TOTAL: 45 Semester Hours

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Courses in this curriculum are to be taken in sequence as above.

Students must achieve a total minimum of 45 semester hours of graduate credits to be qualified for graduation.

Credit Transfers: Up to 45% of the total degree requirements may be met by appropriate credit transfer assessment and approval. The requirements for the Research Methods Course and the Masters Thesis Course/Independent Study Project, may not be met by credit transfer. All requests for credit transfers are reviewed by an Academic Administrative Committee. Transfer credits will be considered for acceptance from higher education institutes which are accredited by an accreditor approved by the US Department of Education, or are state licensed or approved to confer degrees. Students who have taken courses outside the USA, will have transfer credits considered if the higher education institution(s) have accreditation or approval by a country's Ministry of Education. Breyer State University-Alabama reserves the right to require applicants to have a degree evaluation of course and program equivalents for courses taken outside of the USA, by a credentialed degree evaluator. Copies of transcripts are acceptable for initial assessment. Once enrolled, official copies of transcripts must be forwarded to the university.

Prior Learning Assessment: Semester hours awarded through the Prior Learning Portfolio Assessment Project require students to complete a guided Portfolio Project providing definement, validations, and skills/knowledge validations, verifications of experiences and career/job accomplishments and correlations to scholarly course content completions. Students are provided full, comprehensive guidelines for creating their portfolios, along with one-to-one faculty mentoring.here is a limit of a total of 15 semester credits allowed by portfolio assessment.

All awarded credits by portfolio assessment are upon review and approval by a faculty mentor who is degreed and experienced in the area of the student's degree major. Up to 45% of degree requirements can be met via credit transfers and/or by Prior Learning Assessment Portfolios. Students must complete the remainder of requirements at Breyer State University-Alabama.

Masters Thesis/Independent Study Project: All masters thesis are reviewed by a committee of doctoral prepared faculty. Upon approval of the completed thesis, students must complete and pass a final defense examination given by their faculty mentor.

Advisor: Upon enrollment, students are provided an administrative advisor who works with the student throughout the degree program, providing advisement and facilitating communication with assigned faculty mentors for completion of required course work.

Faculty Mentors: All students are assigned a qualified faculty mentor who is degreed and experienced in the area of the student's degree major. Faculty mentors will review the student's completed prior learning assessment portfolios and determine approval or denial for the award of academic credits; and faculty mentors work with the students to complete course work in all of the Self-Design Courses and the Independent Study/Masters Thesis Course.

All courses in the degree program are facilitated via online classrooms. There are no travel requirements.

Degree Majors: In instances where a student would like to enter the degree program in a specific major that we do not have a contracted faculty mentor for; students may elect to seek out a qualified faculty mentor for their program. Students may present their selected faculty mentor to the administration who will work with the mentor and assess their qualifications related to the student's degree major. If the mentor is appropriately qualified, the mentor may be contracted by the University to be the student's faculty mentor for their degree program. Potential mentors are screened according to university standards and guidelines before being considered for work with the student.

Assessment: Prior to enrollment, students must have a full degree assessment completed. Applicants work with an assigned administrative advisor during the assessment process. Full details and required information and submissions are provided after an application is made for the degree program. The completed assessment details exact requirements for the degree.

This degree program allows the flexibility for self-paced work and completion. Students are provided a period of six years to complete their degree program. Extensions may be approved for appropriate reasons.

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The Preliminary Assessment is offered to all interested persons who meet the program entry requirements. There are no fees or obligations involved in having a preliminary assessment completed. All applications are assigned to an administrative advisor who works with the applicant to complete the degree assessment process. Only student's who have had an assessment completed may enroll in the degree program.

Course Completion Times: Students are permitted 15 weeks to complete a self-design course. This may be extended with the permission of the instructor. For the Independent Study Project, students are permitted up to a six month period for completion, or up to the end of the six year time-frame, as above.

TRANSFER CREDITS & EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CREDITS:Up to 45% of degree requirements may be earned by transfer credits from other schools. For detailed information please CLICK HERE

TUITION: $500.00 per course (SD 500 through SD 740). SD 790 is $600.00. Total tuition cost is $3,600.00

. Students may register and pay for one course at a time.

* Note: Tuition does not include textbooks.

** There is also a one time $50.00 admission processing fee.

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