EC Marketing Degree Roadmap

[Capribra]

Hello,

Very new here trying to get a sense of the whole process. I'm interested in a marketing degree from EC, and was wondering if anyone had a complete list of CLEP/DSST tests that will fulfill my degree requirements.

I would EXTREMELY appreciate any guidance!!


Thanks,
~Keith

[MISin08]

I'm not sure if anyone pursuing a Marketing degree at EC has posted their degree plan, but there are others who have posted their plans in the forum.
There's a lot of collective experience in the postings.

Basically you have a general education distribution to satisfy (very doable with CLEP/DSST), a business core (mostly available via CLEP/DSST, some exceptions), and business electives. The electives for a business degree with no "concentration" are available by exam (choices a bit limited though); the electives for a concentration (Marketing is a concentration) -- it depends. A Marketing concentration will require credits that there aren't CLEPs or DSSTs for, but TESC (another fine school you'll read about on this forum) has exams in Marketing that may fit.

A good way to get started (apart from reading forums) is to download EC's catalog and their Student Guide to credit by examination, which shows what exams fulfill what requirements. EC's website can be a bit of a maze (& you need to have a login to do much), but on the publications download page there's a wealth of info. Then you compare the requirements to what credit you may already have, and the difference is your tentative roadmap. I say 'tentative' because the school is the final authority on what credits will transfer and what the requirements are for a degree.

What exams to take in what order will depend on what you already know/have credit for, how comfortable you are with taking standardized tests, and variables like how fast you want to do this. Some exams have related content which makes it easier to cluster them (Supervision and Management, for example) to take advantage of your study time and build your knowledge.