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List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - azmusic - 07-19-2024
Hello all, thanks for all the information here!
I'm looking for a list of transfer-friendly schools that will waive general education for students with a previous Bachelor's degree.
My background and why I'm looking for this:
In my particular case, I got a regionally accredited degree in Music Performance at the Manhattan School of Music straight out of high school. This degree did *not* require traditional gen eds like English, STEM, psychology, or anything like that. All my general education were in humanities and some history classes but even those were more culturally/arts focused so were arguably still just humanities courses. The rest were major classes in music performance, composition, ensemble, etc.
I've since dropped ambitions of being a full time performing musician. I've done well for myself in the audio visual industry. Started recording engineering for my alma mater and work in live event production. I'm now a full time A1 live audio engineer and general AV technician and these days that entails junior network engineering responsibilities as audio is traveling over networks via Dante protocol. Video over NDI/ST2110 or similar. Programming is also useful for creating AV control systems.
Anyway, long story short my work is getting more and more technical and I feel limited in my career by my lack of a true STEM/technical undergrad degree.
When I've gotten evaluations from schools that don't have this policy and evaluate on a course-by-course basis, I'm always told I have to take more English, Communication, Psych/sociology, Physics and other general ed requirements that I'd prefer not to have to do if possible.
Other schools have stated that because I have a previous RA bachelor's, all gen ed requirements are automatically considered "met" and I get a bunch of credits off the bat. All of these have the same caveat that certain gen eds like Calculus for CS or Physics for Engineering if they are a major requirement, will still need to be taken of course.
Through my own research I've found the following schools with such policies:
WGU
UMPI
SNHU - waived all gen eds except their Diversity/Sustainability requirement (1 class)
TESU - I never got an eval nor is it stated on their website but members here state that this is their policy
ODU - Old Dominion University - waives all "lower division" gen eds but still requires more "upper division" gen eds
I'm sure there are more schools like this, and I know I can't be the only one with this question. Please let me know what other schools have this policy. Bonus points if the school has a good selection of STEM BS degrees available with reasonable tuition.
Personally I'm currently leaning towards the TESU BACS degree but still exploring options.
Thanks in advance
RE: List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - allvia - 07-20-2024
TESU does waive them, but you will still need to complete any degree program requirements (AOS) - https://www.tesu.edu/heavin/ba/computer-science
The good news is we have an excellent Wiki to guide through obtaining them for the TESU BACS - https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sample_TESU_BA_Computer_Science_Plan
RE: List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - kiaolsl - 09-30-2024
I'd rather not have to take extra English, Communication, Physics, and other general education courses, but I've obtained assessments from institutions without this approach and that evaluate courses individually.
RE: List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - ReyMysterioso - 10-06-2024
I mean pretty all of them for the most part. Most aren't going to try and make you do English I and II and oral communication again Usually you only have to do any lower level prerequisites. I.e. all Texas schools require Texas Government. Or if you have say an English degree and want a business bachelor's, you'll have to do intro to Accounting, micro and macroeconomics etc.
RE: List of schools that will waive Gen Ed for second bachelor's degree seekers - azmusic - 10-07-2024
(10-06-2024, 11:01 AM)ReyMysterioso Wrote: I mean pretty all of them for the most part. Most aren't going to try and make you do English I and II and oral communication again Usually you only have to do any lower level prerequisites. I.e. all Texas schools require Texas Government. Or if you have say an English degree and want a business bachelor's, you'll have to do intro to Accounting, micro and macroeconomics etc.
In my case my first degree was a Music performance degree that never required any math, english, or science. Just a few general "humanities" classes, rest were music. It was an RA bachelor's still around 120 credits in total.
All the schools that evaluate course by course and don't have a blanket gen ed waiver policy were indeed asking me to do English, Oral Comm, Math, etc.
I ended going into TESU. 45 credits for gen ed and 30 credits of free electives waived off the bat for having a previous degree. Get to focus on my major