In-house credit

[defscarlett]

Is there any college out there that will accept all transfer credit for a degree? If not what school has the least amount of credit you need to take to get a degree from there?

[Jonathan Whatley]

Is there any college out there that will accept all transfer credit for a degree? If not what school has the least amount of credit you need to take to get a degree from there?

Note that in-house requirements are often called "residency" or "in residence" requirements, though this usually doesn't necessarily mean physically at the institution.

These are for bachelor's degrees. For associate's degrees, IIRC TESC has some or all allowing all-transfer, Excelsior now requires a 3 sh capstone, and COSC requires a 3 sh cornerstone (but not an additional capstone).

Requires a 3 sh capstone course in-house (for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration only, rather than an instructed course, this can be taken as a TECEP written test):
Thomas Edison State College

Requires a 3 sh capstone course in-house; also note the 1 sh Information Literacy requirement, but this can be a course transferred in:
Excelsior College

Requires a 3 sh cornerstone and a 3 sh capstone course in-house:
Charter Oak State College

For the three-year, 90 credit (semester hour) Bachelor of General Studies (B.G.S.) degree ONLY, no in-house requirements:
Athabasca University

Athabasca is a Canadian public university but also holds U.S. regional accreditation. Athabasca does NOT accept CLEP or DSST credit toward their degree requirements. The "Big Three" above all do. You should expect that Athabasca won't accept credit from other noncollegiate ACE CREDIT or National CCRS providers like Straighterline. Athabasca does appear to accept at least some ECEs, and I'd hold out more hope for TECEPs, because the sources are accredited colleges.

The facts that the B.G.S., the one Athabasca degree that's so liberal with transfer credit, is (a) a three-year 90 sh degree, and (b) that although it holds U.S. RA, it's from an address physically outside the U.S., may limit the degree's full acceptance; it may not be counted as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree in some contexts.

This said, if you're bringing in transfer credit from sources Athabasca does accept, the fact that the degree is 90 sh instead of 120 could make it faster to complete.

[defscarlett]

For TESC do other Bachelor's programs besides BS or Bus Admin. have an additional residency requirement besides capstone?

[sanantone]

Technically, TESC has no residency requirements. In reality, it has a 3-credit residency requirement because almost all of the programs either require a capstone or current trends and applications to be taken at TESC. I believe the bachelor of health sciences programs do not have a capstone, but I think they require professional certification. The BSBA with its various concentrations has a capstone too, but it can be transferred in as strategic management or business policy from another school (regionally-accredited or ACE approved) or you can test out of it with a TECEP. That's it. There are no other courses you have to take at TESC.