Cost comparison/ TESU vs Excelsior

[TwinMom]

EC has an annual Student Services fee. There's also the Enrollment Fee which is $0 if you take 12 credits a year and there's a fee if you take fewer than 12 credits a year at EC. 

There's an application fee at EC as well. Tuition is also $510 not $410. There's a graduation fee also. Looks like your figures are old figures. This is the current fee structure at EC:

https://www.excelsior.edu/costs-and-fina...rgraduate/

As I said, and if you click on the link in my post, you'll see that the fees are accurate for Sophia students. "Students who have completed at least two Sophia courses are eligible for partnership benefits at Excelsior College."

Sophia does offer a partnership discount on tuition but ONLY if you take 12 credits with them:
 $410*

Non-Partner Price $510

Partners save $100 per credit

*Tuition per credit reverts to the non-partner rate if the student does not complete a minimum of twelve (12) Excelsior College online course credits.

Also, the Enrollment fee is $0 with partnership but ONLY with the 12 cr.: Students who do not complete the required number of Excelsior course credits before graduation will be switched to the Multi-Source option and charged the Multi-Source enrollment fee of $1095.

The Graduation Fee is $130* But ONLY with the 12 cr.

Non-Partner Price $495

Partners save $365

*$260 for students approved for conferral on or after August 26, 2019.

*The Enrollment and Graduation Fees revert to the non-partner rate if the student does not complete a minimum of twelve (12) Excelsior College online course credits prior to completion of a degree program.

So if you don't take the 12 cr. through EC the only discount you get is free application fee (normally $50)

To see the breakdown, go here and click on Tuition & Fees then Associates & Bachelors: https://www.excelsior.edu/partner/sophia/