Do officers take time off and go to school for a master's degree/etc. on campus or is it the norm to do graduate school online and while in service full-time?Son #1 did his masters during his first and second duty station after pilot training. It was a blended program through Florida International University. They met one evening a week but had a full-time course load that was done online. When he moved to Korea they waived the in-person class time for the last two months of his program and he finished it there. A masters is a requirement to continue moving up ranks after O-4.
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All the services have their own grad schools that some of their officers will be assigned to as a student. Generally,Do officers take time off and go to school for a master's degree/etc. on campus or is it the norm to do graduate school online and while in service full-time?
It depends. There are 3 ways you can do graduate school -Do officers take time off and go to school for a master's degree/etc. on campus or is it the norm to do graduate school online and while in service full-time?
Do officers take time off and go to school for a master's degree/etc. on campus or is it the norm to do graduate school online and while in service full-time?
It should also be noted that USAFA has a program for graduates to do a one year 'bridge' program at Vanderbilt University and get their Bachelors Degree in NursingFor USAFA, roughly 10% of the graduating classes have the opportunity to go to grad/med/dental school after graduation. I was fortunate to be one of them in my class back in the day. Plenty of others (as noted above) do grad school while on active duty, mostly online, but some do weekend courses. Depends on your career track and training usually.
Are you a STEM Professor or a College Freshman?I see a lot of prospective grads posting here that they received < 3.0 GPA and wanting to know if they have a shot of getting into grad school. A lot of the responses people post are the same, but I thought I'd post my thoughts on this as a summary. Source: I'm a STEM professor at an R1. First, I want to give a bit of a background into my process. I get > 30 applications to work with me every year, so I don't have time to look really carefully at each one. The first thing I do is run through the applications and immediately ignore any with < 3.2 GPA in their last school. You can see the immediate problem here -- I'm unlikely to even spend much (if any) time reading your application and looking at the subtleties -- I flag your application "no" and move on. There are a few exceptions to this:
I think the OP was intending to quote someone else with the anecdote about a STEM Professor, but I cant be sure?Something isn’t right…