Goal: BA or BS in CS or IT

[MrPanda]

Tech  (Mexico) sent a code (TECH2023) for courses up to 300 hours, and it discounted it from the official price of around 600 dollars (when you chat with them, they offer you a discount to a final price of around 400 dollars) to 100 dollars.

So I registered to this course:

https://www.techtitute.com/pe/ingenieria...-aplicadas

Module I is Matemáticas III
Module II is Métodos Matemáticos e Investigación Operativa

Maybe it could be valid for some UL Math in TESU.

It says that the code is still going to be valid for the next 26 hours.

It said that with that code you could only register to one course, but I registered once with Tech Peru and once with Tech Ecuador and it allowed me to register for another course.

I also registered to Diplomado en Lógica Computacional, 150 horas, 6 créditos.

I got a PDF with 3 pages, it mentions your name, ID number, number of credits and the certificate has a verification code at the bottom:





If it´s recognized either by ACEI or by ECE, and if it follows the same rule as ENEB, it should be equivalent to 3 or 2.5 US Credits.

[MrPanda]

I was trying to complete:

BA in CS and Math
BSBA in Operations Management and CIS
Certificate in Organizational Leadership
Certificate in Finance

Reading about the changes that separated some BSBAs between BSBA and BS this way:
BSBA in Accounting / Finance / Human Resources-Organizational Management / Marketing / Operations Managenement
BS in CIS / General Management / Healthcare Management / International Business

I had to decide if I wanted to do:
BSBA in Operations Management
or
BS in CIS

Giving that I´m already completing my BA in CS (I only have Computer Architecture pending as my last Study.com course) and Math (I already have Calculus II from StaighterLine), I´m keeping the BA.

So between BSBA in OPM and BS in CIS, I´m keeping BSBA in OPM.

Now as the 2nd BSBA AOS, I was checking BSBA Finance, and it seems that I already have everything completed, and for the BSBA in HRM/OM, I only need Organizational Theory in SDC, and that one has quizzes completed at 47%.
I had many of those courses as I was completing the certs.

So now I just have to see if I´ll spend USD$ 70 dollars for an additional exam in the next 7 days to take Organizational Theory (I´m currently with a subscription and I want to take Computer Architecture as my 2nd exam this month) to get the BSBA in OPM and HRM/OM or just take BSBA in OPM and Finance.

So now I could get:

BA in CS and Math (unchanged)
BSBA in OPM and HRM/OM or Finance
Cert in Org. Leadership or Finance

[rachel83az]

I think Finance is a good choice. I'm not sure if you can do both Operations Management and HRM/OM. There might be too much overlap?

[MrPanda]

I think Finance is a good choice. I'm not sure if you can do both Operations Management and HRM/OM. There might be too much overlap?

The overlap issue is because of that rule about some additional number of new credits that you need to have in order to add a new AOS?

---

What I would need to check about the overlap before paying for an additional exam in SDC (that would not be necessary if I end with Finance)?

[rachel83az]

To have one degree with two majors/AOS, there needs to be a specific minimum of credits that don't overlap. I forget what that is for BSBA degrees. At least 9, maybe? IIRC, the official wording on the TESU site isn't that clear when it comes to BSBA degrees. It (mostly) only applies to two BA degrees or a BA and a BSBA.

Because Business Core is technically part of the AOS and there is already way more overlap between any two BSBA degrees than is permitted between two BA degrees in one.

For degrees like Marketing and Finance (for instance), it's not that important because there is no overlap in the two concentrations. But Marketing and CIS (back when it was a pure BSBA) might not have been possible because one of the CIS classes is a Marketing class and there was overlap there.

[MrPanda]

One question regarding ENEB, can I use the Master in Supply Chain Management to get credits for the BSBA in OPM or it would "reset" my credits somehow?

As for example, using ECE, I could get this:

"U.S. regionally accredited Bachelor's degree equivalent (accredited)"

https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/ENEB

but then I would have to follow this:

"Foreign Credentials

If a student presents a foreign credential evaluation stating their foreign degree is equivalent to a U.S. baccalaureate degree, then the University will consider it an earned degree and apply all applicable Award of Degree policies. It also may be used for admissions to a master's degree program."

"Complete a minimum of 24 credits including the required capstone for the degree. These credits must be in the area of study and/or core of the degree. These credits must be earned after the date the most recent degree, regardless of academic level, was conferred."

https://iq3prod1.smartcatalogiq.com/en/C...ees-Policy

So, I would need that all my credits were new after getting the ENEB diploma, losing all the previous credits?

I was thinking that I could use ACEI, but for ACEI, the wiki mentions:

"ACEI recommends that graduate transfer credit be awarded for such an evaluation and thus requires a transcript."

But I think that you couldn´t get transcripts from Isabel I but only from ENEB?

"When evaluating these degrees, request the following from the student/candidate: proof of degree from previous studies to help establish the criteria on which the individual was admitted to the titulo propio program and official transcripts from the university showing the courses studied, final grades and most importantly the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) units for each course."

https://acei-global.blog/2015/05/28/spai...lo-propio/

[rachel83az]

Yes, I believe that if you went with an evaluator that says it's a RA degree (Bachelor's or Masters), you would need 24 new credits for each degree. At this point in your journey, I don't think that's feasable.

However, IEE or ACEI could work. I think IEE would be a better choice than ACEI because the wording makes it sound like ACEI wants both transcripts and proof of graduation from a Bachelor's program. I don't think you've graduated from UoPeople yet? IEE seems to take ENEB's word on it that they only accept students who have Bachelor's degrees or equivalents. Based on the IEE evaluation in this post https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid381685 it looks like IEE accepts ENEB transcripts + Isabel I diploma as sufficient for their purposes.

[MrPanda]

Thanks Rachael.

I´ll finish UoPeople in April 2024.

Should I postpone it for some reason?

I thought that since it was NA, it didn´t matter.

Okay, then it could be better to use IEE. I haven´t yet started with ENEB, I have more than 6 months left to do the work.

[rachel83az]

NA doesn't matter for TESU. They don't care. However, it sounds like ACEI would want to see your Bachelor's degree from somewhere (UoPeople or wherever) before they would agree to evaluate ENEB as being a graduate diploma. It sounds like they don't just accept ENEB's word that a degree is a requirement for entry.

[MrPanda]

This one was very close, at least we got the required 70

It´s Davar Academy:



There were many multiple choice questions that to me seemed like they had two correct answers, and there was one question where one of the choices was empty. At least the short-answer questions were directly related to the slides (there was only one short-answer question that I didn´t remember having seen before)