BAin4weeks 2022?

[LevelUP]

How fast can you test out of a degree?

Depends on 3 factors
1. How many hours are you going to study per week?
2. How efficient are you in studying?
3. Which alt credit provider is the quickest and easiest to test out of?

Alt Course Providers
CLEPs which I have done many aren't fast to do. They take 10-20hrs each. Still a lot faster than in-person classes which is why college students should use them to same time/money on school. Best for low-hanging fruit like English Comp, Analysis Lit, College Math, or any course you could test out of with almost no studying. 

If you can pass the CLEP or Peterson practice exam, then you can pass the CLEP easily. Check out Peterson Master the CLEP guide.

Study.com limits you to 5 courses per month, so in 1 month and 1 day, you could do 10 courses at most. 

Saylor is cheap but a waste of time as it takes a long time to study for those exams and there is a high failure rate.

Straigherline could be fast for some people with the open book tests though it will get expensive. 

OnlineDegee is cheap but takes a long time and there is a timer set for each video that you must watch. Some of those courses could take 40 hours to do. This is NCCRS credit which most schools don't take.

Sophia is generally going to be the fastest/cheapest method for most people.

TESU College
For TESU, you, in theory, could gather up your credits fast, then take the cornerstone/capstone. You then have a choice of cruising through the cornerstone/capstone taking 10hrs a week for 3 months or spending 30hrs a week and finishing it in a month.  

So 1 month to gather up credits + 1-month cornerstone/capstone = 2 months minimum time in theory.

However, you will need 24RA credits, so you add the time it takes to get those through TECEPs or other means. TESU works best for people transferring in RA credit from another college.

UMPI College
UMPI, you could gather up the credits, then take 3 months to complete the degree. (1.5 sessions)

PUG College
This college has a professional studies degree that in theory could be pretty quick. I got a PHP cert in one day and that one cert is worth 7 courses or 39 credits at PUG. We haven't had anyone that reported back on that degree yet so it's not clear how fast it would take to do 8 courses at PUG. Maybe 2-3 months?

WGU College
Someone did a computer science degree in 2 months at WGU after they gathered up the max transfer credits. However, just doing the Calculus course could take some people 1-2 months to do.

Conclusion
Generally, we tell people that you can get a degree in 6-12 months if you put 20 hours a week into your studies. 

Check out the sample degree plans on the Wiki, sign up for free to Sophia, and give some courses a try. You should be able to do the math how long it will take you.

[dfrecore]

I think you can still test out of all but the cornerstone/capstone requirements. Between TECEP, UExcel, CLEP, DSST, Coopersmith and Davar, it is possible. Not for every conceivable degree, but Liberal Studies, Psych, Business, maybe History (can't remember that one).

You're also limited on schools - EC and TESU, probably not COSC any more since they won't take NCCRS credit.

So you can get all off your credits allowed to transfer in at each school: 114cr to TESU, 113cr to EC, all of your UL, etc. But then you'll have to enroll and take a minimum of 2 courses (3 at EC).

For a competency-based school, you can bring in up to 90cr, but UMPI has some stuff you can't "test" out of although you can still bring them in via alt-credit, like a lab science or a hands-on art course (I guess if you had taken Studio Art or Drawing in high school and then passed the AP Art exam, they might give you credit there).

At both WGU and UMPI though, you're only testing out 90cr max, and then enrolling and taking your final 30cr (minimum) there.

[rachel83az]

Assuming that we are taking "testing out" to mean "writing no papers", I don't think you can do that with History at either EC or TESU. IIRC, both require a historiography course. That requires 3 papers at SDC. Not counting that course, there are also only 9 UL credits available via exams (2 at Coopersmith, 1 UExcel), so you'd have to take at least 1 additional SDC course. Everything else can be done by exam.

[ashkir]

BAin4Weeks is long gone. This used to work. However, with the capstone requirements at the Big 3 like it tells you, it takes longer than 4 weeks now. TESU's capstones are now I believe 12 weeks? You can finish an entire UMPI BA with Sophia + UMPI only in 16 weeks, for cheaper than taking TESU's capstone. Taking just TESU's capstone is very hard to do now.

None of the big 3 are 1 course anymore. Most require 6 to 9 credits now.

University of Maine is simply faster because you can do all your work in one week for a class, versus it spread out across an entire term. You can spread it out across an entire term if you want or go faster. It's the best we have right now.

[rachel83az]

I forgot that Coopersmith now has "The History of Food Trucks" that is supposed to be UL History. Don't know if it would transfer to TESU, though.

[LevelUP]

Well since this page was made, may as well link to it
BAin4Weeks Wiki Link

That pretty much summarizes many DF members' opinions on the previous method of BAin4Weeks.

[dfrecore]

I forgot that Coopersmith now has "The History of Food Trucks" that is supposed to be UL History. Don't know if it would transfer to TESU, though.

It comes into TESU as HIS-399.

[arcangel27]

So I am attempting to join up with WGU, but I may not be able to get in until june. Could I start testing out/taking study.com courses to start up now?

[ROYISAGIRL]

I forgot that Coopersmith now has "The History of Food Trucks" that is supposed to be UL History. Don't know if it would transfer to TESU, though.

Omg that's a course? I need that in my life

[rachel83az]

I forgot that Coopersmith now has "The History of Food Trucks" that is supposed to be UL History. Don't know if it would transfer to TESU, though.

Omg that's a course? I need that in my life

I know, right? I just wish Coopersmith used RPNow. I'd be all over that.