ASU non-degree study (schools, university, education)

[rarog]

Not sure if this should go in here or the education forum... but anyway, does anyone have any experience with taking undergrad classes at ASU without actually pursuing a degree? They have a non-degree page on their site, but it looks like that's geared toward HS graduates who haven't gone to college. I already have a B.S. (from a different school, never been to ASU), just trying to take a couple upper level Computer Science courses (I'd have the pre-reqs done at other schools). Maybe 1 in the summer and 2 in the fall.

[Bruce Jackpot]

I'd recommend contacting ASU and asking this question. I'm sure they'd be happy to take your money and let you take classes as a non-degree seeking student. But if seats are limited for the courses you want, maybe. But you should speak with someone from the University and go from there.

[rarog]

Yeah I'm going to do a little more digging and try to find someone to email, but I didn't see any conveniently placed email addresses on their non-degree webpage. Just figured I'd ask here since people on these forums have a lot of useful info on so many things.

From what I saw on their course listings page, they tend to have plenty of open seats for most, if not all, of the upper level CS classes.

[Bruce Jackpot]

Originally Posted by rarog

Yeah I'm going to do a little more digging and try to find someone to email, but I didn't see any conveniently placed email addresses on their non-degree webpage. Just figured I'd ask here since people on these forums have a lot of useful info on so many things.

From what I saw on their course listings page, they tend to have plenty of open seats for most, if not all, of the upper level CS classes.

As a non degree seeking student, if there is seat availability, I don't see why they wouldn't let you pay to take the course. Not only do they get your money, but it is a form of serving the community I suppose you could say. And ASU is a public state supported university after all. You shouldn't have a problem but you'll know for sure when you can get more details from the university.

[rarog]

Just thought I would update this in case someone searches these forums for the same question at some point.

What I was looking at before was ASU nondegree students (which seems to be geared toward HS graduates), but there's also ASU nondegree graduate student, which has a $70 application fee and just requires a B.S. (or B.A. I guess). They actually don't require you to upload transcripts, not sure what kind of verification they do. But I got accepted in just a few days. You do have to register for a particular term... not sure if you'd have to pay the $70 to apply for each semester you want to study, but even if you do, that's not much in the grand scheme of things.

I saw the grad nondegree student idea on one of the CS pages that recommended applying as a nondegree grad student to fill in some background courses if you didn't major in CS.