UPI Study

[Phracker Jacks]

I wanted to start a thread for UPI Study (University Pathways International) transfer results, especially for TESU.
UPI has its own TESU transfer/equivalency page, and TESU also lists UPI as an approved provider:

UPI -> TESU:
https://www.upistudy.com/pages/tesu

TESU Approved Provider Directory:
https://www.tesu.edu/admissions/methods-...ectory.php

There are also some useful community-created transfer guides, including MajorMash:
https://www.majormash.com/

I signed up for UPI a while back mainly as a way to work through some of the Gen Ed gaps on my TESU evaluation. The lifetime-access option was a big reason I went with it because it takes some of the pressure off — I can work through courses at my own pace instead of worrying about a subscription clock.
There are also quite a few Computer Science courses I am interested in. Some would basically be repeating subjects I studied years ago, but most schools will no longer accept those older credits because of their age, so UPI could be a useful way to refresh the material and get current transferable credit at the same time.

One thing I have noticed is that the published TESU information still does not cover everything UPI offers. A number of the Gen Ed courses, including things like English Composition I and II, are not shown in some of the transfer information


UPI also shows two types of mappings:

• Verified by TESU
  
• Reviewed/recommended by UPI, but not yet TESU verified
  

I would especially like to hear from anyone who has transferred one of the UPI-reviewed but not TESU-verified courses. Did TESU actually award the equivalency UPI recommended, or did it come in differently?

A few courses I am personally most interested in seeing current TESU results for are:

• Project Management
  
• CS 373 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  
• CS 251 – Data Structures and Algorithms
  
• CS 381 – Database Programming
  
• CS 390 – Systems Analysis and Design
  
• CS 354 – Introduction to Operating Systems
  
• English Composition II
  
• Physics I / Lab
  

For AI and Data Structures, I am especially interested in how they come in for upper-level credit and whether they can be useful in the CIS area. Even if they do not fit exactly where expected in CIS, upper-level computer-related credit could still be useful in something broader like the BS in Technical Studies.
Project Management is another one I am especially interested in because I have not seen a clear current TESU-verified mapping for it.
When I asked UPI about some of the newer courses earlier, I was told additional ACE/NCCRS reviews and updates were expected around August. At the time, several of the course/syllabus pages were showing pending review.

If anyone has recently transferred UPI courses to TESU, it would be useful to post:
UPI course -> UPI/MajorMash suggested equivalency (if any) -> actual TESU equivalency -> LL/UL -> where it applied
I am particularly interested in courses that are missing from the published list, are UPI-reviewed but not TESU-verified, or were evaluated differently than expected.

It would be useful to build up a current set of real transfer results for UPI rather than relying only on suggested mappings.

[bjcheung77]

Basically, you're at the mercy of TESU's evaluation team, they're going to have to evaluate the classes that haven't been mapped and approved yet in the equivalency list. It's still a work in progress, in other words, a waiting game, I believe the UPI Study team is working to update the list once more classes get looked at...

[Phracker Jacks]

Yeah, I see that UPI has updated the TESU list, and a lot of the common Gen Eds are now covered and marked as verified.

Physics I and Chemistry I are now on the verified list, which is good to see, but the separate Physics and Chemistry labs still are not listed.

I also still do not see English Composition I or II listed as TESU verified. I would expect those to transfer in some form given their current credit recommendations, but it would be nice to have the actual TESU equivalencies confirmed.

English Comp II is one I still need for most of the TESU bachelor’s options I am considering. I already have other writing credit from previous college work, including a writing equivalent and Business Writing, but those do not necessarily replace the specific English Composition II requirement.

Another good addition on the verified list is UPI Discrete Mathematics -> TESU COS-2610 Discrete Structures I. That is especially useful to know because TESU has both a more general Discrete Mathematics course and the Discrete Structures I / II sequence. So seeing exactly how UPI’s course is applied helps a lot when planning a degree that specifically requires Discrete Structures I rather than just any discrete-math credit.

Overall, the updated list is definitely getting better. Most of the basic Gen Ed coverage is starting to look pretty solid; the main things I would still like to see verified are English Comp I/II and the separate Physics/Chemistry labs.