ronaldemail1 Wrote:The Article ends with the following:
"For other students, it may make more sense to pursue a graduate degree.
Graduate-level courses help working professionals develop higher levels of knowledge, industry specific know-how, stronger critical thinking, analytical and leadership skills. Our graduate degrees require 36 credits for completion – and the good news is your second bachelor's degree credits can be integrated. The 24 new credits, if taken at the graduate level, will satisfy two-thirds of your graduate degree requirements. "
Does this mean that if I want to get BSBA and I get the 24 graduate credits
this would be applied to the Bachelor and the Masters at TESC.
If this is possible, can anybody suggest a place where to get the required graduate courses.
This is their bachelor's to master's program you are talking about. Your 24 credits are taken at TESC. We talk about this from time to time. It's called double dipping. Here's the thing, some school strictly ban it. For instance, let's say I'm working on my BA so I find a school that will let me take a few grad credits before my BA is granted, so I do so and forward them back to my BA to count in my major. The intent is getting a head start on my graduate degree. Double dipping.
Now, some graduate schools disallow any graduate transfer credit used inside an undergrad degree. TESC doesn't disallow it, in fact, they created a program around it. So, like you found, you can enroll in this program and they'll allow you to double dip. So, why doesn't everyone do it? A few reasons:
First off, TESC is a bit expensive for grad credit. It's about $550 per credit, and while that's not considered high end for grad school, it's a little high for a school brand like TESC. (but a fraction of what many for profits charge...but still, when schools like APUS are still in the $300's it doesn't compute to spend so much more at TESC)
Secondly, if you have to quit at the bachelor's for some reason, and don't do a master at TESC, you're screwed. What if you found a better program? Cheaper? Better fit? You are stuck. Beyond the tight and narrow graduate transfer policy you'll find out there at the majority of schools, in this case, you'll likely NOT get to bring in anything you took for your undergrad. That's a *heck* of a lot of risk.
Finally, I don't remember the cost question, I think the policy changed, but these 24 credits used to be at graduate tuition dollars. Meaning, you could end up spending $1650 per class when in many cases, a CLEP/DSST/TECEP would have worked ($100).
I won't include these as an official reasons, but just as a personal opinion, I think that TESC has a crappy selection of grad programs. There are TONS of schools, nearly open enrollement, with awesome grad programs. Too many to mention, so this makes TESC's selection look pretty pale imo.
Also, it seems like more than half the state universities are offering online grad degrees now, so why go to TESC when your state university would be less money, better reputation locally, and connect you with a good alumni community and maybe even award a scholarship?
Just my eleventy-seven cents. hilarious
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