02-12-2012, 09:59 PM
Hi all,
Long time lurker, and first time poster here. I spent the last year, on and off, reading all the helpful posts in this forum, and am almost ready to take the plunge.
I'm in a niche field that doesn't require a lot of formal education and still pays very well (E-Discovery/Legal Technology), but to go C-Level, I need that one weakness on my resume (the lack of a college degree) to disappear.
I took the CLEP: Principles of Management, and CLEP: Principles of Marketing exams as a dry-run and passed them fairly easily. So, I think I'm ready. This is the year that I plan to take down this whole college degree thing that's been on the backburner for the past 10 years.
I'm hoping to get some help from the wiser heads on this forum: How can I align the classes needed to the CLEP/DSST exams available?
Basically, I'm trying to test out (as much as possible, and as fast as possible) for a Bachelor's in Business (General Business). I've read through the forums and have a general idea of the units needed. But how can I tell which CLEP exams will satisfy which class/credit? Is there a list available somewhere? Something that will say, along the lines, "...exam XYZ will be the equivalent of class 123, which will satisfy, requirement ABC..."?
I found an old post by a great user (Jackbanta) which provides the following list of exams as an example for a Bachelor's degree.
Is the below still valid? If I'd like to substitue out a certain subject (don't like science much), how can I know which exam would be taken as an equal?
And a side question: I have my PMP certificate, and started seeing that Excelsior will count it as credit now. Anybody know which class the PMP can help eliminate among this list?
Many thanks everyone!
Arts and Science â 60 Needed
CLEP History of the United States I 3
CLEP History of the United States II 3
CLEP College Composition 3
CLEP Humanities 6
CLEP Biology 6
CLEP College Mathematics 6
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3
CLEP American Government 3
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6
CLEP Microeconomics 3
CLEP Macroeconomics 3
ALEKS College Algebra 3
ALEKS Introduction to Statistics 3
DSST Foundations of Education 3
DSST Environment and Humanity 3
DSST Technical Writing 3
Career Component â 45 Needed (12 Upper)
Accounting I, straighterline 3 (Financial Accounting)
Accounting II, straighterline 3 (Managerial Accounting)
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 (Introduction to Business Law)
CLEP Information Systems 3 (Computers)
CLEP Principles of Management 3 (Principles of Management)
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 (Principles of Marketing)
DSST Principles of Finance 3 (Financial Management)
311 MGMT at CSU Pueblo 3 (Production/Operations Management)
BUS 495 at Excelsior (Business Policy)
DSST Business Ethics 3 U (Ethics Requirement)
DSST Organizational Behavior 3 (Organizational Behavior)
DSST Business Law II 3 U
DSST Management Information Systems 3 U
DSST Money and Banking 3 U
DSST Intro to Business 3
Electives â 15 Needed
Information Literacy 1
DSST Principles of Supervision 3
DSST Human Resource Management 3
DSST Fundamentals of Counseling 3
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
Long time lurker, and first time poster here. I spent the last year, on and off, reading all the helpful posts in this forum, and am almost ready to take the plunge.
I'm in a niche field that doesn't require a lot of formal education and still pays very well (E-Discovery/Legal Technology), but to go C-Level, I need that one weakness on my resume (the lack of a college degree) to disappear.
I took the CLEP: Principles of Management, and CLEP: Principles of Marketing exams as a dry-run and passed them fairly easily. So, I think I'm ready. This is the year that I plan to take down this whole college degree thing that's been on the backburner for the past 10 years.
I'm hoping to get some help from the wiser heads on this forum: How can I align the classes needed to the CLEP/DSST exams available?
Basically, I'm trying to test out (as much as possible, and as fast as possible) for a Bachelor's in Business (General Business). I've read through the forums and have a general idea of the units needed. But how can I tell which CLEP exams will satisfy which class/credit? Is there a list available somewhere? Something that will say, along the lines, "...exam XYZ will be the equivalent of class 123, which will satisfy, requirement ABC..."?
I found an old post by a great user (Jackbanta) which provides the following list of exams as an example for a Bachelor's degree.
Is the below still valid? If I'd like to substitue out a certain subject (don't like science much), how can I know which exam would be taken as an equal?
And a side question: I have my PMP certificate, and started seeing that Excelsior will count it as credit now. Anybody know which class the PMP can help eliminate among this list?
Many thanks everyone!
Arts and Science â 60 Needed
CLEP History of the United States I 3
CLEP History of the United States II 3
CLEP College Composition 3
CLEP Humanities 6
CLEP Biology 6
CLEP College Mathematics 6
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3
CLEP American Government 3
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6
CLEP Microeconomics 3
CLEP Macroeconomics 3
ALEKS College Algebra 3
ALEKS Introduction to Statistics 3
DSST Foundations of Education 3
DSST Environment and Humanity 3
DSST Technical Writing 3
Career Component â 45 Needed (12 Upper)
Accounting I, straighterline 3 (Financial Accounting)
Accounting II, straighterline 3 (Managerial Accounting)
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 (Introduction to Business Law)
CLEP Information Systems 3 (Computers)
CLEP Principles of Management 3 (Principles of Management)
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 (Principles of Marketing)
DSST Principles of Finance 3 (Financial Management)
311 MGMT at CSU Pueblo 3 (Production/Operations Management)
BUS 495 at Excelsior (Business Policy)
DSST Business Ethics 3 U (Ethics Requirement)
DSST Organizational Behavior 3 (Organizational Behavior)
DSST Business Law II 3 U
DSST Management Information Systems 3 U
DSST Money and Banking 3 U
DSST Intro to Business 3
Electives â 15 Needed
Information Literacy 1
DSST Principles of Supervision 3
DSST Human Resource Management 3
DSST Fundamentals of Counseling 3
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6
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