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..Degree Program Tuitions and Financial Assistance
A user friendly IGE tuition fee and payment plan opportunity for people in the IGE Degree Preparation program.
Because we Project NatureConnect is dedicated to support individuals who recognize the value of our hands-on, organic application of ecopsychology, low cost, funded, courses and degrees. They are available to any caring person who appreciates them.
Students can afford to participate in, and contribute to their tuition, through the scholarship and grant funding program of PNC and transfer universities. Accredited and/or non-accredited degrees are available.
UPDATE, May 15, 2012:
If you are reading this line as it appears here now, it means that our subsidized Tuition, Honesty and Trust financial assistance program is presently available. By acting quickly, via work/study you can obtain scholarship money and grants that cover what you honestly can not afford to pay for courses and degrees beyond the Orientation Course. In addition, based on trust, you can create your own time table for making payments, interest free.Select Here for tuition updates.
Option: in general use streamlined, compact updates and guidance through our PNC Organization and Application website at www.ProjectNatureConnect.org.
TUITON INFORMATION:
Courses, in general, cost $150/credit towards a degree, $85/credit towards a certification plus $55/credit if you want the credit from Portland State University for transferring a course or using it for licensing CEU requirements.
Depending upon the University you choose, below, are the Degree totals before scholarship, grant and work study contributions reduce them:
Bachelor's Degree (BS): $6,000
Professional Diploma (Prof.Dpl) $3,450
Master of Science (MS): 40 credits, $6,000
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) 52 credits, approximately $7,800
Level I Certificate 9 Credits $765.00
Eco-Art Therapy Certificate $850
Level II Certificate 20 Credits $1,700.00
Level III Certificate 3 Credits $255.00
The fees, above, include all the extra costs listed at the transfer eligible university website. They vary with each student depending upon the amount of transfer credit, equivalency evaluation and life experience the student brings in or other services they require.
As noted above, for dedicated students to keep costs, tuition, transfer and competency fees and red tape minimal, IGE, with trust in you, asks you to honestly determine and state on your application the most you can practically afford to attain a degree. This simplifies the process. If necessary, you then may then request scholarship and/or grant funding, to cover the remaining tuition cost.
Once your contribution to the total tuition is determined and you are accepted to the program, when possible, scholarship or grant funding is allocated to cover the remainder of the total tuition.
See the Application Form for additional options
If you decide not to complete your Degree Program, IGE will refund you a minimum of$1200.00 from tuition fees you pay above the first $2320 paid (This figure does not include the scholarships that may have been paid on your behalf.) You may also transfer into the Certificate program.
Through this method, whenever possible, we help you meet the IGE goal to have you graduate with the ability to offer Organic Psychology skills along with no debt or loans to pay back. This relieves the otherwise common stress of entering questionable work situations in order to pay debts rather than to apply your Organic Psychology skills where they will do the most good. It allows you to enter professional relationships many other graduates can not afford to enter. Some programs similar to IGE run $40,000 for the Masters.
Your portion of the total tuition is due before you are eligible to take your written comprehensive exam and complete your degree program. Other arrangements may be made by special contract with IGE and may involve additional fees to cover administrative cost.
TUITION, PARTICIPATION AND REFUNDS:
Orientation Option: Take the Orientation Course ECO 500 by itself to learn the basic organic psychology skills of the Natural Systems Thinking Process. The course costs as much as $150.00 (1/1/2004) with its two books The Web of Life Imperative and Reconnecting With Nature. You may enter the Certification or Degree Program, complete the 2-credit Orientation Course, receive its books, waive other fees and be eligible for financial assistance and the remaining program. Today, this packaged application is only $150 total ($340 value).
Certification or Degree Program Option: To apply and commit to the certification and/or degree program gives you the advantage of reducing your program costs and obtaining degree scholarship funding by taking each of three levels of certification as a 12 credit certification package.
Level One Certification ($765) includes the Application Fee and all the courses in Level One (whose tuition, if they were taken individually, would be $1,060 including the application fee.) Grant funding is available.
An immediate-start tuition, $150, is available for students who want to immediately begin the Certification or Degree program but need some leeway time to obtain and send their tuition funds. The immediate-start tuition includes the Application Fee, the Orientation Course and its two books.
Refunds: Refunds are not given for courses that a student starts but does not complete. Students who apply for the Certification or Degree Program package are automatically enrolled in two one-credit courses, ECO 500 and ECO 751A and receive the books they need for the former. A maximum refund for withdrawing from the Certification program excludes refunds for the books, the application fee and the two one-credit courses individually ($80/credit) plus a $20.00 administrative fee ($330 total withheld).
If you decide not to complete your Degree Program, IGE will refund you a minimum of $1200.00 from tuition fees you pay above the first $2320 paid (This figure does not include the scholarships that may have been paid on your behalf.)
Through this method, whenever possible, we help you meet the IGE goal to have you graduate with the ability to offer Organic Psychology skills along with no debt or loans to pay back. This relieves the otherwise common stress of entering questionable work situations in order to pay debts rather than to apply your Organic Psychology skills where they will do the most good. It allows you to enter professional relationships many other graduates can not afford to enter. Some programs similar to IGE run $40,000 for the Master's Degree, $65,000 Ph.D. and they are often excessively academic, not hands-on.
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INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council
PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Readily available, online, natural science tools
for the health of person, planet and spiritP.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-6313 <email> www.ecopsych.comORGANIC ADVANCED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION
The Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
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All programs start with the Orientation Course contained in the book
The Web of Life Imperative.
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