Excelsior liberal arts and Tesu Business admin !

[jakill2]

Hello everyone! Is it possible to get a liberal arts degree from excelsior and a business admin management degree from TESU(bachelors for both) . Are these degrees to similar that it would cause a problem ?

[jsd]

Why?

Just get the BSBA. Don't get an unnecessary generic degree on top of a specific major, there's zero added value.

Save your money and effort for the Masters after your BSBA

[davewill]

You actually would have the opposite problem, the two degrees don't have much in common at all since business courses are not liberal arts. You'd end up doing a lot of extra credits for the second degree.

[ss20ts]

Why? Why would you want to pay that much for 2 bachelor's degrees? Multiple capstones at different schools too. There's not much overlap between business and lib arts either so that would be a lot of extra courses. If you already have a ton of lib arts credits, that's one thing. If you really want both, then do both at the same school to help reduce your costs.

[rachel83az]

If you really want both for whatever reason, I'd suggest going to UMPI and doing them there. Doing a BLS and a BABA at UMPI would be cheaper, and quite possibly faster, than doing a BALS and a BSBA at two different universities. But if you're sure you want a Business degree, skip the Liberal Studies degree. The Liberal Studies degree won't have as much value/worth once you've gotten a Business degree.

[bjcheung77]

@jakill2, I think you should hold your thoughts for a moment and explain what you're trying to do and what you have done already... If my guess is correct, you're complete with the Associates at Excelsior and want to ladder that up to the Bachelors, then get a Business degree. You can go for the MBA at HAU instead of completing the BSBA, they just require you to complete pre-requisites and you can do that using alternative education courses for transfer into Excelsior. It would look like this, Excelsior for undergrad and HAU/WGU for MBA or whichever provider you want to go with, maybe even an UMPI MAOL or WGU MSML as that's another inexpensive alternative to the MBA.

[jakill2]

Hmmm. Thank you for the reply everyone. I really don’t have a true reason for wanting a business degree other than it complimenting the liberal arts degree on paper. I guess I do want a second degree and I figured business would just be an easy degree to finish up. I can probably look into cyber security at Excelsior. The reason for another school is that I’ve heard it’s a bit odd to get two bachelors from the same school but honestly don’t know how true that is

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Also I’d like to add that I am about to finish my liberal arts degree at Excelsior. I only have three courses left and will graduate by august this year. So it may be too late to change to a business degree. Having said that, my work pays for my degree at Excelsior and liberal arts was the closest they had to what I enjoy (history, political science). I originally wanted a degree just bc I enjoyed it but I don’t know if a Liberal Arts degree is enough to do something in management . I may take a step back and rethink my plans , a business degree would be nice but maybe cyber security would be a better move

[dfrecore]

Hmmm. Thank you for the reply everyone. I really don’t have a true reason for wanting a business degree other than it complimenting the liberal arts degree on paper. I guess I do want a second degree and I figured business would just be an easy degree to finish up. I can probably look into cyber security at Excelsior. The reason for another school is that I’ve heard it’s a bit odd to get two bachelors from the same school but honestly don’t know how true that is

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Also I’d like to add that I am about to finish my liberal arts degree at Excelsior. I only have three courses left and will graduate by august this year. So it may be too late to change to a business degree. Having said that, my work pays for my degree at Excelsior and liberal arts was the closest they had to what I enjoy (history, political science). I originally wanted a degree just bc I enjoyed it but I don’t know if a Liberal Arts degree is enough to do something in management . I may take a step back and rethink my plans , a business degree would be nice but maybe cyber security would be a better move

I would not get a Cybersec degree from Excelsior, just because it's pricy and will take too long.  So, if you're thinking about getting a Business degree, get it at UMPI; if you're thinking Cybersec, get it at WGU.  Or better yet, get a Business/IT degree from WGU (a BSBA in IT Management) - it's the best of both worlds.