I'm not good at taking classes that use a single pass/fail exam, but I am good at classes that use projects for credit. Is there a college that uses projects for credit?  Using several small exams would be okay, but projects would better. NAU-PL use to use essays for credit, but they are shut down now.  Ideally the school would be non-profit and regionally credited. I have a lot of gen-ed and IT credits that wouild transfer in, probably about 90 (usually the limit). I had been pursuing "competency based" schools, but for my last year of college, a "regular" school might be better. Maybe I need to go back and look at TESC and COC.

AI in Education course in Spanish by Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina). 

Fundamentos de IA en la educación

https://virtual.unne.edu.ar/SIED-UV/curs...educacion/

Like most of us on this forum I had an "unconventional" journey to getting a bachelor's degree! I went to community college 20+ years ago and racked up a few credits, but never graduated even with an Associates Degree. Higher Education, while not frowned upon was never really supported by my family. I never thought I would get a college degree.

Then early 2024 I stumbled upon a youtube channel discussing hacking college and then that started my search done the rabbit hole. I looked at WGU, UMPI, TESU, PUG, etc. I originally settled on WGU, then quickly transitioned to UMPI. I really wanted the BABA in PM/IS.  Once I knew where I wanted to go I began knocking out Sophia credits and Study credits. Then I applied for UMPI and started to get all my transcripts transferred. Only to learn they wanted a transcript from an old technical college from 12+ years ago and of course this school doesn't do anything electronically, so I had to request a paper copy and it took nearly two months, which delayed an already slow process with UMPI. It delayed me starting in the fall of 2024 and also the Spring 1 of 2025.

At this point I was ready to just have my degree already. I had remembered stumbling across a post on here about TAMUC at the time, now ETAMU and I had mentioned it to my wife as she was considering a degree in Healthcare. So I decided to take a look at it myself and the only degree that appealed to me was the Organizational Leadership. So I decided to apply since the Spring 1 term was approaching fast and I wanted to have a back up plan. Well my backup plan become option #1 and since I live in Texas it actually works out great. Makes it easier to get to graduation. 

The program and the professors were amazing and provided great feedback. The application process while a bit slow is not as slow as UMPI and the staff is great, at least for the Organizational Leadership program. The advisor's provide a quick response. While you can't have as many classes open at a time as UMPI and the terms are only for 7 weeks. At $1000 per term for Texas residents it is a great deal. 

I was able to transfer almost the max of credits in. I transferred in 87 credits towards the degree. Could have been 90, but I decided to go ahead and take Texas Government at ETAMU. While the class was a lot of work, it wasn't as hard as everyone makes it out to be. 

I took a total of 11 classes, 33 credits. All with A's, So not only did I go back to school, but I will be walking in a couple of weeks and graduation with distinction. 

Anyone still on the fence about hacking college. GO FOR IT!

Found this....

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https://skillsbuild.org/college-students...rtificates 

Stand out to employers and professional networks with the IBM SkillsBuild cybersecurity and data analytics certificates. Build required skills for in-demand jobs across multiple industries.
Beginning fall 2024, institutions and state systems are partnering with IBM SkillsBuild to offer two new in-demand certificates that include:

• IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity Certificate: Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Data Privacy; Vulnerability Management; System and Network Security; Cloud Security; Security Operations Management; and Incident Response and System Forensics.
  
• IBM SkillsBuild Data Analytics Certificate: Data Classification; Data Usability for Organizations; Inferential and Descriptive Statistics; Data Collection and Analysis; Data Preparation for Analysis; and Data Visualization and Presentation.
  
• A rigorous 3-hour asynchronous capstone.
  
• Up to 12 ACE (American Council on Education) recommended credits.
  
• Developed with faculty and industry experts.
  

No-cost introductory course offered spring 2025

The following four-credit course will be offered this spring at no cost to students, with tuition and fees funded by the Grow Your Own Teacher grant.
- ED-101 Intro to Education Practicum and Seminar (4)

This seminar presents critical topics associated with the Education profession.

For questions about the class or help finding a practicum site, contact mayla.morgan@clackamas.edu.
Spring term begins March 31, 2025
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on this page: https://www.clackamas.edu/academics/educ...and-spring

Thats 4 RA credits, but appears "in person" only

Hello all,

I think I have decided to do my MTS through Nations U. I was wondering if anyone had an idea on how their classes were structured? Are there papers? Exams? If there are papers what is the length or wordcount expectation? If there are exams are they proctored?

I would like to begin by thanking all contributors of the forum in advance.



I want to pursue a Business Degree or similar, however...

I am American, but studied abroad and completed a BBA, it was evaluated as three years undergraduate study by WES (refer to attachments).

Not sure whether to go with any of the Big 3, WGU, or UMPI since you can transfer more than 110 credits to any of the Big 3 respectively and only 90 to WGU and UMPI.

Any suggestions and insights are very much appreciated! Detailing expected time frames and associated costs. 

- I also think I will qualify for the Pell Grant.
 

It was evaluated as follows:

2015–2016 (Lower Level - L)

• (L) Functional English – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Office Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: B
  
• (L) Financial Accounting – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Principles and Practice of Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Business Economics – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Business Environment – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Computer Application in Business – 3.5 credits – Grade: B
  
• (L) Business Law – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Business Mathematics – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Entrepreneurial Development – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
  

• (L) Business Communication – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Human Resources Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Marketing Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Financial Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Operational Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Research Methodology – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Quantitative Analysis – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Organizational Behavior – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (L) Unspecified Course – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• Specialization Paper – No credits/grade listed
  
  

• (U) Accounting for Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (U) Company Organization – 3.5 credits – Grade: B
  
• (U) Project Presentation and Seminar – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (U) Unspecified Course – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• Specialization Paper – No credits/grade listed
  
• (U) Management Information System – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (U) Business Policy and Strategic Management – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (U) International Marketing – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• (U) Unspecified Course – 3.5 credits – Grade: A
  
• Specialization Paper – No credits/grade listed
  
  

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Hello everyone,

I have a question: is it relevant how long it takes to complete certain courses on Coursera? I noticed that the time is also recorded when you check the details of the certificate.

What I want to know is, how important is it whether I take 12 hours or 40 hours to complete a course? Specifically, if I have experience and skip through the videos, only doing the quizzes, will that be enough, or should I also watch the videos and do the exercises?
Would it be negative if I only took a few hours for certain courses?

BR

Ok. 

This could be redundant, bare with me.

If I was to note anything special:
- Never "sit on your hands"/procrastinate (dont miss opportunities, they might go away)
- Do not avoid GE credits, they will not go away, but they dont come back either (personal flaw of mine)

If you like tech, IT, Cyber type courses, or "Projects" in general, "LESS COMMON" area is a "super easy" boat load of credits (Google Certs are like 84 credits alone).
Most are electives or are part of concentrations/specializations,  

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In my collection of credits, I have found some odd ones (I'm the guy that found TEEX MGT343, user "aazard")

I had a list on a wiki discussion page, but it was messy. I'll try to keep this clean/simple:

LIST
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Common:

- TEEX: 
Mainly the Cybersecurity 101/201/301, etc. ... on wiki 
But they have "MGT343" about once per year online (more often in person), good grab
TEXX offers physical/digital "Professional Certificates" also, these will "double up" more in a PLA, dont miss these:
Cybersecurity Awareness (match to CYB101) + Cybersecurity Risk Management (match to CYB201) + Technical Cybersecurity (match to CYB301)

- Modern States CLEP Prep/Voucher:
I wont say more, on wiki

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Less Common

- AWIT (Advancing Women in Tech)
Offers 2 courses, 6 credits each, one course is UL
It was basically a dupe of Google PM and AWS Cloud Practitioner (respectfully)

- Coursea (ACE):
"Plus Hacking" ... ALL IBM/Google/Meta/Microsoft/Salesforce certs "can" be done free via "various avenues" (I used American Dream Academy, and the Alumni program) 
My personal fav platform!
DO NOT miss https://www.coursera.support/s/article/l...uage=en_US (gotta catch em all!)
Beware Advanced SAS and Deepseek AI... these are "not simple"

- Harvard/Harvard Online (& HBS Online/edX/GetSmarter), I did get a free verifiable certificate personally
Unless its direct edX, your mileage will very ... you 100% need a verifiable certificate for it to be possible at all
CS50x, CS50W, CS50P & CS50AI stand out (credits = 4, 3, 3 & 3 respectfully) as a great, if specialized set

- FEMA IS:
I like it ... no cost, BUT it seems to cost alot ($90?) per course, to get FCC to transcribe them. But these "are not difficult" IMHO
The Emergency Management A.A.S. really looks like a charmer (too me)


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Non-credit PLA Stuff (it doesnt hurt, but DO NOT focus on this, except maybe First Aid)

- "Savealife"
First-Aid CPR/AED NHCPS (ILCOR Standards and Guidelines and are Joint Commission/JCAHO compliant) free and accredited

- Certiprof:
Offers 10 free certs (Six Sigma White Belt and SCRUM Foundations stand out, others are less known) 

- 6 Sigma Study:
Offers a free Scrum SFC, plus Six Sigma White & sometimes Yellow, Belt

- MSI:
Wildly offers a Six Sigma Green Belt, FREE

- Cisco Network Academy:
Is so good it is criminal, that its free. heavy network/cyber focus

- Oracle University:
Not as good as above, but these are "cloud" certs.
Its not AWS, its very "free"

Your Location: South Africa

Your Age: 29
What kind of degree do you want?: Business Degree or business Administration or any fast degree 
Current Regional Accredited Credits:
Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: Sophia Learning, 72 credits
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT 3.00 
PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS 3,00

MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 3.00

PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS 3.00

PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS FINANCE 3,00

PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT 3,00

PROJECT MANAGEMENT 3,00
GLOBAL ART HISTORY I 3,00
HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II 3,00
BUSINESS ETHICS 3,00
BUSINESS LAW 3,00
COLLEGE ALGEBRA 3,00
ENGLISH COMPOSITION I 3,00
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 3,00
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO NUTRITION 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 3,00
ELEMENTARY STATISTICS 3,00
PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING 3,00
HUMAN BIOLOGY 3,00
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 3.00
CURRENTLY DOING: ENGLISH COMPOSITION 11
ORGANIZATIONAL BAHAVIOUR 

Budget: 3,5-4K
Commitments: I am working full time
Dedicated time to study: Can commit about 5-6 hours a day
Timeline: Complete by November 2025
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: No

I was looking at Excelsior’s Bsc in General Business. However I am unable to determine which courses are UL courses and their advisors are unwilling to assist until a month after I am officially enrolled. I am not enrolled as yet as I only want to enroll once I have done all my credits, transfer 113 and then only take the capstone,conerstone and info literacy.

Budget: I have a max of 3500K  I'd like to go the cheapest route possible, but will consider spending more for easy and fast.  
Commitments:  I currently work full time and can work on my studies in the evenings and on weekends.
Dedicated time to study: I can study as much as is needed during the night or weekends as long as my schedule is free. I estimate at least 5-6 hours every week night and on the weekends. 
Timeline: Finishing the courses required for the degree as fast as possible would be ideal.  I would like to finish within 6 months as I am hoping to apply for an MBA or Masters in Public Administration immediately after.
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: I will be paying out of pocket so any money saving tips will help as the bank declined me for a student loan.

I don’t mind taking tests but prefer competency based. My goal here more than anything is speed. I need to keep my job and I need a degree, and then I want to apply for a better job later in the year for another position.