Colorado Technical University

BS EE at UCD? Can I get your opinion?

I am soon going to graduate from ITT Tech with an associates degree and I'm looking to continue on for a bachelors degree. I am interested in going to University of Colorado Denver but I read online that my credits will not transfer. It's my fault that I didn't do the research about these kinds of things. Think it will be possible to fight them to transfer a least something? I'm deciding if should start over and go for the bs ee degree at ucd or if I should transfer to another institute that accepts my credits like Devry or Colorado Technical University. I researched the schools and read a lot of reviews on the two tech schools. I found a lot of bad reviews and some good ones, however, some of the good ones doesn't sound convincing but they're a few that do. They both have the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) but some companies may still not hire from those schools. So I'm leaning towards going to ucd because it has good reputation and accreditation. I was told that there is a fine line between education and experience. I'm not experienced enough to understand if most or all companies would rather hire a person from a tech school with experience then a person from a university with none. I was thinking that if I do go through with ucd, I would try a co-op or get an internship to gain experience and hopefully that way I'll have a better chance of a good career. I'd also like to add that the bs degree at ITT Tech might be an option but I'm kind of avoiding it because of the cost and the reputation with companies. It has the same kinds of reviews as Devry and CTU. I'm not sure how much it would be for CTU but at Devry it would cost about 25k and get a bs degree in a year and 2 months. ITT Tech will be about 33k and a year and 9 months. For that kind of money, i could get 4 years at UCD instead of 2. Any advice is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance. To sum this up, basically I trying to decide if I should either go to ITT, Devry, or CTU for a bachelors OR go to UCD for Bachelors. My goal is to land a good job and career. I know that I have to gain experience in order to obtain that goal but unsure if most companies would base their decision by ones educational background.

Public Comments

1. Your credits will not transfer to a traditional University but you could look at other ITT tech campuses and see if there is a bachelors degree for your program. Employers don't really care if it is a tech shool or not they just care if you have a degree and that you know what you need to know for the job you are applying for. Hope this helps
2. Not really sure what kind of advise you are looking for from your question but as a Denver transplant who has spent over decade in this city and who as graduated from both CU-Boulder and DU I would highly recommend that you try and obtain your degree from a traditional school such as UCD-- if your credits will not transfer then look at attending CCD for a further two years and then transferring to UCD or to another four-year school. CCD in-state tuition is around $1K for 12 credit hours and UCD is about $4.5K for 12 credit hours-- both are much less per year than the prices you are quoting and at the end of it all, you have recognized degree which holds a lot more value.