Which degree is the most "CLEPable"???

[swisha2k]

Excuse my ignorance, but which degree (BA, or BS) would you consider to be the most CLEPable?

Translation: the degree with the least amount of "actual" classes needed to satisfy your core...

so far the ratio I got for Clep/DSST to Class core credits was

90:30 or 90 credits can be tested out and 30 credits I will have to take in class....
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I hope I'm making sense here...
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[eyrobinson]

At Excelsior, I think the general business, psychology, and sociology concentrations only need about 3-5 courses to take. The rest you can take CLEP, DANTES, EC, and TESC tests.

[gcalvin]

If you pursue a degree from one of the "Big Three" -- Excelsior College, Thomas Edison State College, or Charter Oak State College -- then it is possible to earn a B.A. or B.S. degree 100% (or very, very nearly) by examination. It won't be all CLEP exams, though, as they don't cover the upper-level requirements. You will have to take some DSSTs and probably some ECEs, and depending on your chosen degree, possibly some other exams as well.

Look at Lawrie Miller's BA in 4 Weeks. Online degrees by distance learning. BA degree and graduate degees - Accelerated Master Degrees by Distance Learning. to get started. It's a little bit out of date, but it's still a good place to start. You might consider the on-line FEMA courses too. Do you have any already-earned credits going in? Sketch out a plan for yourself, choose a school, and run your plan past your advisor. Run it by us here in the forum too. Your advisor will tell you whether your plan meets all the requirements. Your "classmates" here in the forum can suggest whether certain exams on your plan can be replaced with easier and/or cheaper alternatives.

To more directly answer your question, I think the Excelsior College Bachelor of Science degree with a major covered by a GRE subject exam is about as "CLEPable" as anything. A major in Psychology with a second depth in History can be satisfied that way. You will probably need to take a "course" to satisfy your Information Literacy requirement, but it's an on-line thing you can do in a day. (There are cheaper alternatives, but the EC course is about as easy as can be.)

-Gary-

[gcalvin]

I almost forgot -- there is another requirement for the EC degree now: the Research and Writing requirement. Check out the Excelsior College Liberal Arts catalog for more information. It's a one-credit course centered around writing a research paper.

-Gary-

[PeteDude]

. . .which degree (BA, or BS) would you consider to be the most CLEPable?

It seems to me there are more business-degree related exams available than there are for any other major, except for maybe psychology. That's why a business degree was the path I planned on for testing out.

[cookderosa]

Excuse my ignorance, but which degree (BA, or BS) would you consider to be the most CLEPable?

Translation: the degree with the least amount of "actual" classes needed to satisfy your core...

so far the ratio I got for Clep/DSST to Class core credits was

90:30 or 90 credits can be tested out and 30 credits I will have to take in class....
\

I hope I'm making sense here...
:confused:

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My bet would be that TESC's Liberal Arts degree is the most CLEPpable. The reason being, that TESC will allow you to earn credit at 200 level or above for your ENTIRE major, and in Liberal Arts, your major isn't restricted to one area. You can use CLEPs in math, science, social science, and humanities. I didn't do the calculation, but I would say you "could" CLEP the entire thing....but that would involve taking exams that might be harder than necessary (ie. learning Spanish!) If you branch out and use DSST exams, you are at roughly the same cost, and you could get 100% done that way- no question in my mind.

If you wanted to get an area of concentration or major, you could still test out at TESC, but you would need to take some EC or TECEP exams. This isn't as complected as it sounds, it just costs more. We have a lot of those test's flash cards here.

I believe that there are no degrees at EC which are 100% through exam because of the 1 credit Information class and the 6 English comp credits. If you are brining in at least 3 credits of English comp, you wouldn't need that class (you can CLEP the other 3 I believe) which helps.
For ME, I didn't want to pay hundreds of dollars for each EC and TECEP exams, so having to do that for all of the 300/400 level courses would be a mark in the "con" column for me due to cost.