03-03-2013, 08:14 PM
First of all, you cannot get both a BA w/major (including general majors like Social Sciences or Humanities) and a Liberal Studies degree. The point of a Liberal Studies degree is just to get you a degree in the "easiest" way possible with transfer credit, not something to paper your walls with.
My suggestion? Unless the extra degree will help you (and a BALS won't help you at all if you already have a BA in anything), go out and get a Masters degree from a well-regarded distance programme or your local B&M and then use that to stroke your ego. I'd be much more impressed with someone with a part-time MBA from Northwestern or online MBA from Indiana or UNC than someone with 10 redundant degrees. (especially because those 10 include AA/AS degrees) TESC and EC (and even ESC) are a means to an end; if the end is the most flexible route to a degree from a legitimate institution, they fit the bill, but if the end is papering your wall with redundant degrees, they were not founded for that reason and I don't think they will take kindly to such a farcical suggestion. TESC and EC do not exist to give you "free" degrees.
AFAIK, TESC does not grant third undergraduate degrees in any case.
My suggestion? Unless the extra degree will help you (and a BALS won't help you at all if you already have a BA in anything), go out and get a Masters degree from a well-regarded distance programme or your local B&M and then use that to stroke your ego. I'd be much more impressed with someone with a part-time MBA from Northwestern or online MBA from Indiana or UNC than someone with 10 redundant degrees. (especially because those 10 include AA/AS degrees) TESC and EC (and even ESC) are a means to an end; if the end is the most flexible route to a degree from a legitimate institution, they fit the bill, but if the end is papering your wall with redundant degrees, they were not founded for that reason and I don't think they will take kindly to such a farcical suggestion. TESC and EC do not exist to give you "free" degrees.
AFAIK, TESC does not grant third undergraduate degrees in any case.
CPA (WA), CFA Level III Candidate
Currently pursuing: ALM, Data Science - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (12/48, on hold for CFA/life commitments)
MBA, Finance/Accounting - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015
BSBA, General Management - Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, 2012
Currently pursuing: ALM, Data Science - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (12/48, on hold for CFA/life commitments)
MBA, Finance/Accounting - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015
BSBA, General Management - Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, 2012