Which school/program is best for me

[jakesix19]

I need to figure out how to best get a bachelors degree asap for my job. It is a recent requirement. I'm currently looking at the BSBA in CIS at TESC, because of the testing out options it has, but I don't know if that degree will take advantage of my current AAS degree and credits. What is going to be the fastest bachelors I can get with transferring my current credits and test taking? Thanks

Incoming Course Description Units Taken Grade Input Transfer Term Incoming Course School
Basic Communications 2 B 2002-2003 COMM 1510 Southeast Technical College
Workplace Communications 2 B 2002-2003 COMM 1518 Southeast Technical College
General Psychology 3 B 2002-2003 PSYC 2510 Southeast Technical College
Intro To the Arts 3 A 2002-2003 HUMA 2501 Southeast Technical College
Society & Law 2 B 2002-2003 HUMA 1510 Southeast Technical College
Intermediate Algebra 3 A 2002-2003 MATH 2515 Southeast Technical College
College English 3 B 2002-2003 COMM 2515 Southeast Technical College
Economics 3 B 2002-2003 809 195 Western Technical College
Intro To Sociology 3 B 2002-2003 809 196 Western Technical College
Intro to Information Communication Technology 1 A 2011-2012 ICT 100 UW Stout
Intro to Financial Accounting 3 A 2011-2012 BUACT 206 UW Stout
Intro to College Math 4 A 2011-2012 MATH 120 UW Stout

Intro To Computers 3 B 2002-2003 COMP 2510 Southeast Technical College
Network Infrastructure 2 B 2002-2003 NWAT 1640 Southeast Technical College
PC Hardware Overview 3 B 2002-2003 NWAT 1600 Southeast Technical College
TCP/IP 3 B 2002-2003 NWAT 1660 Southeast Technical College
WAN Technologies 3 D 2002-2003 NWAT 1670 Southeast Technical College
Software Application Supp 3 B 2002-2003 ELEC 1314 Southeast Technical College
Microcomputer Support 2 B 2002-2003 ELEC 1312 Southeast Technical College
Microsoft Server/Enterprise 4 C 2002-2003 NWAT 1650 Southeast Technical College
PC Operating Systems 3 B 2002-2003 NWAT 1610 Southeast Technical College
Novell Netware 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2600 Southeast Technical College
Web Page Develop/HTML 2 A 2002-2003 COMC 1736 Southeast Technical College
Cisco LAN Connectivity 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2610 Southeast Technical College
MS Exchange/Internet Serv 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2660 Southeast Technical College
Cisco WAN Connectivity 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2620 Southeast Technical College
Microsoft Workstation 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2630 Southeast Technical College
MS Advanced Server 4 B 2002-2003 NWAT 2670 Southeast Technical College
System Analysis & Design 2 B 2002-2003 COMC 2732 Southeast Technical College

[dfrecore]

The BSBA at TESC will not take great advantage of your courses, simply because you don't have a lot from the Business area, and none of these courses will count as UL since they were taken at a CC. Only 6cr of LL will count towards your CIS Area of Study, leaving you 4 UL courses to take. The rest will count towards Free Electives, and there are only 6 allowed in that area. The other option is a BSAST in IT, but that's not as easy to test out of.

Other people will know more about COSC and EC.

I think your best bet is to apply at all 3 schools and then see where you stand with each. I know it's not cheap, but I think it's the best way to know what they're going to count your courses as, and what you'll need to do at each school to meet your requirements.

Once you get all your evals back, you can then compare to see where your best option is going to be. I'm not sure how it works at EC and COSC, but at TESC, you can see what happens when you change your degree (from a BSBA CIS to BSBA Gen Mgmt to BSAST IT).

[jakesix19]

Thanks, that's not a bad idea. I'm trying to read through all the information on the forum, but its a lot. I wish one of the big 3 would be able to use my Associates as %50 of a Bachelors somehow. I'm also looking at the COSC Bachelor of Science General Studies with a Information Systems Studies concentration, but I'm having a hard time putting together an outline of all the requirements and then trying to figure out what my credits might count for.

[dfrecore]

I think the TESC BSAST in Technical Studies will utilize the most credits!! This is like the generic version of the BSAST-IT, where there are fewer specific requirements - Project Management and the Capstone (Current Trends & Applications) are it, then the remaining 39 units can be in anything. Yes, there are some UL courses you'll need (the easiest to get seem to be MIS & Cybersecurity DSST's, Network Tech TECEP, and Cloud Computing CSU-Global).

PM me and I will send you a spreadsheet of what I figured out.

BTW - my husband is debating between this and the BSBA CIS degree, so I've been looking at both of those for a while. The BSAST is more expensive because of the capstone, but far fewer courses needed. You can also see what is needed for both degrees, and work on getting those 11 courses done first, and then see how you feel at that point.

[Life Long Learning]

I agree that you should apply to all three. $275 to do so, but talk is cheap and the three are different. I am doing that right now and in the long-run will save money. So far TESC is not going well. Time will tell.

I think your best bet is to apply at all 3 schools and then see where you stand with each. I know it's not cheap, but I think it's the best way to know what they're going to count your courses as, and what you'll need to do at each school to meet your requirements..

[soliloquy]

Do you happen to have any certifications?

[jakesix19]

The only certifications have is a Citrix Certified administrator and Epic client systems manager... Nothing from microsoft or Cisco. Thank you for all your suggestions. TESC BSAST in Technical Studies looks very promising for transferring my credits.

[sanantone]

TESC's BSAST degrees only require 12 UL credits. Six of those credits are already covered by two required courses: current trends and applications and project management. All of your community college credits will be lower level at all of the Big 3. TESC's BSAST degrees probably require the least amount of upper level credits out of all of the Big 3 programs.