on to grad school.</p>

<p>Grad school isn’t as hard to get into as you think. Most graduate programs want more students than they have, and computer-related graduate programs value students who have a few years of relevant work experience.</p>

<p>I’m afraid I can’t answer questions relating to financial aid. I just don’t know enough about that.</p>

<p>@simba9</p>

<p>That’s ok that you can’t answer my questions about the financial aid. My old school at Florida State College at Jacksonville can answer those questions for me. I just didn’t know whether I couldn’t get into grad school with a BAS degree, and apparently I can.</p>

<p>If you are Jr you may have met the residency requirements for your current school. If you have, and you can find transfer equivalencies at your community college, you can take classes there and still graduate with your information science degree.</p>

<p>Well me see how it goes first. Let me just see if I can pass these classes first. If I can then I don’t really have to worry about all this. I guess I will update this thread in about a month.</p>