Life Experience College Degree?

First of all, I’d like to ask if college degrees based on life experience are as well recognized as degrees earned by a traditional college education?
If so, then I’d like to ask about college accreditation. I found a university online that offers life experience degrees.
They say they are fully accredited, by the following two organizations:
Board of Online Universities Accreditation (BOUA), and
Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation (UCOEA)
Are colleges/universities accredited by those organizations considered good enough by most employers in the United States? I need to know that if I get a degree from this school, that it would carry as much weight as a degree I could get from a traditional accredited college/university.
Many thanks.

4 comments to Life Experience College Degree?

  • iSpeakTh

    Err, those are ‘made up’ accreditations. I can just open up my own accrediting firm and online institution in a State that doesn’t prohibit such things and offer you a ‘lifetime’ degree with the same statement. Just print yourself your own degree if you’re going to do that. No difference, and you save yourself a ton of money. Otherwise, go to a real college and start at the bottom like everyone else does.

  • Barry auh2o

    No. A “life experience” degree is not a real degree.
    If you have “life experience”‘ then you should have no trouble taking the course, maybe you could breeze through the finals, or not even have to attend the course.
    But EARNING something is far more praise worthy than being GIVEN something.
    In my opinion!

  • H

    NO, life experience degrees are BS. If you want a recognized degree then you need to go the traditional college/university route. My advisor talked to me about those degrees and pretty much said verbatim that it was a waste or money and time. Also, I’ve never heard of those two Accredidations before, they may very well be made up.

  • Rebelban

    Honestly, a life experience degree is not going to be taken seriously by most employers. Also, acredidation does not matter to employers as much as what school you went to. If an employer is looking at resumes then a guy who went to Stanford will always have the advantage over “On-Line U” There are some employers who don’t care where you went to school, but just want you to have a degree because it is a job requirement, so that may be the type of job you want to look into, but be careful because a life experience degree will more often than not be looked at as a fake degree. Also, on line colleges are not nearly as respected as traditional colleges.

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