About to get my ccaf

[dcan]

HOWDY!

TESC also gives a lower cost to active military (NJ resident cost) But you must take a minimum number of courses from them for that.

Actually, TESC is FREE for us due to 100% Tuition Assistance. But AD TA users are required to take 18 credits from TESC (6 courses) in order to have the $2-3K annual enrollment fee waived. Essentially you enroll for free, and take the courses for free, as long as you take 6 courses. The rest can be transfer, CLEP, etc.

TESC lets you CLEP 120 credits, BTW. I think COSC and EC do as well.

I just applied to TESC ($75) with a self-built degree plan for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, CIS concentration. I have not yet however gone into the portal to apply for TA for my first class: English Composition 102. I may postpone it to August to make sure I have time to finish out my last CCAF CLEP.

My BSBA CIS plan lets me do the following:

• Transfer in 49 CCAF Computer Science credits + 15 gen ed CLEPs (for the 64 CCAF credits)
  
• Learn business by studying for and testing out of the business core
  
• Use ALEKS to get through trig, since trig is accepted for the TESC pre-cal BSBA math requirement
  
• Potentially study a couple of courses at UMUC to get a couple of high-value IT certifications (Network+ and CISSP)
  

All in 18-24 months tops.

TESC also has an "Active Duty Scholarship", and I have an open e-mail with them to find out what it is and how it works. I assume it helps cover books, etc.

FYI in my unofficial eval, my CCAF degree fills up all of the CIS concentration, all of the business electives, and all of the free electives! Maybe you will have the same luck!

I know some here will disagree, but just my 2c stay away from University of Phoenix. They are expensive and not highly rated by most employers

:iagree: Though in the gov't/military arena some of the nationally accredited colleges like UoP and AMU are less of an issue, in the private sector I know for a fact that UoP is almost universally laughed at. I've read more than one story where IT shops have been ordered to throw out any resume containing a UoP degree without consideration at all.

99% of the time you will want to use only regionally-accredited schools. This is especially important for later education.