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Excelsior History Degree Questions
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Hey guys, I just started pursuing a B.S. in history and am choosing to go with Excelsior over TESU because of the Free Sophia courses.  I am very much new to all of this, I have read through the introduction wiki and have scoured some thresads but still have a few questions.  Please send any helpful links my way for the degree in general.  In regards to GEN Ed requirements, excelsior seems to be very vague.  in the 27 hours of "Additional Arts and Sciences" in the GENED requirements, do they simply mean electives?  If so, does that mean that any Sophia credit applies to them?  US History 1 & 2 are listed to transfer to excelsior as "Social Science", but does anyone know if they will transfer directly to US History 1 & 2 for my major required courses?  Any information, degree plan advice, or links would be helpful.  Thanks in advance!
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(04-12-2020, 01:02 PM)jaxonhart Wrote: Hey guys, I just started pursuing a B.S. in history and am choosing to go with Excelsior over TESU because of the Free Sophia courses.  I am very much new to all of this, I have read through the introduction wiki and have scoured some thresads but still have a few questions.  Please send any helpful links my way for the degree in general.  In regards to GEN Ed requirements, excelsior seems to be very vague.  in the 27 hours of "Additional Arts and Sciences" in the GENED requirements, do they simply mean electives?  If so, does that mean that any Sophia credit applies to them?  US History 1 & 2 are listed to transfer to excelsior as "Social Science", but does anyone know if they will transfer directly to US History 1 & 2 for my major required courses?  Any information, degree plan advice, or links would be helpful.  Thanks in advance!

I would think they would be the CORE History classes.  Look at DSST/Dantes exams as they have lots of history classes.  Some are even UL.
Non-Traditional Undergraduate College Credits (634 SH): *FTCC Noncourse Credits (156 SH) *DSST (78 SH) *CPL (64 SH) *JST Military/ACE (48 SH) *CBA (44 SH) *CLEP (42 SH) *FEMA IS (40 SH) *FEMA EM (38 SH) *ECE/UExcel (30 SH) *PLA Portfolio (28 SH) *EMI/ACE (19 SH) *TEEX/ACE (16 SH) *CWE (11 SH) *NFA/ACE (10 SH) *Kaplan/ACE (3 SH) *CPC (2 SH) *AICP/ACE (2 SH) *Sophia/ACE (2 SH) and *FRTI-UM/ACE (1 SH).
Non-Traditional Graduate College Credits (14 SH): AMU (6 SH); NFHS (5 SH); and JSU (3 SH).
 





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First off, I don't understand what you mean by choosing Excelsior over TESU because of Sophia?  They actually accept about the same amount of credits, except Excelsior will allow the 3 foundation courses into their free electives.  Technically, you can get 75 credits into TESU and up to 80 to Excelsior all with Sophia courses alone. 

The difference is negligible as TESU requires only 18 UL and Excelsior requires 30 UL, it may cost more to get the extra UL in the end and take longer as you may need to head into a test center for DSST exams, etc.   In any case, you should get all the Sophia.org credits and apply them to both and see who will grant more credits and calculate the pricing.

One more thing to note, TESU requires 16 credits and Excelsior requires 12 credits residency if you want to get a cheaper deal on graduation and other fees.  Here's a link for TESU, it'll apply to Excelsior as well, you need to pick 18 UL History courses from this:  https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/My...in_History
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