Degree Plan for Biology

[cookderosa]

Afternoon everybody,

Does anyone have a degree plan for TESU for a Bachelor of Arts in Biology? It would really help me out.


Thank you for your time!

The degree you're considering is a double- whammy in terms of "hard to complete" and you won't see many (any?) here with it because of 2 main reasons.
(1) TESU doesn't offer all the classes you need, so you'll have to find them somewhere else. Not all colleges allow you to just sign up and take a class, so this issue can be challenging.
(2) Cost.
An important consideration for this degree is how you'll pay for your upper level courses and science labs. While it is true that you can take them somewhere and transfer them over, you're looking at no less than $10,000 to do that- and you won't be able to use financial aid at 2 schools to do that (TESU + somewhere else), so you'll have to technically apply for financial aid at the school where you'll be taking your sciences instead of TESU. I paid cash out of pocket for my sciences- and my lab sciences cost more than my entire AA and BA degree combined.
While it wasn't mentioned in the thread, my advice is to seriously look at taking your core sciences at your in-state community college (many offer distance learning) because this will be the best potential for saving cash. If your local CC offers tuition in the $100 range, you'll cut the costs WAY down. You''ll still have the (expensive) hurdle of filling in your upper level credits, which you should figure out ahead of starting this degree.