amu or execelsior

[ffdpsoldier]

I'm thinking between american military u, or excelsior . I'm wanting to get a degree in sociology ,or military science which would be better . And I went be returning to active duty army after I graduate from my current school. So I'm going to need a lot of freedom for the classes. I still plan on taking credit by exams as much as possible. But in the mean time I might duel enroll. And can u use ur gibill for clep exams ?

[scorched]

Only real negative I have found about AMU is that they only accept transfer of 90 out of the 120 credit hours.
What's Accepted-Undergraduate
I find this pretty typical in all honesty, the big 3 seem to be the best choices if you want to clep/dsst/ or test by other means out of a degree. Embry Riddle where I am enrolled is similar which is why I am considering the move to Excelsior.

So basically you would need to take 30 hours at $250 which is a decent chunk of change at $7500. They provide the books, so thats good.

Another positive is that they are both RA and NA accredited maybe making it easier to take DETC based classes that can transfer in.

[ffdpsoldier]

I'm not worried about price . I'm not paying lol the military is going to pay for it. I'm just looking for a stress free college that has good teachers. And doesn't require insane work. Not that I'm asking for a easy college but I've had some level 1 classes with 8 plus page papers. .... I might also go for a teaching degree. Not sure what the process and assessments required for that.

[scorched]

well i know your degree is history or sociology, but if you need some free electives in business, finance, operations or information technology check out defense acquisition university.
use your CAC card to login
https://learn.dau.mil/html/login/login.jsp

Here is the equivalency page to see where the credits can transfer.
Defense Acquisition University Equivalency Program

And here is one example for Park University.
Registrar's Office - Course Equivalency - Defense Acquisition University

[CLEP101]

I'm not worried about price . I'm not paying lol the military is going to pay for it. I'm just looking for a stress free college that has good teachers. And doesn't require insane work. Not that I'm asking for a easy college but I've had some level 1 classes with 8 plus page papers. .... I might also go for a teaching degree. Not sure what the process and assessments required for that.

I say, attend both.
But that's just me.

[valsacar]

I'm with EC, also an Army vet. No proctored exams made life MUCH easier when I was AD. I know some people that went to AMU, seemed like they had more work than I did for similar classes.

EC will take pretty much anything ACE approved, so that's a big plus. AMU (if I remember correctly) provides the books as part of tuition, so a plus BUT the Post 9/11 gives 125/3cr course for books... so not a big deal.

You can use the GI bill for clep (talk to VA for specifics), but you can also get them 100% free when you're reserve or AD.

I've been quit happy with with EC, last class will end Dec 15th and I should make the March graduation date! They've taken credits from just about everywhere (clep/dsst, aleks, ARTTS, civilian IT certs, etc).

[sanantone]

I haven't attended either school, but I'm pretty sure EC requires less writing. I believe AMU is a research-based school, so every assignment is pretty much a research paper. I don't know about AMU, but I attended Colorado Tech which was also research-based and I felt like I was doing busy work instead of actually learning something. I could be wrong though. I would ask for syllabi if I were you or ask an advisor about how much work you can expect.

WGU is a good option for a teaching degree depending on the requirements of your state. It's self-paced, but you should expect to do a lot of writing. I don't think social science is offered at the undergraduate level though.

[irnbru]

I haven't attended either school, but I'm pretty sure EC requires less writing.

This might be an 'it depends' situation. I've done one each of the 8 and 15 week online courses and the 15 week cdrom courses. For the 'normal' 15 week online classes there were discussions every week and homework every week; this was pretty manageable. The 8 week online classes were the same with the workload doubled and various additional papers - you can't afford to miss a week. The 15 week CDROM course might appear less of a workload, but the online discussions and weekly set papers really helped shape my understanding of the material for the bigger papers. There are set short essay topics which are optional. The 15 week cdrom course ended up being four papers between 2000 and 4500 words. I really enjoyed the varying material, interaction and teaching but compared to testing out it could really drag!