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List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers
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Hello all, thanks for all the information here!

I'm looking for a list of transfer-friendly schools that will waive general education for students with a previous Bachelor's degree.

My background and why I'm looking for this:
In my particular case, I got a regionally accredited degree in Music Performance at the Manhattan School of Music straight out of high school. This degree did *not* require traditional gen eds like English, STEM, psychology, or anything like that. All my general education were in humanities and some history classes but even those were more culturally/arts focused so were arguably still just humanities courses. The rest were major classes in music performance, composition, ensemble, etc.

I've since dropped ambitions of being a full time performing musician. I've done well for myself in the audio visual industry. Started recording engineering for my alma mater and work in live event production. I'm now a full time A1 live audio engineer and general AV technician and these days that entails junior network engineering responsibilities as audio is traveling over networks via Dante protocol. Video over NDI/ST2110 or similar. Programming is also useful for creating AV control systems.

Anyway, long story short my work is getting more and more technical and I feel limited in my career by my lack of a true STEM/technical undergrad degree.

When I've gotten evaluations from schools that don't have this policy and evaluate on a course-by-course basis, I'm always told I have to take more English, Communication, Psych/sociology, Physics and other general ed requirements that I'd prefer not to have to do if possible.

Other schools have stated that because I have a previous RA bachelor's, all gen ed requirements are automatically considered "met" and I get a bunch of credits off the bat. All of these have the same caveat that certain gen eds like Calculus for CS or Physics for Engineering if they are a major requirement, will still need to be taken of course.

Through my own research I've found the following schools with such policies:
WGU
UMPI

SNHU - waived all gen eds except their Diversity/Sustainability requirement (1 class)
TESU - I never got an eval nor is it stated on their website but members here state that this is their policy
ODU - Old Dominion University - waives all "lower division" gen eds but still requires more "upper division" gen eds

I'm sure there are more schools like this, and I know I can't be the only one with this question. Please let me know what other schools have this policy. Bonus points if the school has a good selection of STEM BS degrees available with reasonable tuition.

Personally I'm currently leaning towards the TESU BACS degree but still exploring options.

Thanks in advance
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List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - by azmusic - 07-19-2024, 06:05 PM

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