Just read your Dec. 14 Q & A on the master's-while-working question. I hope you'll take the question a bit further.

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I, too, am looking toward teaching college journalism once I've tired of the grind, and have begun to inquire about pursuing a master's for that purpose one class at a time. However, I've been told I'll probably have to find one grad program at one school and complete it there, over a period of years.

You certainly know how transient reporters can be. Is there a way to get a master's without having to commit to one city for the years it takes to complete that degree?

Thanks,

B.D.

Universities are less willing to accept transfer credits in graduate programs than they are in the undergraduate programs. When they put their seal of approval on a graduate, they want to have done the schooling.

You have options:

• Look for the graduate programs that can be completed the fastest. Columbia University and the

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  University of Illinois programs can be done in a year. The new program at City University of New York takes three semesters, full time. The University of California Berkeley takes two years.
• Take more than one course at a time, and take them year-round.
• Resolve to stay put until you graduate -- or to move only to towns that accept a lot of transfer credits -- and do it when you can still transfer them.

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