Posted: 07.02.2009 at 11.57
To be truthful with over 170 credits in my undergraduate degree which was earned over 7 Univsersities and Colleges, it is how serious the department which advises you on your degree path are to their / your institutions pedagogic missions. It is this alone which is the final determined factor on whether a University / College degree is worth so much investment.
They key factors for which system to invest oneself is the institutions pedagogy, follow through by dedicated departments, the orientation frame of instructions each professors has in departmental wide facilitation of your final degree award and how you have likewise prepared and subsequent work on finishing your efforts to meet their resulting standards. Thus I have found my Geology component at Buffalo State College stood far superior to Cornell's standard, but not University of Rochester, New York, but at the sametime was able to stand up against University of Buffalo, and SUNY at Stonebroke, Binghamton, and Albany. Buffalo State College is totally invested in teaching pedagogy which grew out of the traditions of it being a teachers college before the state takeover.
With my previous life experiences along with the addition of education much later in life I can make this one very serious recommendation.
If you are not ready to advance your education do not let any others, especially peer pressure cause you to matriculate. It is the wrong thing to do. Take you time and take a fun look on life first. As in accepting what they are going to teach you demands of you a complete willingness within a mature acceptance of who you instructors are in terms of men and women. Then, and only then you are ready to be instructed.
I have found out as well as University officals themselves, that those who have had life experiences before college to be the best of students and have on many occasion help much younger students to find they way along in being confered a degree.
Mr. Roger M. Christian