Quick Associates Degree

[All-American]

I have 62 or 59 credits depending on how Humanities is counted-- all below. Is there a way to turn them into a quick Associates Degree?

English:
ENC-101/102 College Composition (CLEP, 6 credits)

Math:
Intro Statistics (Sophia Learning, transferred to ACE) 3 credits

Humanities:
HUM-101/102 Humanities (General) (CLEP, 3 credits)
LIT-292/293 Analyzing and Interpreting Literature (CLEP, 6 credits)

Science:
Human Biology (Sophia Learning, transferred to ACE for credit)


Social Studies:
Social Sciences and History (CLEP, 6 credits)
U.S. History I & II (CLEP*6 credits)
CLEP American Government
CLEP Sociology
CLEP Psychology

Business
CLEP*Marketing
CLEP*Management
Sophia Project Management UL
CLEP Business Law

Odds and Ends:
Insurance Agents Exam Ethics (2 credits)
Documenting College Experience, 3 credits

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[videogamesrock]

The BOG AAS is your best option - zero residency.

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...s-bog.html

[videogamesrock]

Your math should sub for computer literacy.

[dfrecore]

I'm pretty good with TESU, not quite as familiar with COSC, so take this info with a grain of salt.

If you go to TESU, there are 2 options:

1) an AA in General Studies, you need
- Public Speaking (DSST, SL, TECEP)
- Any science lab or another course

2) an ASBA, you need
- Public Speaking
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Computers

You will not need a capstone, but you will probably need the cornerstone, so that would be an additional $300 course (although it's quick, you can finish in a couple of days as I've heard).

Between the application fee ($75), the Residency Waiver fee ($2000) and the Graduation fee ($323), the cornerstone, and assuming that each course will cost on average $100, the AA will cost $2900 and the ASBA would be $2800.

Best case scenario: you could apply now, apply for graduation before Jan 1 (if possible, not sure on that), send in all of your transcripts, finalize the courses you need to take before Feb 1, take the cornerstone on Jan 30 (1st day of the Feb term), and have your degree in March. Worst case, you can't apply for the March graduation, in which case you would do the June date instead.

I personally think that $2000 residency fee is too high for an AA unless for some reason you desperately need it now. Or if you know with 100% certainty that you will continue on with the BA/BSBA and get it within a year, in which case you would not need to pay for it again (or so we think, with the conflicting info that TESU gives out on a continual basis, there's no guarantee at this point).

If you go to COCS, you need
- Speech
- the Cornerstone (has to be taken at COSC)
- a Non-US History or Culture course
- a Global Understanding course (Intro to Religion will work for both requirements)
- a natural science with a lab

With the course costs of approx $100 each, the cornerstone ($1131), the app fee, the student services fee, the technology fee, and the graduation fee, you're at $2138. I'm not familiar with the timeframe component there, so I'm not sure how quickly you could graduate. But the cornerstone would take a couple of months to complete (looks like there's an open class 1/17-3/12), and then you could apply for graduation when that's done. Looks like they have graduation conferral in May.

[videogamesrock]

The BOG AAS with residency waiver form would be less than $100. It looks like you've completed every requirement there.

[ndelco]

You will not need a capstone, but you will probably need the cornerstone, so that would be an additional $300 course (although it's quick, you can finish in a couple of days as I've heard).

The TESU Cornerstone can be finished in a couple of hours. I think the process of cooking and then eating dinner takes longer.

[All-American]

BOG? Is this another school? Is it cheap?

[All-American]

What options do I have for Natural Science with lab? Does this need to go through a school? How many credits does it need to be?

My business credits won't cause any conflicts with the generic AA, will they?

[Synicaal]

General Consensus here is to just skip the Associate's degree unless you are going to take much longer to achieve the bachelors degree and you need a degree quick. I questioned this several times before deciding against the Associates all together. I only need an Associates degree for the first level of the job I want but I will finish my bachelors requirements a month or two after my Associates requirements so I can bump it a couple months. This was due to the order I'm doing credits in, not the most efficient but its getting the job done.

[rebel100]

I like the BOG idea.

At COSC you need the following:
Speech...DSST has this, you can also request a waiver of this requirement and provide supporting documentation that you haev spoken to a crowd...good success with folks getting this.

Natural Science with a lab. Straighterline General Bio with lab is the easy choice, but any science with a lab will work $200 ish and can be completed in a few weeks by most people. You must check that this doesn't duplicate the Biology you already took....if it does just take the SL General Biology Lab and any other three credit natural science. You need 7 total natural science with 1 credit from a lab.

I'm pretty sure your ethics is covered (if not the DSST Business Ethics is a great choice and is Upper level as well...nice for later) $100

DSST Religions of the world satisfies BOTH non us history and global understanding $100

Finally you would need the COSC Cornerstone plus fees to graduate and such $1500 or so

Total around $1800. The cornerstone is offered in an 8 week format at the beginning and middle of each semester, the others are rolling or as you test. You could be done with an AA by mid March if you hurry and get signed up.