Educating out of state?
Hello everyone out there…. I am going back to school to study surveying and hopefully achieve a PLS in the state of Massachusetts!! Hiiijaaaa….. Its kind of a pipe dream but, Im going to see if I cant “git er done”, I’ve got 10 years with a surveying co. (in Mass.) 8 solid in the field and 2 years mostly office. At the moment I am registered with Wentworths Institute of Technology Land Surveying Certification program starting this summer, I will be taking one of the legal aspects of surveying courses, but I need to fulfill some math pre requisite courses before I am able to take the Surveying Measurement courses. Either way, up to this point my thinking has been to get the education I need in the state I hope to be licensed, I assumed the curriculum would be specific and tailored to Mass law so I had been solely focused on schools in Massachusetts. That said, I LOVE IT out west, I’ve traveled a lot, all over the world and plenty in our own country and southern Utah, Nevada, Arizona area, makes me excited! So in the past few days I have been fantasizing about going to a school out west rather than Boston, duhhhh, am I right? Obviously such a better idea! I guess my question is, how much of a difference would the curriculum at a school say in Nevada be from the curriculum at somewhere like Wentworth? Now granted each program will vary, Wentworth is a 1 year certification program so obviously it wouldn’t be as extensive as a 4 year program or even a 2 year. That said, If I were to go to a 2 or four year program in another state how would it differ from going to a school in the state I hope to be licensed? I know the Wentworth program does have a course on “Mass regs”, and obviously to be licensed in Mass I would need to know those regs, but otherwise there are 5 courses, 1&2 Survey Measurement and an “overview” course, then two legal aspects courses which to me all sound pretty “generic”, as in I cant imagine why I wouldn’t learn the same stuff in equivalent courses at another institution. Does this make sense to anyone? Needless to say there are all the other variables like jobs, economies, quality of schooling, but all things being equal, is this a bad idea? I mean would it be wasting any time or effort to be educated out of state then come back instate to learn the specifics and probably take an exam prep course and such. Please! Only encouraging supportive responses. Joking! If this is a bad idea someone tell me why. Thanks so much in advance!
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