Cost comparison/ TESU vs Excelsior

[bluebooger]

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."

and this will be out of date at the end if of this month because sophia will no longer be free           

that's why that kind of information should not be included in these breakdowns                

everything is a different price ... 
price for military, for civilians, for study.com partners, for sophia partners, for people who take sophia for free, for people who use modern states, for blah blah blah

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GGU has a program with Study.com called Aspire...

what the hell is GGU

[amberwalk]

I have coopersmith credits so COSC is out plus I dont think they will take some of my old RA courses and they have the new requirement for RA's

[bjcheung77]

GGU 1: https://www.ggu.edu/admissions/undergrad...-and-fees/
GGU 2: https://www.ggu.edu/press-room/news/2019...-com-07-19
GGU 3: https://blog.sfgate.com/storystudio/2019...s-degrees/

[ss20ts]

GGU 1: https://www.ggu.edu/admissions/undergrad...-and-fees/
GGU 2: https://www.ggu.edu/press-room/news/2019...-com-07-19
GGU 3: https://blog.sfgate.com/storystudio/2019...s-degrees/

If only they had a functioning website! They have a MS in Marketing with 3 options for concentrations and none of the links for this works. Guess it's not my dream school.

[karenmandatos]

But you only need to take 7 credits at EC, based in my numbers, once you get your credits it is about 3500-4000$, i'm wrong?

[amberwalk]

COSC will be the cheapest, then EC if you take 12cr there - TESU will cost too much I think (unless you take 16cr with them).

COSC (w/SL or Study.com discount)
Application Fee                                $50
Student Services Fee (Per-term fee)  $266
Technology Fee (Per-term fee)          $68
Cornerstone (3cr)                            $1,131
Capstone (3cr)                                $1,131
Graduation Fee                               $203
TOTAL                                           $2,848 (1 term) or $3182 (2 terms)
Work pays $2,262
You pay $586 or $920

EC (taking 12cr through them, and using SL or Study.com partner pricing)
Application Fee                                   $0  
Enrollment Fee                                   $0
Information Literacy (1cr)                    $410
- Technology Fee                                $20  
Cornerstone (3cr)                               $1,230
 - Technology Fee                               $60  
Capstone (3cr)                                   $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Any course (3cr)                                 $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Any course (3cr)                                 $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Graduation Fee                                  $260  
TOTAL                                              $5,850
Work pays $5,590
You pay $260

TESU (no discounts available)
Application Fee                                 $ 50
Cornerstone (3cr)                           $1,527

Capstone (3cr)                                 $1,527

Residency Waiver                             $3,192

Graduation Fee                                $298

TOTAL                                            $6,594
Work pays $3,054
You pay $3,540

TESU (taking 16cr at the school)

Application Fee                                 $ 50

Cornerstone (3cr)                           $1,527

Capstone (3cr)                             $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (1cr)                           $509

Residency Waiver                         $0

Graduation Fee                                $298

TOTAL                                            $8,492
Work pays $8,144
You pay $348

GGU has a program with Study.com called Aspire, and it's $300/cr to take courses at GGU.  There's a discounted quarterly rate at Study.com.  So your company would end up paying all of the GGU tuition ($300/cr x 30cr) and I don't think there are many fees besides that, but you'd have to check.

There are other schools where this is similar - almost all of the costs are tuition, no fees, and so your company would foot the bill.  They take ACE credits, most of them up to 90cr worth, and then you have to take 30cr at the school.  I know of like 10 of them.

Thank you for this!!!
Do the Uexcel exams count as credit through EC?  I am already scheduled to take the Social Psychology exam.  If so, i would only need the Info Lit (1) Corner and Cap (6) and one other EC 3 credit course?

[cecilgambe7]

Thank you for this!!!
Do the Uexcel exams count as credit through EC?  I am already scheduled to take the Social Psychology exam.  If so, i would only need the Info Lit (1) Corner and Cap (6) and one other EC 3 credit course?

Sure, UExcel are the exams of Excelsior College, they are always valid credits for EC, and also easy to transfer COSC and TESU (but you need to check transfer equivalence if you plan to transfer)

[ss20ts]

COSC will be the cheapest, then EC if you take 12cr there - TESU will cost too much I think (unless you take 16cr with them).

COSC (w/SL or Study.com discount)
Application Fee                                $50
Student Services Fee (Per-term fee)  $266
Technology Fee (Per-term fee)          $68
Cornerstone (3cr)                            $1,131
Capstone (3cr)                                $1,131
Graduation Fee                               $203
TOTAL                                           $2,848 (1 term) or $3182 (2 terms)
Work pays $2,262
You pay $586 or $920

EC (taking 12cr through them, and using SL or Study.com partner pricing)
Application Fee                                   $0  
Enrollment Fee                                   $0
Information Literacy (1cr)                    $410
- Technology Fee                                $20  
Cornerstone (3cr)                               $1,230
 - Technology Fee                               $60  
Capstone (3cr)                                   $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Any course (3cr)                                 $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Any course (3cr)                                 $1,230
- Technology Fee                                $60  
Graduation Fee                                  $260  
TOTAL                                              $5,850
Work pays $5,590
You pay $260

TESU (no discounts available)
Application Fee                                 $ 50
Cornerstone (3cr)                           $1,527

Capstone (3cr)                                 $1,527

Residency Waiver                             $3,192

Graduation Fee                                $298

TOTAL                                            $6,594
Work pays $3,054
You pay $3,540

TESU (taking 16cr at the school)

Application Fee                                 $ 50

Cornerstone (3cr)                           $1,527

Capstone (3cr)                             $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (3cr)                           $1,527
Any course (1cr)                           $509

Residency Waiver                         $0

Graduation Fee                                $298

TOTAL                                            $8,492
Work pays $8,144
You pay $348

GGU has a program with Study.com called Aspire, and it's $300/cr to take courses at GGU.  There's a discounted quarterly rate at Study.com.  So your company would end up paying all of the GGU tuition ($300/cr x 30cr) and I don't think there are many fees besides that, but you'd have to check.

There are other schools where this is similar - almost all of the costs are tuition, no fees, and so your company would foot the bill.  They take ACE credits, most of them up to 90cr worth, and then you have to take 30cr at the school.  I know of like 10 of them.

Thank you for this!!!
Do the Uexcel exams count as credit through EC?  I am already scheduled to take the Social Psychology exam.  If so, i would only need the Info Lit (1) Corner and Cap (6) and one other EC 3 credit course?

UExcel are transfer credit basically. You do not get EC resident credit for UExcels.