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Re:University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:36PM (#23495781)
This sounds really interesting. Would you specify which state university?
Re:University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online... by non-entity on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:47PM (#23495834)
Sure, It's the University of Colorado Boulder Masters programs hosted through Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/msee-boulder

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/master-of-science-data-scie...

The fact that they're masters programs with performance based admissions make them even more suspicious to me, but if you're looking for bachelors programs like this I think the ASU bachelors hosted Coursera also has such an admission path.

Re:University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online... by barry-cotter on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:46AM (#23497913)
How far do they go on the performance based admission? Must you have a Bachelor’s to be admitted? I’m currently on my last year of my Master’s and did not fulfill the usual entrance requirements but CEFIMS will let you into their Master’s programmes sans Bachelor’s though there is a bit of hoop jumping and it’s difficult to do it in the two year minimum for students who start with a Bachelor’s.
Re:University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online... by non-entity on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:27AM (#23498530)
Nope, there's no bachelors degree required. I was actually pretty surprised by this when I first heard about it and I emailed them. In part of their response I quote:

Our program aims to make admission less bureaucratic (no degree, no GRE, nor recommendation letters, nor statement of purpose required), but we still are appealing to students who have the near-equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree, whether through academic study, years’ of industry experience, or, being self-taught to a high level. This is a rather rigorous program at the Masters level, equivalent to the content taught for many decades in our on-campus courses, but presented in slightly smaller pieces and in 8-week sessions, rather than 16-week semesters.

I have heard of people getting entrance to a Masters program without an bachelors degree, but not in technical disciplines and definitely not in a manner this open.

Re:University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online... by barry-cotter on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:57AM (#23499861)
Thank you. If I ever want another Master’s I’m going to keep this in mind.