FEMA/TESC Experts, I need your advice

[malcs]

I have a friend who has an AS degree in accounting with about 70 credits, and is a NJ resident.

Would anyone know of a quick plan to use as many FEMA credits as possible, and a few more cleps, to get him a BS degree from TESC? He has many years in his field, and just wants to get a degree in anything to be able to enter BS or BA on a job application.

thanks for your help

[nj593]

I have a friend who has an AS degree in accounting with about 70 credits, and is a NJ resident.

Would anyone know of a quick plan to use as many FEMA credits as possible, and a few more cleps, to get him a BS degree from TESC? He has many years in his field, and just wants to get a degree in anything to be able to enter BS or BA on a job application.

thanks for your help

I have mostly all fema certs and Im still having a problem getting transferred really with TESC. They always detour me into something else and the time between the eval and the app took 1.5 months and now they want to charge me again for the application. I found that Claccumus or however its spelled was the cheapest but, they only have certain times that they really do evals but they are the cheapest somewhere around $30.00 per course not credit. here is the link to that CCC Criminal Justice Department - Emergency Management
As for any other schools there is Frederick i believe which is posted on the FEMA site. But they are expensive but probably the easiest as they are the ones that deal with it the most.
I wanted to give you this feedback. As you will note I have many posts on this site for this very question. There are some very good posts made here made by certain individuals on this area.
Just tell your friend to keep trying and should I get final word on my conquest with TESC I will post them. But they are not easy at TESC. First the app then the eval takes time then they do nothing then you call and get no where hilarious

[annegirl]

TESC will take a maximum of 25 FEMA credits for a bachelor's degree. If your friend was interested in Emergency Management he could use 15 of those credits towards his major. I would not recommend going this route if your friend has no interest as it is a more focused area of study. You might look into the BS in Homeland Security. Others on this forum have indicated that TESC might take more FEMAs for that degree (I wouldn't believe it until I see it, but it has been said)

For most degrees TESC will accept the FEMA courses as free electives. They accept the credit "raw" meaning that you simply request a transcript from FEMA be sent to TESC. You don't have to credit bank or use another college in the process.

[malcs]

Thanks all.

It looks like we will end up with a lot of people educated in disaster preparedness due to these FEMA credits, even if they have no intention of making it a career. It is probably not a bad thing.

[wallst]

Can some one tell me how TESC transcribed FEMA credit in your transcript? Basically I want to know what they put in transcript Like Transfer Equivalence or something else?

TIA

[nj593]

My credit bank says the title of the course with course number and the credit given, no grade obviously.

Can some one tell me how TESC transcribed FEMA credit in your transcript? Basically I want to know what they put in transcript Like Transfer Equivalence or something else?

TIA