BSBA CIS or BSAST IT

[icampy]

TESU CS has a wall of math (calc 1, calc 2, linear algebra/discrete math).

The BSAST as well as the WGU IT degrees have not been discussed here much in the past, but I think they should be explored a lot more even though they have their own pesky requirements.[/QUOTE]

aaand that is why I am deciding between IT and CIS or cosc cyber security. Can get by without high level math.
Just dont have rhe time to attend a school where they set goals with time frames like WGU.

[RRMIKE]

TESU BSBA CIS is a business degree with a light amount of IT. It has a bunch of business courses, and very little room for anything else. You may end up disappointed with a bunch of business classes still required to graduate even though you've cleared all of the CIS courses with your IT credits. I think the SL business courses are very easy compared to other options, so don't let a huge number of unmet business courses necessarily dissuade you especially if you need a degree quickly.

I was looking at the BSBA CIS and I can easily meet requirements quickly using SL for the business courses, I have completed 2 course at SL in 5 days, so as many class I can take at SL will be faster. If I can keep that up for a while I think I can knock a lot of those courses out (obviously that means giving up social life until I'm done with courses).

I was only thinking the IT because of all the credits I have, however as soon as I get results of my evaluation that will help make a better choice. I'll need some help planning out the degree and where to take required course.

Thanks for all the help guys, I'm always open to advise.

[dfrecore]

I'm reminded of the old Clint Eastwood quote: "Do you feel lucky?" "I don't need any stinking classes or MOOCs on machine learning, linear algebra, cybersecurity, data science, programming in Python, etc..." Sure, you don't need any of those classes to vmotion a VM. But why can't a stinking machine take over your job of vmotioning the VMs?

I have no idea what your husband does, but IMHO there are some areas of IT that are on the decline over the next decade even though IT as a whole is going to grow. IT operations like system admin, network admin, and devops are roles that are on the decline as efficiencies in the job and the move to off-prem cloud accelerates. But moving employment to cloud providers is not the solution. Headcount will still go down as efficiencies improve. The system admin that didn't get on the virtualization bandwagon, doesn't know how to script, or otherwise refuses to learn is probably ancient history already or on the chopping block soon. The network admin that doesn't recognize the threat of SDN will be looking for work in the next decade.

The CS degree allows you to pivot from poor areas in IT to promising areas that will help avoid unemployment like cybersecurity, data science/data analytics, and software development.

He's now in sales (no sys admin, net admin or dev ops now or in his past), so definitely not necessary to get a CS degree. If that was his only option, he would probably change fields, since he has zero interest in that degree. Actually, I don't think a single person that he works with has a CS degree.

Again, I just urge people to look at where they want to go, and then figure out how to get there.

And, if you aren't interested in a CS degree, there are plenty of other options, and other jobs, available that don't require that degree. If you are truly uninterested in (or can't pass) the courses you need to take to get the degree, then you probably won't be that happy with a job where you need to use those skills.

[dfrecore]

I was looking at the BSBA CIS and I can easily meet requirements quickly using SL for the business courses, I have completed 2 course at SL in 5 days, so as many class I can take at SL will be faster. If I can keep that up for a while I think I can knock a lot of those courses out (obviously that means giving up social life until I'm done with courses).

I was only thinking the IT because of all the credits I have, however as soon as I get results of my evaluation that will help make a better choice. I'll need some help planning out the degree and where to take required course.

Thanks for all the help guys, I'm always open to advise.

I would recommend knocking out your Gen Eds while you're waiting for your eval to come through (looks like you're doing that). You can even start sending them to TESU as you complete each SL course (SL will send them directly for free). In case you didn't know, whatever the timeframe is that TESU is telling you they'll complete your eval in, I'm pretty sure they actually hold onto your file until the very last day, and then do it (my experience there, if they tell you 20 business days, it will come in on the 20th business day and not a day before that). So, start sending those in, and they will put everything together, and do it on the 25th day (or whatever they told you) and you will get all those courses in the eval as well, making it much easier for you to plan your degree out.

Once you get the eval on the BSAST IT, you can then say "what if I switched to a BSBA in CIS?" and it will show you what you need to do there. It's very helpful to see which degree is the best to complete at that point.

[RRMIKE]

Ok,

So even tough I'm not enrolled, I can start sending those class? I tough I had to wait until I enrolled, if that's the case then I'll start sending them as I'm finishing them.

Do you have an excel sheet or something to help where I can complete the gen electives? like which course on what institution/sites?

[dfrecore]

Ok,

So even tough I'm not enrolled, I can start sending those class? I tough I had to wait until I enrolled, if that's the case then I'll start sending them as I'm finishing them.

Do you have an excel sheet or something to help where I can complete the gen electives? like which course on what institution/sites?

You can start sending transcripts while you're in the eval period for sure. That's the whole point of the eval, to tell you what your courses come in as. If you don't send in all of them, then what's the point really?

I can give you a spreadsheet, but it's much easier to do if you tell me what courses you've already taken. List on here the course number, course name, number of credits, and grade if less than a C. And if they're computer-related, the year you took the course (that's important at most schools). It should look like this:

School A (CC, semester)
XXX-100 Intro to XXX 3cr (C-)
XXX-156 General XXX 3cr (A)

School B (4-yr RA school, quarter)
XXX-320 Computer Course Name 4cr (C+, 2002)
XXX-400 Course Name 5cr ©

Please don't copy and past from your transcript without editing, it's way too messy and contains a lot of erroneous info that makes it hard to work with. Make it as clean as possible. Write the entire course name out, no abbreviations. Make sure I know the type of school, and whether it's Regionally accredited. And if it's semester-based or quarter-based.

[RRMIKE]

Below I list my transcript from the school I went to in 2000-2001, it is a regional accredited school

Courses I've taken at Technical Career Institutes 2 year, semester

CPN101N (INTRO TO COMPUTER) (3cr) (B+)
VM100 - MATH FOR ELEC (3cr) (B-)
DC100 - DC CIRCUITS LAB (2cr) ©
DC112 - DC CIRCUITS (4cr) (B)
DR122 - DIGITAL LOGIC (4cr) (B)
VM102 - MATH FOR ELEC ll (3cr) (A)
AC121 - AC CIRCUITS (3cr) (B+)
CP102N - COMP APPLICATIONS (3cr) (B+)
EC120 - AC/SEMICONDUCTOR LAB (1cr) (B+)
ENG223 - TECHNICAL WRITING (3cr) (B-)
SC122 - SEMICONDUCTOR CKS (4cr) ©
CPN201N - COMP NETWORKING (2cr) (C+)
CPN202N - COMP NETWORKING LAB (2cr) (A)
CT231 - COMP TECHNOLOGY (4cr) (A)
DR220 - DIGITAL SYSTEMS (3cr) (A)
COM202 - OPERATING SYSTEMS (4cr) (B+)
CP203 - ADV COMPUTER APPL l (3cr) (A)
CP204 - ADV COMPUTER APPL ll (4cr) (A)
CP205 - ADV COMP APPL III (4cr) (A-)
ENG101 - COMPOSITION I (3cr) (B)
COM201 - COMP SCIENCE III (2cr) (A)
CPN213 - NETWORKING VI (3cr) (B+)
CPN218 - INTERNETWORKING/ROUT (3cr) (C-)
EC220 - ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS LAB (1cr) (B+)
EC221 - ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS (3cr) (C+)
HUM111 - CHRITICAL THINKING (3cr) (A)
LIT206 - RUSSIAN LITERATURE (3cr) (A)
MOT200 - MANAGEMENT OF TECH (3cr) (C+)

Course Completed from SL below

Business Ethics (3cr)
Culture Anthropology (3cr)
Intro to Sociology (3cr) - in progress

[icampy]

Does anyone know if you get one of the computer AAS degrees, if they will let you use the AOS credits towards one of these bachelors degrees? Im assuming all the gen ed credits will still work.

[dfrecore]

Yes, any courses you take apply to your BA/BS. It's just a matter of where they will fit into the degree that you choose.

Does anyone know if you get one of the computer AAS degrees, if they will let you use the AOS credits towards one of these bachelors degrees? Im assuming all the gen ed credits will still work.

[icampy]

Ok. I knew about earning a second equal degree, needing new credits in your AOS, I just wanted to be sure that I wouldn't have to do the same thing with an associates to a bachelors, as that would take several test-out options away from the bachelors. Thanks for the info!