How does the post-baccalaureate certificate program compare with certification programs?
They’re not really directly comparable. The post-baccalaureate certificate program is not a certification program; the computer science fundamentals that we provide will last a lifetime and be applicable over a broad range of fields. Microsoft (or Apple, or Oracle, or Cisco, or whoever) certification tends to be extremely product-specific. Thus, one might be certified as a Microsoft Network Administrator by taking a set of specific classes and passing a test. That doesn’t mean that one knows much about networks in general, though. Rather, one knows lots about how to edit a configuration file and set options X, Y and Z. A student who studies ICS, however, will understand how networks work (if they take that particular course) in general. Faced with the task of configuring a Microsoft network, they’d have to read lots of documentation to fill in the gaps in product-specific knowledge. However, if they were then assigned to configure a DECNet or some other network, they’d know what was go
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