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0:10 The Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education has been around for over 70 years at this point. We began back in 1954 when Frederick Turman, who was then the dean of the school of engineering, created what is called the Honors Cooperative Program. And this program lives on today. We still support it. And this was an opportunity for working engineers at companies near Stanford's campus to enroll in Stanford mast's degrees in the school of engineering on a part-time basis. And the idea here was to encourage that kind of u that relationship between industry and the academy to allow working professionals to be able to pursue higher education while working. great benefit for the employees and a great benefit for the companies and allowing helping Stanford to bring some of that expertise from working professionals into the classroom and found that there's a really a virtuous a virtuous relationship there that really promoted and helped both sides of the coin.
1:08 Over the years we evolved so we moved from being only available to those adjacent to Stanford campus to broadcasting as the Stanford Instructional Television Network in the late60s. So we started broadcasting to companies in the Bay Area. That became a satellite network in the 90s and then in the mid 90s we we started moving online and we actually began delivering our first fully online master's degree in the late 90s. So the electrical engineering degree could be completed online. and at that time we changed our name. Many of you may know us for this as the Stanford Center for Professional Development. And in the past 20 25 years we grew as SCPD.
1:48 moving more and more of our operations and offerings online. And today or the last year we changed our name from SCPD to this to the center for global and online education to better reflect the way we had grown in the last 25 years. And today the majority of what we we offer is primarily online. Now, I mentioned that what Jonathan and I will be focusing on are credit bearing courses that are available to online learners. but I did want to give you a a sense of the full breadth of the offerings that are available through SIGO, which is the how we pronounce the acronym. So, you're looking at here is a full range of credentials. We'll talk about those yellow ones, but we we can start here with these these red ones. So, these are the professional programs and professional courses. So that's what we call them. You can think of them as nonredit bearing courses. They're generally open enrollment, meaning anybody you know you you don't have to be a member of a particular organization in order to enroll or apply to them. You'll find most of those on our Stanford online website and we have a variety of credentials depending on the rigor of the course and what's expected of you that you can earn through these professional programs and these range there are range of of the way these programs are presented.
3:07 Everything from the classic ondemand self-paced courses that you're probably familiar with as online courses to rigorous cohort-based courses that are actually based on the credit bearing courses but aren't for credit. So these might be 10-week courses that require 10 to 12 hours of work a week on a on a topic like product management or artificial intelligence and allowing you really rigorous in-depth understanding and mastery of some rigorous material or very technical material.
3:37 In addition to those professional programs we also offer as we said and what we'll be covering in more detail are these credit bearing programs. So I mentioned the honors cooperative program which still exists today. you know, it's a a flexible master's degree for students metriculate at Stanford to pursue their master's degree. Flexible way for them to pursue their degree. We also open up between 60 and 70 courses a quarter to what we call non-deree option students. So, these are working professionals who submit an application to us that we then submit to departments and who apply on a course bycourse basis to take courses at Stanford. and and the courses you can take are mostly within the school of engineering but some in the school of medicine. but these are graduate level engineering courses. You take them you're just like all the students on campus. It's the same course. You're taking it alongside those students though you're taking it as an online student. You're earning a Stanford transcript. And if you take three to four of those courses, some of them can stack into a graduate certificate, which is an accredited credential and is usually 12 to 16 units. We can get a little bit more detail there. And finally, coming back to kind of our origins, it's worth mentioning that we still do support many of the master's degree here in the school of engineering. And so a lot of the master's degrees at in Stanford engineering are available for students to pursue on a part-time basis with the option to do coursework online.
5:01 Again, for the most part, these are the same master's degrees and a student would elect to do them on a part-time basis. And again, the idea here is to give you flexibility in the way you pursue your degree. Now, you know, we'll touch on those. That's not the focus of today. and for those if you're interested in applying to them, it's the same. You're applying to the same degree. you'd be applying through the department to get into that degree and then electing to do it on a part-time basis and possibly online. We can answer more questions about those.
5:30 John, I see we have quite a few questions coming in right now. Should we pause and answer a few of those before we Yeah. >> Yes. yeah, we can take a couple of these. That's a good idea. yeah, Hesh has a question. Thanks, Hesh, for your question. can CEUs which are continuing education units from professional certificates be used for graduate credit? No, it's a different program. So CUS can't be used towards graduate credit bearing programs. >> And I see a question about the Knight Hennessy Scholars program. We do not operate or run the Knight Hennessy Scholar Program. So I' I'd reach out to that program directly if you have questions for it. That's not covered by us.
6:11 >> People can apply for it. It's just I think the deadline is coming up soon, probably like around about December time or maybe January, but yeah, you can look at that program, but it's it's not something that our organization manages or runs. >> I see a great question about our schedule and whether all courses will be available. this is a really good question. we can I I'll address it now briefly is if you are interested in a particular course and you want to earn a certificate our schedule can can change a lot year to year quarter to quarter. I see the particular course however that is being asked as asked about convex optimization one is offered usually twice a year so I I'm not sure why you're not seeing that open but we'll we'll go through that in more detail you know how how to see when a course is open but it's usually open in the summer and I'm trying to think of the other quarter that's typically offered >> I'll take the question on J exams packs so the question is from Alex what's the average J test range acceptable for you guys. best advice I can give you is to look at the department page. So, if you're interested in like a master's degree in electrical engineering, they have information about the GRM requirements on their page, sim computer science, etc. Some of the departments don't require a GRE. there are a few of them out there, but quite a few do as well. In terms of the test range, I can't really guide you. Again, it'll be on the on the department page and it'll tell you, you know, what they expect in terms of the types of exams being obviously verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and an analytical writing. So, more information on the department pages.
7:52 So, we have a lot more good questions particularly about the master's degrees. So, why don't we we'll continue on and we'll some of this will be addressed and then we'll circle back to some of those questions. I I think a few of them will be answered as we move on. So I I do want to so I I as the next step I'll just say how do these courses work right so again these are courses that are already happening on campus and most typically how how they work is we schedule them in one of the rooms we operate on campus we record and publish those recordings to Canvas which is the learning management system that Stanford uses. So many students are joining in person. You would be going into to Canvas. you'd be watching those lecture recordings either live, you could live stream them or at your convenience after the fact. Now, I should put quotation marks around at your convenience because obviously you're you're required to keep up with all the academic assignments and deadlines for the course. So, you you you need to watch them relatively soon after the lecture is delivered so that you can do the coursework that's required of you. Now way back in the day, you know, in 1954 when we were the instructional television network, a lot of the other aspects of these courses were happening in person or had to h happen on site wherever someone was taking the courses from. But today, a lot of the other a lot of the other aspects of these courses such as assignments and office hours are already online to some degree. So typically you some subset of the office hours that are available for the class will be available online often through you know video conferencing software like zoom or teams. the assignments would be submitted online usually in canvas through something like grades scope.
9:30 There will usually be discussion forums such as ed or something that's native to canvas and that's where you'll be doing a lot of your participation. What is required of those courses is going to vary a lot from course to course and can even vary from quarter to quarter. If a particular course has multiple instructors across the year, usually the learning you know the learning outcomes remain the same but but instructors might have slightly different approaches to the assignments.
9:54 The one piece I said that almost everything now is online. The one piece that technically is not online is if you have in-person exams at your in that class, you will need to take your exam in person at your location. So that means you're going to have to find what we call an exam monitor to deliver that exam to you in person. So that will have to happen in person. A lot of people use things like testing centers or someone at their work like a a supervisor at work. We won't go into great detail on the exam process here.
10:24 There's a lot more information on our website. but one other thing I'll add about that is you don't have to take the exam at exactly the same time that it's happening on campus because again this is designed the whole programs are designed or imagined to be flexible for working professionals. And so generally you'll have a window in which to complete that maybe a 24-hour window from when the exam starts on campus so that you can find a time that fits your time zone or fits your work schedule.
10:49 And finally you'll be accessing a lot of these course materials through Stanford's secure system. So you will get a Stanford email and login credentials during each quarter that you're actively enrolled. So those credentials are only active when you're taking a course. The end of the quarter when your course is finished and you're not enrolled in another course they will become inactive but that will allow you to access these these materies etc. So it allows you to have that access to the resources and materials that you will need to be successful in class.
11:26 let me add we can we'll pause for a second here after this slide but and and take a few more questions if there are some coming in. But another thing just broadly speaking for you to consider if you're this sounds interesting to you or maybe you're enrolled in a course for fall and you're trying to get more information about what it's like. There are some key considerations for success. These are graduate level courses that you will be taking. They're very hard courses.
11:51 they're challenging courses just like they would be at any in any graduate program. So it's but you have the added the added challenge is that you're potentially taking the these as a working professional at a distance and so that can be very challenging to students. It's a real opportunity to take the same course that's happening on campus alongside onampus students but that can be a challenge and an opportunity as well as an opportunity. So it's important that you're really on top of it and forward thinking. So, make sure you know your key deadlines for each quarter. You can find the general academic deadlines on our site under the academic calendar. and that again, you can link to it to find more information on our site. But you're also going to want to make sure right as that course begins, make sure you're aware of the course deadlines as well. Now, that those usually won't be published or available until the first day of the of the course, but once those are available, you'll want to sort of sketch them out on your calendar. But even before you have those course level deadlines, you'll want to make sure you're ready to spend somewhere between 15 and 25 hours of coursework per week per course, right? So, a lot of these are very intensive courses. So, make sure you're setting aside ample time for study and to to watch the recordings, do the assignments, etc. And as part of that, you know, you want to make sure that you have a strong support network of friends and co-workers and other students. so that you people are aware of the commitment you're putting into this individual course and you have that support structure in place so that you can be successful throughout the quarter. And with that last point in mind of other students is if you do enroll in a course, we really encourage you to attend our quarterly online orientation that happens usually the week before or the week first week of the quarter. so please join that if you can and we'll also usually have one online social mixer during the quarter and these are opportunities for you to meet those other students and to begin forming those groups. We also have a Slack channel that we'd encourage you to join. It's opt-in. So you do need to opt in to join it. and when you're enrolled, you're you're eligible to opt in and that's another place for you to meet other students to ask us questions and to have that kind of support.
13:59 John, I'm going to hand it over to you unless there are any questions you want to address right now. >> yeah, let's there's a couple of questions here before we proceed. I'll pick a few out and then maybe you can as well. again, another question about CUS graduate application. yeah, they're considered but you can't transfer CUS to a master's degree program. Shame, what is the process for graduate certificate? Could you please elaborate on your question again?
14:28 I'm not sure whether you mean applying or or participating in the certificate program. another question here about this is a good question about if I complete a graduate certificate and my credits can be potentially applied to a master's degree. Does this give me conditional or early admission? No, it doesn't. it's no guarantee if you complete a graduate certificate it's no guarantee that you'll get entry into the program because you know the master's degree program are looking at your academic background beyond the graduate certificate you know and a graduate degree etc. So it's not a conditional admission. having said that it does look favorable you know if you've completed Stanford graduate level courses you know the rigor level you know it shows that you're taking very similar courses to those that are offered through the master's degree. So there's that and Pax is a good question for you. are TA's sections recorded?
15:33 >> So that that's a great question and that can vary a lot and that will often vary a lot by the TA and the and and the course and even the instructor. So typically for many of them we will record TA sessions or TAs will record them themselves. Sometimes TAs just run those sessions online over Zoom or something like that and they'll be recording them over Zoom. Sometimes they won't record them but they will just hold them over Zoom, right? So they may they may only be available for for live sessions. So it will depend a lot on the course and it'll depend a lot on the TAs as well but typically yes if if there will be some section or some of the review sessions will be available online in addition to the office hours in most cases some >> and one other question Pax that quite a few people have asked about if you could comment on attending classes or lectures in person.
16:21 >> So again this is an online program so the expectation is that you will be completing it online. there can be opportunities to to join in person with permission with the appropriate permissions but again the expectation is that you would be you would be online. So if you were admitted or or approved to take a course we can go into more detail and answer more of those questions if you're a local student. >> Okay. yes. So I think we're good to move on with my segment if you're okay with that. Pax >> sounds good.
16:50 >> Okay. well first of all thank you everybody for attending today's graduate program information session. As Pax mentioned earlier on my name is Jonathan Notman. I am senior director of client success and engagement for our organization. my segment will primarily talk about the various programs that we have applying how the programs work etc. So we'll start off as you can see with this slide. the first subject I want to talk about is the non-deree program or as the acronym states there NDO. There a lot of acronyms with our program so you might need to get used to them if you if you haven't undertaken them before. So the non-deree program okay so basically you're not being metriculated through this program into a master's degree.
17:33 your ability to take individual courses, graduate level courses for credit individually or if you prefer you can actually have the courses that you take come towards a certificate if you choose that route. So let's talk about applying first. This is a nonmetriculated program as I just mentioned. It's not a degree program. However, you can apply to undertake graduate level courses that are typically part of formed as part of a master's degree program. So it's a non-reticular program. You can apply during any quarter, right? So, university, Stanford University is on a quarter system. We have autumn, winter, spring and summer. You can apply during any quarter or in between. so the application can be submitted at any time. Good news is we if you're considering enrolling or applying to enroll in either individual courses of credit or as part of a graduate certificate program if you're looking for autumn quarter we've got just under two weeks left for applications to be sent in the deadline is the 7th of September so midnight Sunday e evening Monday morning 7th of September. So if you're considering autumn, look out for that deadline. if it's too soon, you can apply for winter which applications for winter quarter open at the end of October. So if you go on to our website, there's a lot of information there about the various application enrollment cycles.
18:59 for the non-deree program, you will complete a simple application online. It doesn't take too long. There's around about six or seven sections. It's not as long and rigorous as an application for a master's degree. Having said that, we do expect you to provide information about your academic background, professional background if you have any statement of purpose. You would have to provide things like your transcript for your undergraduate degree or master's degree if you have one. so that we can review your academic background and make sure that you fit the kind of academic requirements of either the course or the program. as Pax said earlier on, the program is flexible. you don't have to take courses doing it every single quarter. You can take a course or two for for autumn, take a break in winter if you need, and then start again in spring. So, it's really flexible. You can take a couple of quarters off while things are happening in your life, you know, or work or whatever, and then come back and complete them. it's non-ontinuous enrollment. again, that's, you know, based on what I just said, flexibility.
20:00 you don't have to keep taking courses every quarter if you need to take a break for whatever. and obviously the main main requirement for applying for the non-deree program is you are required to have an undergraduate bachelor's degree with a GP typically with a GPA GPA of 3.0 or higher depending on the type of course or program you're applying for. I'll talk a little bit more about the non-deree certificate program and its courses. these are accredited non-deree programs. We are accredited by WASK. Okay. Western Association of Schools and Colleges. So we have accredited non-deree programs such as graduate certificates and their courses typically required to maintain a B or better or a B average depending on the graduate certificate that you pursue.
20:46 Right? So certain academic departments with their graduate certificates are you got to get a B in every single course and some are a B average. So be be mindful of that. For graduate certificates, you're required to complete the number of allocated courses in three years. That's the time that you have to complete courses. Now, considering that graduate certificates typically have four courses on average, that's totally doable based on the fact that you know, you can take a little bit of time off if you need to.
21:13 but, you know, bear in mind that some certificates have, you know, a very v variety of number of courses that you need to complete. Plus, they also maybe have something like a core course requirement section and an elective requirement section. So, again, depending on the graduate certificate you're interested in, be mindful about that. You know, which courses you need to complete, when and the number of courses, etc. one of the unique things that I really love about the non-deree program is, you know, these are graduate level courses. This is your ability to try out test if you like gradu sorry sorry graduate level courses at Stanford University. if you really like the non-deree program and you can really enjoy completing courses and you are considering applying to the master's degree if you apply to the master's degree and are admitted you have the ability to apply up to 18 units of credit earned through the non-deree program. That is obviously a conversation you'd have with the academic department at the time once you're admitted. You know, what courses can I apply, how many units, etc. When you consider that a master's degree is in a school of engineering is typically 45 units, you're almost halfway there almost. So 18 units is a substantial amount of units that you can transfer if you are admitted. And I will say if you're admitted.
22:35 Okay. moving on, we'll talk about the part-time M's degree program. It's affectionately known right now now as the honors cooperative program. So the acronym HCP. So this is the part-time online M's degree program. So again I'll talk about applying and then I'll talk about the actual program itself. so if you are considering applying for the part-time M's degree, it's the same application as if you would complete one for a full-time degree. It's the same. It's no different. Okay? You have to complete the application again. Send in transcripts. You're required to do GRE. of extended GRE scores etc etc you know academic references again you know it's more of a rigorous application than the non-deree program but rightly so it's a metriculated full Stanford University degree so the application is the same okay it's no different you will be applying through the department so you go to the gra Stanford graduate admissions website and then you know depending on which degree program you're applying the the application will go through the department for consideration most of the departments not all have a deadline usually around about December time or so for metriculation the following academic year typically autumn so typically around about Decemberish time maybe January you would you know the application deadline is then and if you are successful and being admitted to the program you would start the following autumn you would probably good advice would be to check the department for details on deadlines so if you interested in example management science and engineering go to the management science and engineering academic department website and check on their their their pages for information on deadlines.
24:13 That's the best resource that you can you can refer to for for details and deadlines of of applying. Okay. So, in terms of the degree program itself, you are a fully metriculated student. You know, if you choose part-time, you have the rights and privileges as as a full-time student would. So, you're a fully metriculated student. your part-time can if you are part-time status you can come in in person or you can do them online or variety of both you know you might decide if you're local I'll come in for one quarter and then the next quart you might think I'll do it remotely even though I live locally so you have the ability and right to come to campus to attend in person or if you prefer you can undertake your course online thing to note that not all master's degree programs in the school engineering can be done remotely some of them can some of Some of them can be completely fully online. Some of them can be completely partially online.
25:05 Okay. So again it varies by department. for example if you're considering management science and engineering sorry mater sorry material science and engineering or a department like that it has to be completed partially online partially in person. I think the same for aero asteroid if you're considering that program again partially online partially in person. So but a lot of that really is determined by which courses you want to complete. You know you might have a particular preference for specialization and that might not be aligned for online or remote study. So bear all these factors in mind and again the department pages provide a lot of that information. and the last thing I want to note in this segment is in all degrees only some concentrations are available online. Okay. So really kind of do your research on the department page and you know make sure you understand which degrees and which concentrations are fully online, partially online, etc. So that's good research to do. With that being said, Pax, let's move on to the next slide.
26:12 >> I think this covers a fair amount of what we went through before, but yeah, >> it's it's a bit repetitious, but again, you know, non-deree program apply anytime. Make sure you got your university transcripts and they have to be official transcripts by the way. We can't do screenshots or unofficial transcripts. they must be official university sealed transcripts. you have to submit your official identification with your application. that's typically like passport, driving license, that kind of thing. And as I said earlier on, you have to write the brief statement of purpose. if you're enroll here's a new piece of information again through the non-aggreedal program. Make sure that you meet the course and department prerequisites. Some courses that you might desire to to take will have a prerequisite like linear algebra. So just make sure you're aware of those when you do your research for course selection. enroll any quarter as course is offered. So not all courses are offered every quarter but you know they're offered during the academic year. Please make sure you plan you know if there's a specific course you got in mind please make sure that you plan and are aware of when it's offered.
27:13 As I mentioned earlier on the grade, you know, B or better or B average, you can skip quarters. As I mentioned earlier on, graduate certificate is typically three to four courses to complete graduate certificate program. As I mentioned earlier on, three years you will get a Stanford University transcript. I didn't mention earlier this this earlier on whether you take courses for credit through the non-deree program or through part of a graduate certificate, you will earn a Stanford transcript. as well as the graduate certificate we'll offer we we provide digital credential through the graduate certificate program I think we're going to go on to the next slide which is again a bit of a recap of the mast's program I believe is that correct >> no just this tuition now >> oh okay tuition okay great tuition for academic year 2526 is $1575 per unit of credit that's the same for the non-deree program as well as the honors co- program. and a typical 4-unit course is $6,300.
28:13 I talked a bit about the graduate certificate, which is typically completing three to four courses is usually 12 to 16 units. You're looking at around about $18,000 to $25,000 in total for that certificate program. You're not required to pay it all at once. You can pay it on a course per course basis. So, don't think that you need to pay all your tuition in advance. >> I I think that's it, John. And we'll I think we have quite a few questions coming in. So maybe worth trying to address some of those. I'm going to put this next slide up just so we see and we can come back to you know the enrollment period. But one thing that to to emphasize again that John mentioned in in the prior slides is that for the non-deree program for graduate certificates you are approved on a course bycourse basis and that when you apply your application is not submitted to a department for approval until you enroll in a course. So we keep it on file and then so let's say you apply now but you don't roll enroll in a course you won't hear from us about whether you've been approved because it's being it is only done once you enroll in a course. If you enroll a course in the autumn or winter we will send your application to the relevant department.
29:25 They will review it and you know they'll let you know what what they you know whether they approve or reject it. And so that's just important to note. It's a course by course basis. And even if you're approved for that course, you're not, you know, approved or admitted into a program, you would then take that course and for the next course, you would keep your application on file. We'll submit it to the next department, maybe the same department along with your Stanford transcript.
29:50 there are a couple other questions coming in that I wanted to just quickly try to address here. I think John you mentioned you know this is a wonderful opportunity for people to try out graduate C courses and programs and I know for some of the M's programs they do encourage you to start as an NBO student and that's part of the reason especially if it's a program that's primarily a part-time program. There are some you know in in biomedical data science or chemical engineering that are primarily only through the part-time program with the option to do coursework online. So they're really geared towards working professionals. And so they want they they want to encourage you to try it out before you get admitted into the master's degree because it is very different if if you didn't work in college or as an undergraduate, it's very different to be a full-time working engineer while taking graduate level courses and they want to make sure you're familiar with what that workload is and what the experience is like.
30:45 Someone also mentioned or John also mentioned that the up to 18 units that you complete as an NDO may be applied to the master's degree. But as someone mentioned the in the questions, those units do have to be the courses that do have to be relevant to the master's degree you're pursuing. They they so not every course that we offer would be would count towards the the requirements of a master's degree. So for instance, there may be a handful of lower level undergraduate level courses that we offer that might help satisfy prerequisites but themselves could not count towards those 45 units towards the degree. So as John said, it's important to do your your research and and take a and take a look at what the course requirements are for a particular master's degree if you're interested in them. and John, did you want to jump in or I had one or two more? yeah.
31:36 >> Yeah. So yeah, there's there's some repeated questions which we won't go over again because we've we've already answered them. But here's a good one for you. if you could take this one, I'll take the next. this question, can we mix and match courses to create our own graduate certificate for the non-deree program? >> That's a great question. So you you cannot create your own certificate. that said, you don't have to pursue a certificate. you can go ahead and take any courses that you you want as long as you're being approved by the departments to take those courses. So, you don't have to follow a certificate.
32:10 there are lots of students who come in and really are just interested in one or two courses or are not interested in a particular certificate and they're interested in in you know taking one artificial intelligence course, a course from biomedical data science, a course from chemical engineering. And so they might take a variety of of graduate coursework and as long as you continue to do well and you're approved by the departments to continue taking those courses then you can take those courses.
32:33 So you don't need to be locked into a graduate certificate or pursue a graduate certificate you can take individual courses. we do frequently get the question about substituting courses. So that is possible with a a petition. So if you're taking a pursuing a certificate and maybe it requires three electives and a particular course you want is not included in those is not an option of those electives you can petition the department to add a different course that that it's up to the discretion of the department on whether or not to approve that. So >> okay thanks for that Pax. I'll take the next question. this is a really good question actually. how to better prepare for the honors c program in management science and engineering what credentials would count most?
33:19 That's a really good question. my opinion and advice would be obviously the first thing is your academic background, right? It's your your credentials, you know, what undergraduate degree you have or your education generally, what you've taken, what your grades are like, etc. That's that's obviously one of the most prominent pieces of information they look at. another good one to point out is academic references. That's always very a very strong component of the of the application for somebody to be able to, you know, testify and provide information on your suitability for the program. That's really a a good good kind of credential or good data point to remember. And then aside from that, you know, really give telling a compelling story through, you know, your essay component of the application. I think that's critical too. one other question I have here, Pax, that I can take. question about GPA.
34:21 somebody's saying, "What if I've got below GP 3.0 GPA? Does work experience count to kind of counterbalance that?" Unfortunately, no. work experience is considered or your professional experience is considered but cannot replicate the minimum requirements for the programs unfortunately no it's 3.0 or higher. I so a couple other questions coming in here that are good. So, there's a question specifically about submitting our your, you know, autumn grades to to an application for a degree this year. I I don't, you know, we don't control when. So, the grades usually have a deadline. It's going to be after the deadline for the application. We obviously can't submit those earlier.
35:10 You may be able to speak to an instructor or something to have them on file earlier, but that would be something that that would be a may not be able to happen because there may be assignments they're just due after the the grades are due, but it' also be something to to talk about with your with your particular teaching team >> with the the teaching team for the course. >> Yeah. good question here, Pax, about the honors call program. Is a US residency requirement still in place for fully online HCP? there are for the for the >> honors.
35:46 >> Yeah. >> Yes. So yeah, I'll give you some examples. So there are certain master's degree programs that can be completed online that you don't need to be a resident. but the the the most profound one is computer science. You have to be a resident of the US to undertake that program online. you cannot take the computer science honors co-op program overseas. There is a department requirement for you to be residents. So but there are some online masters degree programs for the honors co-op program that can be completed overseas. It's just not computer science unfortunately.
36:25 perhaps is a good one for you. Maybe you could take this question. if we've previously taken the compressed professional development equivalent of a particular course, are we disqualified from taking the full graduate course for academic credit? >> I don't think so. I would want more information about because I'm not sure what course you're referring to, but if for instance you've taken any of the AI professional courses, you wouldn't be disqualified from taking the the credit bearing course as well. That would be fine.
36:53 >> Yeah, I would agree with that. It seems I would say no, you you'd be fine. I don't think there's any in my in my experience that there's any kind of disqualification if you take a professional education course through our organization and take the credit version. >> Great question about what if you're not in the same time zone. So most of these courses right they're happening on campus and the expectation would be that you won't have to join the course itself real time. There can be exceptions to that and in fact in most courses you there won't be an opportunity to join the lectures real participate real time in the lectures like they may not have you know two-way conferencing in in the lecture hall itself because they're giant lecture halls with 500 students but the expectation that the the other side of that is the expectation is that you won't be joining you don't have to join the lectures real time and that's again because the you know our typical learner is someone who's a working professional nine-to-five So they wouldn't be able to join anyway because they're in their job when their lecture is happening or they're in a different time zone and they aren't able to join. So as we mentioned earlier, the way that generally works for lectures is that we are recording them in the classroom and they are available for for for live stream you know if you want to watch it real time but again maybe that real-time participation is not available or it'll be available after the course is is is finished to to watch on demand. So, what we see for a lot of students is they will, you know, maybe they're watching, they get home at night and they watch their lectures at 8 or 9:00 p.m., you know, later at night before going to bed in as opposed to while the the lecture is happening.
38:32 Again, you will need to keep on top of academic deadlines. So, you can't just watch all you probably would be hard to watch all the lectures on the weekend because you're probably going to have assignments due along the way. so that that's one way that that people do it. And again, there will be other as as we've mentioned, there may be office hours and other things that you you do have to join real time because that's how office hours work. and so you would either be if you couldn't join office hours, you might ask the teaching team if there's another time that's available or post questions in the online forums where you can have them answered kind of asynchronously as the the the teaching teams get there. But there are a lot of opportunities for you to participate in that way. That's a great great question.
39:11 >> so I have a couple more I can quickly answer packs. I rattle through these. I believe the question here is can a previous master's degree grade or GPA count towards program or course requirement? Yes, it can. that is considered. so your undergraduate degree and your master's degree are GPA are considered separately. There's no cumulative between the two. You look at either by themselves. Question here. A good question about the non-deree program. can I just take graduate courses indefinitely without completing it? you can continue to take courses for credit as long as you wish.
39:50 you you know and some co some students with us they don't you know have them apply to a graduate certificate but so you can just continue to take courses indefinitely if you wish. however, if you want to have the courses that you take count towards a certificate, you know, it's not going to be 20 years down the line or anything like that, you know, because the courses sometimes a sunset and and no longer counted towards a certificate. So, bear that in mind.
40:16 so there isn't the infinite shelf life on on the courses you complete, but you can take courses and continue to take them as long as you wish. yeah. And then you don't have to join another ND graduate certificate program like that. You just you continue to long as you wish. But bear in mind if you want them to count towards certificate there is not an infinite amount of time that you can just wait. >> Let's see. John there's a good question earlier that I wanted to circle back to which was you know prerequisites sequence of courses. so we do our best to make sure that our you know we always have all the courses you need in a sequence. We don't always make prerequisites available. So a lot of these are graduate level courses and so the expectation is you would have undergraduate level background in u you know the particular subject. So it may be the case that for instance a particular math class that you need or even something like a fundamentals of circuits those kinds of courses that you would need in order to take a course that we don't offer. And so the expectation would be either that you've completed it as part of your undergraduate degree or you would complete it, you know, at a community college or a similar accredited institution in order to meet th those those prerequisites. and so that that was a good question. In terms of sequence of courses, someone was saying, you know, there are some some certificates where, you know, you you know, you need to take two out of three courses and and one is a prerequisite for the next and that one's a prerequisite for the final course. So again, we do our best to make sure those are available every year. Sometimes even the university doesn't offer those classes every year. but it is something we try to do and I would just encourage you to go back and just you know look at the look at the schedule and you can see when they're typically offered on Stanford's schedule or you can see it in our in our catalog that when those courses have been last offered.
42:14 >> So couple more questions Pax we can quickly sneak in here. there was a question about international degrees you know what's the what's the process for you know transferring GPA sorry transferring scores and grades to to GPA the academic departments quite simply have a conversion system that is normal for most international universities they use that we don't do it our organization doesn't do it but the academic departments within school of engineing do so and it's quite common another really good question what's the notation on your degree if you you know you're taking courses online it would be because it would be the honors cooperative program and it would say that on your degree certificate. So it would be taken completed your program through the honors cooperative program. It would list all the courses, credits, grades and GPA.
43:08 >> But it is the same master's degree. I mean it >> is exactly the same master's degree. It's just it's a part-time master's degree. you know it's not any lesser or anything like that. It's it's you've taken it in a part-time capacity. Simple as that. >> let's see here. We still have some questions coming in here. let's see if I got >> question about perhaps about auditing courses. We don't offer course auditing options. >> We don't offer I I will say though we do make a lot of materials available on our YouTube channel. there's a link down on the console itself. So if you click there you know probably every quarter we publish one or two sequence of lecture courses you know again mostly high level engineering courses that's a great place for you to go to you can review those materials you can see what the the recordings themselves are like I'll also say that a lot of the courses particular in particularly in computer science have public facing course websites that will include their syllabi or their syllabus course logistics often current or future assignments that's another really valuable resource for you to take a look if you're thinking about a course or maybe you just want to self-study. You can go take a look at what's available, what they cover in the class, and if if available, and they're often linked from the course site, you know, pri prior recordings that we have available on YouTube, and that allows you the opportunity to go through and review review those materials. So, yeah, >> here's a very good question, Pax. I think it's worth repeating again.
44:42 can a the the computer science master's degree at Stanford be taken from internationally? No. computer science academic department of a strict policy that you have to be resident in the US to take an online degree through their program. one great question here and we get this from time to time not not often. if my bachelor's degree is from an international country can would you know and I have a reor original diploma etc. Can I get it notorized and interpreted you know into English for maybe applying to Stanford?
45:15 Yes, you can send that to the World Education Services WES. You can look them up online. They provide a notoriization and trans language transfer service. so you can get your your degree, diploma, whatever it is, whatever program you completed internationally overseas, transferred and notorized by their services. There's a small charge. so be aware of that, but yes, that can be done through their services. >> Seeing some of the same questions here.
45:48 let's see here. for so good question about just you know this challenge if you were admitted into a master's degree program and you chose to pursue it online and it had that option or maybe you're a non-deree student remotely in terms of this idea of how do you network or connect with students you know it can it can be a challenge we do try to make those opportunities available you know I would say a lot of students what they'll do if they're in the master's degree program they will they will come out you know and they'll visit campus occasionally maybe end of year or if they're big project aspects of their of a particular course they might fly out for those projects. some students, you know, don't come to campus until they graduate if they can, right? So, they come at the very end and they just attend for graduation. But I think that'll, you know, there there are different ways to engage with with students and with the broader community.
46:39 and probably the best way is through your courses themselves. So, meeting other students through the courses, through the forums, through the Slack channels, trying to form some of those relationships. we have a lot of you know kind of stories of coincidence or something where a student is taking a course and it turns out that another student who's taking it online is actually lives literally on the same block that they do and so then they form a study group. So there are a lot of opportunities to try a network and form those connections. but you know always try different ways to do that.
47:10 question here from based on endo application. can I edit my old endo application if I decide to pursue a different grad certificate? Yes. just email us, reach out to us and we'll be happy to help you. we'll release the application that was submitted and approved back to you and you can edit it and then submit it again. So just email us please the person that asked that question and we can arrange for you to edit it.
47:35 >> I think we've gotten to to most of the questions. I did want to just, you know, reiterate if you are interested. I encourage you or even, you know, if you're just thinking about it, encourage you to take a look at the courses that are open this autumn. Again, you don't need to en apply or enroll now in autumn. If you're interested in taking them, you could also do it in winter or spring. If a course that you're interested in and you're qualified to take is available, then again, each quarter, we have somewhere between 60 and 70 courses that we are that are happening on campus that we are helping extend to an online audience. If you are interested in autumn, the enrollment closes on September 7th. So, we would need your application and your enrollment in by then in order for you to be considered for the course. But if you miss it, the winter enrollment opens on October 20th. I forget its closing date, but I think it's around December 6th or something like that. so it closes in early December and then the quarter that quarter begins in early January. And the autumn quarter begins on September 22nd. So it's coming up in about a month when the quarter begins.
48:39 And we do offer although primarily within the school of engineering I'd encourage you to take a look at the the sort of full range of courses we do often offer a fair a fair number through through the school of medicine as well. so of course in biomedical data science epidemiology in translational medicine and you know within the school of engineering everything from computer science to civil and environmental engineering. let's see. Are some other questions?
49:09 I I think there's some specific questions we might have to follow up with offline. If you want to email our our client success engagement team, if you have specific questions again about a particular master's degree, I again would would take a look at the department's page. They will usually have the requirements there. and usually if it is available in a part-time basis, what you know what depth areas might be you might be able to complete online if that's what you're interested in.
49:38 >> Yeah. Some some other question packs can I take extra classes within the certificate? Yes, you can take as many as you wish. even if you complete the certificate, continue to take courses within that program if you wish. and again a question about if a co if a a course is approved by a department can I take it any time? you should really take it during the quarter that it's offered. so if you're approved to take a course, because you enroll in a course that's offered during autumn, you should really take it during autumn rather than delayed to spring or And I think just as a practical and logistic ma logistics, if you were to enroll in the course, be approved and then say, I don't want to take it, we would drop you from the course and we would just resubmit the application. So again, they'd be reviewing the same application. So you should should in theory be approved for the next course unless something has changed in between those. But just logistically we wouldn't hold we wouldn't be able to hold that that approval.
50:33 >> Yeah. We don't we don't have the kind of we don't have the opportunity for you to pick and choose if you're approved to take the course when to take it. You know, you should you're approved for that quarter. That's essentially the situation. I think that so I see there's some more questions and again I would encourage you if you if we didn't get to your question or or if there need some more clarity please take a look at our website and again we'll be updating it and hopefully making that that site as well even clearer and easier to navigate for people who are interested in these programs but wanted to thank all of you again for joining us today.
51:10 we really appreciate your time and we hope to see you again sometime in the future. >> Thanks everybody.