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Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - MJREM - 08-16-2023
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for an online degree that will accept my Associate degree credits to e transfer to complete the bachelor's degree,
I have an associate degree in Computer Science from the University of the People
looking for a regional accredited online university and affordable (less than 4k)
I know I'm asking for something that may be impossible, but what do you know I might find the impossible here
I'm targeting Georgia Tec OMSCS this is why I need a regionally accredited program.
RE: Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - rachel83az - 08-16-2023
For under $4k, I don't think you're going to make it for a full transfer. You can do UMPI and they should accept most of your credits (all?) on a case-by-case basis. Even starting from scratch, with no credits at all, a UMPI degree will cost less than $4k.
If you want a Comp Sci degree for under $4k, that's not happening at all. The closest would be TESU at about double that and they wouldn't accept any UoPeople credits. So you'd have to start from scratch.
RE: Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - dfrecore - 08-16-2023
You need a school that will accept NA credit - so that leaves you with WGU and Excelsior. Since Excelsior doesn't have an alt-credit friendly technical degree, WGU will be your best bet. They should take your AA for Gen Ed, as well as do a 1-to-1 transfer for all courses, leaving you with a list of courses/certs to take to get to the max 90cr if possible.
UMPI will also specifically take those credits, but not because they take NA credit - just for whatever reason, U of the People is one of the NA schools they will accept transfer credit from. They also don't have a technical degree, so the best you could do there would be a BLS with PM or MIS as the minor/concentration. You'll also end up with more graded credit that way, which would probably help your application.
All 3 schools should get you out with about $4k or less in costs.
RE: Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - bjcheung77 - 08-16-2023
@MJREM, Welcome to the board... You really need to provide more details, as WGU would not work for you if you're not in the US. You've got your request above but not providing enough info, it's like asking for a coffee but not telling us what you need/want in the coffee. Basically, provide all the info asked for in the addendum and template located here: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-New-to-DegreeForum-How-this-Area-works
RE: Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - rachel83az - 08-16-2023
(08-16-2023, 07:39 AM)dfrecore Wrote: You need a school that will accept NA credit - so that leaves you with WGU and Excelsior.
For whatever reason, UMPI does accept at least some UoPeople credit - in spite of them generally not accepting NA credit. There is a substantial list of transferred credits (more than just one or two classes) in the UMPI transfer database. But I don't know if they'll accept all of an Associate from UoPeople, most of it, or just half of it. MJREM would have to match up classes taken with the transfer database to see where they should stand with UMPI.
Perhaps UMPI accepts UoPeople because UoPeople has RA candidacy? I don't know. They do tend to have some odd exceptions for their YourPace program.
RE: Help me to find Affordable Bsc after Associate - dfrecore - 08-16-2023
(08-16-2023, 01:59 PM)rachel83az Wrote:(08-16-2023, 07:39 AM)dfrecore Wrote: You need a school that will accept NA credit - so that leaves you with WGU and Excelsior.
For whatever reason, UMPI does accept at least some UoPeople credit - in spite of them generally not accepting NA credit. There is a substantial list of transferred credits (more than just one or two classes) in the UMPI transfer database. But I don't know if they'll accept all of an Associate from UoPeople, most of it, or just half of it. MJREM would have to match up classes taken with the transfer database to see where they should stand with UMPI.
Perhaps UMPI accepts UoPeople because UoPeople has RA candidacy? I don't know. They do tend to have some odd exceptions for their YourPace program.
Yes, I actually said that in the next paragraph - they do take UofPeople credits. Not sure why you quoted part of my post and not all. But please don't misrepresent what I said.