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Kevin Newby - ECPI
“IT REALLY IS A GOOD PLACE” By Gene Marrano
For-profit ECPI on why its diploma and degree offerings are a cut above.
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For-profit colleges have gotten a bum rap in recent years and at least one multi-location school with a former location in Roanoke has gone under (ITT) but the ECPI system that has a campus in Roanoke on Airport Road has been turning out degreed students for several decades. The school has the same regional accreditation as other not-for-profit higher education institutions says its president – and it can take as little as 2.5 years to earn a bachelor’s degree.
and engineering technologies are offered at the local campus, much of it virtually over the past year, where Kevin Newby is the President for ECPIRoanoke. “That standard of regional accreditation,” says Newby, “rises us above [some other for-profit colleges].” Splitting a semester into five-week terms – with no more than two subjects per term, sometimes one - helps students focus better on that particular subject(s) Newby contends. About 350 students are enrolled during a typical semester locally.
Nursing, medical assisting (the two top draws right now), IT and cybersecurity,
But he adds, “it’s accelerated and it’s not for everybody. It's fast-paced. A full
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