Looking for relatively inexpensive AA/AS degree options.

[RJ77]

another vote to consider looking at BALS (and I wouldn't worry on psych concentration).  you have a lot of UL courses for that. and then use the Gen Ed breakdown as a guide for those lower level courses. If the tool is still around on your student access at TESU, look at the "what if" situation for the BALS and see how that program evaluation could look with "no concentration".

Thank you for your reply and recommendation of the BALS. I did a program evaluation for the general BALS and attached it here. If you or anyone else has any general recommendations from there, I would greatly appreciate it.

[rachel83az]

If you're okay with a BALS, follow the gen ed directions above. Then go through and start to take everything you can at Sophia that doesn't overlap with anything you've got. See https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List for equivalencies. That should fill out your electives and at least most of the LL AOS. Skip business courses and anything with more than 1 or 2 Touchstones. You're probably also not interested in the programming courses. Once you've done as much as you can/want to at Sophia, we can make suggestions for whatever might be left.

But, honestly, I don't know that it'll be that much cheaper (either by time or money) to do a BALS. Personally, I'd rather do a subject degree whenever possible.

If you're still interested in Psych, how are the credits allocated for a BA Psych?

[RJ77]

If you're okay with a BALS, follow the gen ed directions above. Then go through and start to take everything you can at Sophia that doesn't overlap with anything you've got. See https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/So...lency_List for equivalencies. That should fill out your electives and at least most of the LL AOS. Skip business courses and anything with more than 1 or 2 Touchstones. You're probably also not interested in the programming courses. Once you've done as much as you can/want to at Sophia, we can make suggestions for whatever might be left.

But, honestly, I don't know that it'll be that much cheaper (either by time or money) to do a BALS. Personally, I'd rather do a subject degree whenever possible.

If you're still interested in Psych, how are the credits allocated for a BA Psych?

Hello, thanks again for your reply. I ran another evaluation for the BA in Psychology and attached it.
Edit: Strange, the attachment doesn't seem to be working, let me try in a new post.
For some reason it isn't attaching the new evaluation to this post or a new post, despite it being below the max file size, not sure why.

[rachel83az]

Strange. That happens sometimes, not sure why. Can you upload it as an image to imgur or something? If you've got a Google account you don't mind people knowing about, you could upload the PDF to Google Drive and share the link...

[RJ77]

Strange. That happens sometimes, not sure why. Can you upload it as an image to imgur or something? If you've got a Google account you don't mind people knowing about, you could upload the PDF to Google Drive and share the link...

Yeah, not sure what was going on. I put the file on Google Drive, here is a link for the share: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FCBRl2_...share_link

[rachel83az]

If I'm counting right, you'd need 6 Study.com courses for the AOS. Maybe 7, if you need one for the Additional AOS Electives; not sure if a Sophia class would work there. There is a Psych plan here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...egree_Plan

[bjcheung77]

From one 77 to another, it seems you haven't fully decided your degree path and just going by academic evaluations.  You can do many evaluations, but you'll still remain at 52 credits.  At the time being, my only advice is to work on the general education requirements by taking Sophia.org courses.  

Here's an example path I helped map out for a member, Supermind: TESU BALS Psych concentration > Walden MS Psychology > Phi Chi Society member.
Note: He finished the BALS Psych in 9 months for about 5K USD and the MS Psych in two terms (4.5 months out of 6 months) for about 6K USD.

To help us understand your direction more, and to 'start' on your future path, I suggest you complete the missing info in the template and addendum here. https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Area-works

[davewill]

I agree, work on the GenEds for now. The most important thing is to start moving forward. Since most of the TESU degrees you're considering have ample free electives, you might even want to take an alt course or two towards a couple of the AOS possibilities, to help you decide whether you want to pursue them or just the BALS.

[allvia]

If you are currently an active student at TESU you can email them and ask them to ADD evaluations for the degrees that interest you.  I would start with the BALS (since you are closet to completing at the lowest cost), AND have them Add the BALS-Psych, and also Add the BA-Psych.  If you're an active student they will add as many as you request (within reason, they won't add all degrees they offer, but a handful or so they will - I once had half a dozen).  Also that gives you the ability to send in transcripts as you wish, from as many sources as you wish, and see the courses populate. You will like seeing how close you are to being done. 

Do you still have master degree goal (in any area)? You're near 10 years in, are you at the point you 'need' to be done so you can check that bachelor box and move forward professionally?  If you are at the latter, then the BALS gets you there (done!). If you have master goals it may (and only may) make a difference in which degree you land on. For example: you can go for an MBA with a BALS, just the school/program options change - but still plenty to choose from.

[RJ77]

If you are currently an active student at TESU you can email them and ask them to ADD evaluations for the degrees that interest you.  I would start with the BALS (since you are closet to completing at the lowest cost), AND have them Add the BALS-Psych, and also Add the BA-Psych.  If you're an active student they will add as many as you request (within reason, they won't add all degrees they offer, but a handful or so they will - I once had half a dozen).  Also that gives you the ability to send in transcripts as you wish, from as many sources as you wish, and see the courses populate. You will like seeing how close you are to being done. 

Do you still have master degree goal (in any area)? You're near 10 years in, are you at the point you 'need' to be done so you can check that bachelor box and move forward professionally?  If you are at the latter, then the BALS gets you there (done!). If you have master goals it may (and only may) make a difference in which degree you land on. For example: you can go for an MBA with a BALS, just the school/program options change - but still plenty to choose from.

I'm not an active student atm, I need to re-apply. But that sounds like a great idea to have them add the evals once I'm active again. I don't have the Master's goal at this point, I'm just looking to finish what I started for now. Thank you and everyone else who took the time to reply and give lots of good information. I'm going to start doing what a few people have mentioned and start working on the gen ed stuff since I'll need those for basically any degree option I end up going with. Thanks again.