Need update, what has changed?

[bjcheung77]

StoicJ, you may want to do another evaluation for the BSBA CIS and see how many courses you are missing and complete the upper level requirements with Study.com and lower level with SL/Sophia or continue using Study.com - If you've already completed the ASNSM Comp Sci, some of those courses may transfer over to the CIS and it'll be easier to complete than a General Management AOS. With so many changes going on with TESU, you should evaluate your options...

On a side note TESU recently removed the option to pay $70/$75 to extend the enrollment year, but if you have taken a course or TECEP with them before (have been enrolled before) even if your catalog year has expired, you have up to 3 years to retain it, so... you get to keep your 2018 catalog vs going for a BALS on the 2020 catalog, the SOS110 would be a new requirement. Your main decision actually is to pay the residency waiver OR take 16 credits with them...

[StoicJ]

StoicJ, you may want to do another evaluation for the BSBA CIS and see how many courses you are missing and complete the upper level requirements with Study.com and lower level with SL/Sophia or continue using Study.com - If you've already completed the ASNSM Comp Sci, some of those courses may transfer over to the CIS and it'll be easier to complete than a General Management AOS.  With so many changes going on with TESU, you should evaluate your options...

On a side note TESU recently removed the option to pay $70/$75 to extend the enrollment year, but if you have taken a course or TECEP with them before (have been enrolled before) even if your catalog year has expired, you have up to 3 years to retain it, so... you get to keep your 2018 catalog vs going for a BALS on the 2020 catalog, the SOS110 would be a new requirement.  Your main decision actually is to pay the residency waiver OR take 16 credits with them...

Hmm, I was enrolled in BUS421 in 2018 but stopped partway in. So maybe I still have some good options open. Like I said, I'll call them and get updated. Yeah, the choices with TESU seem to be take 6 courses with them or pay the enormous waiver and still take 1 or 2 with them.

As I recall, at the time General Mgmt was the cheapest and easiest option. Finance was in the cards but the UL options were more expensive. And CIS, probably the same UL cost difference. But options seem to have changed a lot in the last couple of years.

I see you earned your BSBA. Congratulations!

[StoicJ]

OK, turns out my options with TESU are as expected. Status inactive, but just went to that less than a month ago. Could perhaps get approval to remain on the old catalog, but even then the large waiver still applies. Looks like I am going to move forward on the UotP path.

[satori]

StoicJ, you may want to do another evaluation for the BSBA CIS and see how many courses you are missing and complete the upper level requirements with Study.com and lower level with SL/Sophia or continue using Study.com - If you've already completed the ASNSM Comp Sci, some of those courses may transfer over to the CIS and it'll be easier to complete than a General Management AOS.  With so many changes going on with TESU, you should evaluate your options...

On a side note TESU recently removed the option to pay $70/$75 to extend the enrollment year, but if you have taken a course or TECEP with them before (have been enrolled before) even if your catalog year has expired, you have up to 3 years to retain it, so... you get to keep your 2018 catalog vs going for a BALS on the 2020 catalog, the SOS110 would be a new requirement.  Your main decision actually is to pay the residency waiver OR take 16 credits with them...

Thanks, I didn't know that.  So is there a reason to take a TECEP every year to maintain enrollment rather than every other (or third) year?  Just to get the unlimited evaluations (which may not be worth it if your entire program is pre-planned)?

[icy]

Walkingstick shows 2 degree evaluations with reports dated 07/24/20. ASNSM Computer Science, and BSBA General Management. Catalog year 2018 for both. Program Summary for the ASNSM shows complete. Summary for BSBA shows me needing to complete 8 courses plus the capstone. TES-100 says "Waived". I completed some Study.com courses that transferred over.

Does all this sound promising? What is the cost for the TESU Capstone now? How much is the waiver?

The cornerstone and capstone are each 3-credit courses, so you're looking at 3 x $519 each or $1,557 per course ($1,197 in-state). The residency waiver is $3,192 and graduation fee is $298 for a total of $6,604 ($5,884 in-state) plus whatever you pay for the courses you take elsewhere.

Maybe ... I would be very quiet and try to keep your old plan. Maybe nobody will notice the break and you'll keep the old catalog.

Yeah, I was thinking something might fall apart when I get Moodle fixed. The plan WAS to finish by getting 9 credits via Saylor, and 15 via Study. At Study I was pretty much done with 3 courses. I need to see what still transfers.

I COULD get all credit by exam done by January, then do the Capstone and apply for graduation. A few hundred dollars for CBE, Capstone cost ($397 x 3 ?), and residency waiver (GEEZ, I just looked, $3192?). So $5000 or so plus graduation fees. That doesn't look so good.

Considering your enrollment status will have expired by now, it is very likely that when you reapply to TESU to move back into applied status, they will reset your catalog to the current one and you'll lose your cornerstone waiver (TES-100 isn't even an option any longer). So you should also plan to take SOS-110 (cornerstone) as well as the capstone. Both of those are 3 credit courses, and if you're not a NJ resident, that means $519 per credit not $379 per credit (since the Study.com discount doesn't exist anymore).

If you take 16 credits at once at TESU, you qualify for flat rate and residency waiver. Saves a small amount of money.

Well, if you can avoid the residency fee and pay the full-time flat-rate tuition, that will save quite a bit of money. However, you have to take 6 courses instead of 2 directly from TESU (18 credits) to make that possible. You only need 16 credits but its easier to do 18 than 16 and the cost is the same either way.

If you do a 114 credit transfer, you're looking at taking the cornerstone and capstone at TESU (6 credits x $519 per) so per-credit tuition of $3,114 + residency waiver of $3,192 + graduation fee of $298 for a total of $6,604 ($5,884 in-state) plus whatever you pay for the courses you take elsewhere.

If you take 6 courses (18 credits) from TESU directly (which is cornerstone + capstone + 4 additional courses) you can avoid the residency waiver fee and only pay $4,639 flat-rate tuition + graduation fee of $298 for a total of $4,937 ($3,877 in-state) plus whatever you pay for courses taken elsewhere.

So you're looking at a savings of $1,667 ($2,007 in-state) which is a decent amount of change. But it does require taking 4 additional courses with TESU, which are all 15-week courses with no option to accelerate.

Hi, I’m wondering if the 6 courses taken directly with TESU have a time frame they have to be completed in? Can they be taken spaced out over a few years?


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[bjcheung77]

@icy, if you have tuition assistance, you can take half one year and another half the following year.
If you don't have tuition assistance, then you can try spacing it out a little longer than that. So, yes.

[Merlin]

Hi, I’m wondering if the 6 courses taken directly with TESU have a time frame they have to be completed in? Can they be taken spaced out over a few years?

There is no minimum timeframe. In fact, they are intended to be spread out over multiple years.

The cornerstone course is intended to be the first course you take at TESU and the capstone is intended to be the last course you take at TESU. Between the two you have 114 credits to be earned, which for most people means 3-5 years worth of work. Though we try to compress that as much as we can on this forum in order to complete a degree within a year or two.

[tjguitar85]

On a side note TESU recently removed the option to pay $70/$75 to extend the enrollment year, but if you have taken a course or TECEP with them before (have been enrolled before) even if your catalog year has expired, you have up to 3 years to retain it, so... you get to keep your 2018 catalog vs going for a BALS on the 2020 catalog, the SOS110 would be a new requirement. Your main decision actually is to pay the residency waiver OR take 16 credits with them...

Did they get rid of the 1 credit TECEP, or do TECEPs no longer extend the enrollment year?

And waht about for purposes of extending the validity date of your student ID (E.G. for student discounts that have value that are greater than the cost of the 1 credit TECEP)

[rachel83az]

There is only one 1-credit TECEP (Medical terminology) and it is still there. It still extends the enrollment year.

[tjguitar85]

There is only one 1-credit TECEP (Medical terminology) and it is still there. It still extends the enrollment year.

Interesting - so when it was mentioned that they removed the option to extend enrollment for $70/$75, they must have been referring to some other method besides registering for the TECEP.