Another source of cheap NCCRS credit

[Avidreader]

I still haven't made my mind which of the Big 3 schools I'd like to enlist, so I am spending my time doing Sophia courses in the meantime. I was looking at the NCCRS website regarding which online courses are accepted for credit. One of the websites is a small online school that focuses on law and insurance courses called the AEI institute.
They seem very lax about prior requirements to sign up for courses which are all self paced with a final proctored exam. The courses seem very different from most of the other offerings I have seen in other low cost ACE granting courses. For example, this school has a 1 credit course about yacht insurance and several kinds of fraud and arson. Solo courses cost 190 usd (website doesn't specify if per credit or the entire course. Some courses offer 3 credits). Two intro courses only cost 100 usd. They have packages where you take all of the courses in the bundle for only 1040 usd. If you previously take a solo course and want to take the rest, they will respect the cheaper price. TESU apparently accepts these courses for their Criminal Justice degree. I haven't signed up yet to verify if the courses are good. But I have never seen any mentions of this school anywhere and thought it would be a good idea to share it here.
Aei school:
Nccrs

[dfrecore]

Two courses are $100 - meaning it's $50/cr. That's way more expensive than other options on here. You also have to come up with a way to get the courses proctored, which will probably cost something as well, so you'd have to factor that in.

As to TESU accepting these for their CJ degree, I highly doubt it - there's nothing here that shows what each course comes in as at TESU which would be important to know. And, none of these line up with any CJ courses at TESU.

If these were a lot cheaper, maybe. But for the price, it's not worth doing. Instead, try LawShelf.

[Avidreader]

Thanks for the reply. I'll go check lawshelf to see if any courses interest me. Good observation about the additional proctoring fee. I didn’t factor that extra expense in, but I still feel happy about sharing this information in case someone is interested. The website mentions the courses transfer into TESU's Master of Science in Management. They accept 12 credits which might be worthwhile to someone here. The link below from the school has an email of an admin that might offer more information that could be shared here.

https://www.aeiclaimslaw.com/ce/college-credit

The website mentions this text:
TESU offers a graduate degree, Master of Science in Management, which requires 36 credits, 12 of which can come from AEI work. For graduate degree credit, a research project is required for each AEI course. This project will involve a topic relevant to the course in question as determined by AEI's Director of Education. It must be 5-7 typewritten pages. There is a $50 fee per course (graduate level only).

[studyingfortests]

Since it looks like the copyright date on the website is more than 7 years old, assuming the $50/credit is not a deterrent, it might be worthwhile to double check with NCCRS to ensure the courses are still valid for NCCRS credit before moving forward.

All things considered, it does not seem like a particularly great option.

[dfrecore]

Thanks for the reply. I'll go check lawshelf to see if any courses interest me. Good observation about the additional proctoring fee. I didn’t factor that extra expense in, but I still feel happy about sharing this information in case someone is interested. The website mentions the courses transfer into TESU's Master of Science in Management. They accept 12 credits which might be worthwhile to someone here. The link below from the school has an email of an admin that might offer more information that could be shared here.

https://www.aeiclaimslaw.com/ce/college-credit

The website mentions this text:
TESU offers a graduate degree, Master of Science in Management, which requires 36 credits, 12 of which can come from AEI work. For graduate degree credit, a research project is required for each AEI course. This project will involve a topic relevant to the course in question as determined by AEI's Director of Education. It must be 5-7 typewritten pages. There is a $50 fee per course (graduate level only).

I did see that.  You'd have to write 12 5-7 page research papers, and take 12 exams.  But TESU's MSM is quite pricy - $17,500 with the AEI courses, without any proctoring fees.  You can get a whole host of other degrees for a lot less.

Just an FYI, LawShelf is only $20/cr, and they have Graduate-level courses as well.

[Avidreader]

I appreciate the lawshelf link. There are three courses that seem like a lot of fun that would give my 9 credits. Are these RA or ACE credit? Thanks

[ss20ts]

If you haven't yet selected a school to go with then you may want to avoid NCCR as not nearly as many schools accept NCCR credits.

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I appreciate the lawshelf link. There are three courses that seem like a lot of fun that would give my 9 credits. Are these RA or ACE credit? Thanks

Definitely not RA credit as they're not from an RA college.

[rachel83az]

LawShelf are NCCRS, not RA or ACE.

[bjcheung77]

@Avidreader, So, I guess you're trying to 'hack' the Bachelors to Masters option at TESU? They allow you to take 12 graduate credits at the undergraduate rate, you can take the AEI/LawShelf courses if they come in as Grad credit TESU for their MS Management elective credits (which are different than the 12 Bach to Masters credits). You just need to pay the grad tuition rate for the remaining 12 credits, if you 'hack' this properly using Pell Grant and tuition assistance/reimbursement, it'll be worthwhile, otherwise... Other less expensive and faster options exist!