Accelerated Degree Program

Accelerated Degree Program: Getting Your Degree–Fast

How long do you think you need to get your bachelor’s degree?  Four years? Think again.  You can get exactly the same degree, but faster, with an accelerated degree program.

Are accelerated programs really the same degrees?  Accredited and everything?

Yep.  Well, of course you need to do the same research into the college’s reputation and accreditation that you’d do for any degree, before enrolling. But that’s a given.  There are indeed accelerated programs that are geared towards you getting your bachelor’s degree in half the time, or less, that are fully accredited and offered by reputable colleges and universities.

Aren’t the choices of available majors pretty limited though?

No way!  Distance learning has become so popular that a lot of the best programs are available online.  So you can almost certainly find an accelerated degree program in the major of your choice.  If your major is one of the less common ones, you might have to look a little harder–but it’s probably out there.  In addition to degrees like business management, English, and so on, you can find fine arts degrees, criminal justice degrees–no matter what your interest there’s bound to be an accelerated degree program for you.

So how do these programs work, usually?

Each one is different, so you’ll need to take a hard look at any program in which your interested, but generally speaking, an accelerated degree program will make use of accelerated college courses (these are courses which are 6 to 8 weeks long, condensing a semester’s worth of learning material), testing for credits (including widely accepted exams like CLEP and DANTES, and sometimes including departmental exams at the college itself), and recognizing prior learning (credits you’ve earned previously, or learning experience from your job or military training).