Regarding HCC, if you are a Florida resident you will pay the
resident fee for tuition. A 3-credit course, which is typical,
will cost about $165 - $170 for each course, each lasting a
full semester. There IS NO additional lab fee. That figure
is the full cost. There is a very small student activity fee,
maybe $20 or so. Books are additional, of course.
SPC, AFAIK, charges a similar amount for tuition, and HAS
the additional labfee. I have heard it justified that they
have a large investment in hardware. I have also heard it
claimed that a "lab fee" can be a backdoor method of
actually having a tuition increase which is not something
they can do directly.
I am not a SPC student so what I have heard about them is
probably best called hearsay.
However both Patty and I ARE students at HCC right now,
so our info is current. I can tell you that in the Unix Admin
course, you will learn a lot of material, currently using
RH and some Solaris.
The course is taught in a classroom with Dell HW and
you get a removable drive which is yours for the semester,
and you can access the classroom during the day when it
is not being used, or use your harddisk in the open lab,
which is open to 2200 weekdays and days Sa-Su. where
machines are available. You just cannot take the HD
away from the classroom or lab. Many courses are
given in evening hours, as well, for those who are
still working (IT people actually working?? cool..).
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric A. Hicks" <lugmail@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 21:36
Subject: Re: [SLUG] New HCC SysAdmin AS degree
> the $800 was just a lab fee.... you still have to pay for the
> tuition/books on top of it!
>
> I looked at the HCC website and there was nothing telling me if there
> was a lab fee for their *nix classes. My guess is that there is (there
> always is for computer classes) the question is how much?
>
> bassettsk@att.net wrote:
>
> >courses at HCC are not anywhere near the cost of spc three credit cost
and
> >books
> >
> >--
> >Help someone today
> >
> >
> >>Are they $800 per class like St Pete College??? If so, no thanks... :)
> >>
> >>btw, while I'm ranting about that... does anyone else wonder what an
> >>$800 lab fee is for? It's a linux class, for crying out loud. It's not
> >>like a M$ cert class where the school needs to purchase the server
> >>software and they have to buy the "official" M$ student books.
sheesh...
> >>
>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 19:30:38 EDT