advice please to avoid the quarter life crisis!

[AngelaP]

I never realized you wrote a guide Sanantone! Kudos to you!! I just read it and it contains a lot of valuable information that can be useful to many.

I did write a dummies' guide.
http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...grams.html

Most of the people on this forum are attending what we call the Big 3: Thomas Edison State College, Excelsior College, and Charter Oak State College. These are unranked, non-profit colleges. I don't know if that's good enough for you. People here choose these schools because they don't have a 25% or higher residency requirement like every other school in the U.S. When I say residency requirement in this instance, I mean having to take a certain percentage of your credits at the institution online, on ground, correspondence, satellite, t.v., etc. We test out of many of our credits through CLEP, DSST, Uexcel, and other tests. We also utilized self-paced courses that either aren't at colleges or aren't at regionally accredited colleges, but are ACE or NCCRS-approved for college credit: ALEKS, Saylor, Straighterline, Sophia Learning, Propero, Penn Foster, etc. COSC students can use free FEMA credits for free electives. One can complete a bachelor's degree at COSC or EC for well under $10k. One can complete a bachelor's degree at TESC for under $5k depending on the program.

Then, there are competency-based programs that are self-paced. Many people are able to speed up the process of earning their degrees by attending these programs. Some of them even accept CLEP, DSST, and Straighterline courses. The programs at Western Governors University, Patten University (for-profit college, but generally unknown), and Northern Arizona University are cheap. Capella (a for-profit university that I would stay away from) and Brandman University are more expensive. I can't remember the price at Hodges and one other school. The competency-based programs at the University of Wisconsin system are expensive.

You can see all of the links to all of my TESC "test out" plans in the thread linked below.
http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...-tesc.html

I'll also throw in this link.
Free Sources of Credit - Degree Forum Wiki