05-19-2011, 08:10 PM
(04-21-2011, 12:06 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote: The only intelligence degree that has any real meaning is one from the National Defense Intelligence College. You have to be military or a fed to even get in.
The only civilian intelligence designation that means anything is the SCIP CIP offered through the Fuld Gilad Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI). There's a few others out there (e.g., ICI) but they have little weight to insiders. The CIP has far more real world value than anything you can get at APUS.
Forgive the self-reply, but here's another online program that rates highly in the intelligence community.
RA Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA has an online Graduate Certificate in Applied Intelligence. This is a three course program and the courses may be applied toward their MS in Applied Intelligence, which apparently is not online. Current tuition is $1752 per three unit course.
Mercyhurst has the added distinction of being a Catholic institution, which makes all its grads eligible for a lifetime of gratuitous insults and degradation from bigoted putz George Gollin.
And to restate the point, if you are serious about intelligence studies and are looking for a program with credibility, AMU/APUS is not the answer.