tedmeister:

tcord1964:

I believe Baker College operates on the quarter-hour system, rather than credit hours.  That has always been an issue for me because it tends to make the programs rather expensive.  I have never heard anything but positive remarks about their courses and programs, however.

And why does operating on quarter hours (rather than semester hours) make a school expensive?

Because generally each course in such a system is four credit hours instead of three.  

tcord1964:

Because generally each course in such a system is four credit hours instead of three.

I've only seen it either as four and a half quarter-hours, or five, at least as the equivalent to three semester-hours.

-=Steve=-

I attended Bakers BCS program and I was grandfathered in to the curriculum that I register with, which was there 2004 curriculum, the curriculum  changed several time when I was going through the program .  Also, I do not remember Calculus being in the curriculum at anytime.  I was never laugh out of any colleges I applied for with my Master study, I recieved exceptance in to many and the one I chose(because it was local) was not a shabby school RIT.

 Just my experiences.

Devil's advocate here: So what if calculus isn't in your program, or it's available as an elective but it's not required?  This question has come up in the past, so I've asked programmer friends (i.e., people who get paid to do it) how often they really use calculus when coding.  Their answer was "never".

-=Steve=-