[New][Help needed] Need some insight/help planning BACS/BSCS

[dfrecore]

I'm no help with Pell grants, or whether or not to pursue a CS degree, but I can help with some degree planning.

BUT, what would be best right now, is for you to post your completed courses here. It's darn near impossible to help you figure out what to do until we know what you've done. List by school, including whether it's a CC or 4-yr college, semester or quarter system, and then the course code and name, credits, and grade if lower than a C.

If you took anything computer-related, you will want to put the year as well, since it will matter. Most everything else will not.

Here is some info on programs you might be interested in (we can help you find the Gen Ed courses you might need, along with any other courses you could cheaply and easily complete):

TESU: BA in Computer Science - Thomas Edison State University: Computer Science - minimum cost for this degree is $4198 for the application, the 1cr cornerstone course, the 3cr capstone course, residency waiver fee, and graduation fee. This is not counting all of the other courses you would need to complete, but MANY of those are probably already done, or can be gotten through testing or inexpensive online courses.

WGU BS in Software Development - Bachelor Degree in Software Development | Online IT Degree - competency-based degree, meaning you pay for time rather than per class. It's $2890 for a 6-month term, you could probably do all of your courses in that time-period. Of course, that's assuming you've completed the Gen Ed requirements, which can be done in a variety of ways. We can help with that.

Hodges University also has a BS in SW Dev - Software Development - Bachelor's Degree | Hodges University - and it's also a competency-based program (UPOWER) for $2750/6-mo term. They accept CLEP & DSST exams, and are pretty lenient on their general education courses, so that may work as well.

Anyway, post everything, and check out the programs to see if any of them interest you, and we can go from there.