COSC bad rep? TESU shooting self in foot?

[ReyMysterioso]

I got my "box-check" BSBA from COSC and I don't have any real complaints. Customer service was great. I got an effective answer to any question efficiently, and on a couple questions, my student advisor would loop me in on an email she sent to a higher-up so we'd all be on the same page with a definitive answer.
TESU stopped accepting Shmoop right after I had racked up a whole bunch of Shmoop credits. That's what essentially made the decision for me.
COSC did require more UL courses. You're right that it essentially doesn't have any reputation at all.

If I had it all to do over again, to be honest, I think I would've done either Marshall U's Regents Bachelor of Arts degree or a WVU RBA because they're both bigger/better "brand" names. I didn't find out about them until I was halfway through my capstone course, and it'd have been silly to abandon ship then.

I'm currently churning on an ALM in English through Harvard Extension, and that's my Master's plan. But should that fall through due to cost or job-change or some other factor, I have half a mind to get a second bachelor's in English from TESU. I agree with the opinions that the name "...State University" does sound better than College.

I can sympathize in that I also live in the Deep South - Oxford, MS specifically. Home of U of Mississippi (aka 'Ole Miss'). And frankly, I'm concerned that it raises flags that I've lived right where there's a popular state college with notoriously low admission standards - but have an online degree from some obscure place in New England absolutely nobody has ever heard of. But then again I'm also 41, with a good work history and portfolio of work, so hopefully it's not an issue.

I also am concerned about potentially having an Ivy League degree in the official statistically worst state. But ultimately, I intend to move out of the region altogether and never look back, so there's that.