Charter Oak State College - New Degree in B.S. Business Administration

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Yes, you don’t need to take the Business Ethics UExcel exam. I forgot about the UExcel Business Ethics exam (and I didn’t include it because it wasn’t counted as a liberal arts elective whereas DSST Business ethics was plus it was pass/fail).

If you wanted another upper level exam, you could take the regular UExcel Ethics exam (separate from the DSST Business Ethics or UExcel Business ethics one). They let me take both DSST Business Ethics and UExcel Ethics - Theory & Practice for the additional UL credit (though this exam costs way more keep that in mind).

COSC’s MIS course would probably cost you out of state like $360 * 3 = $1,080 or so (plus the associated fees). If it were me, I'd save the money and finish a 2nd UL business course through COSC (are you doing part-time financial aid for 6 credits???), worry about one less business elective, and spend $100 to get an easy pass for DSST MIS. If you did it the other way, you'd spend like $1,100 for each course (an upper level business course and one MIS course) for an extra grand. I know you exclude Penn Foster's, but realize they are extremely easy, cheap ($237), and can be finished in a few hours/days tops. Some of them have no proctor requirements, and if they do can be generally anyone including a friend as long as they have a college degree.


I imagine you’re thinking of getting partial financial aid with MGT 499: Capstone course by having 6 credits, right? Keep in mind that before then you need/should have satisfied the MIS course, as well as Organizational Behavior. This is MGT 499’s pre-reqs:
“Prerequisites:
• ACC 101: Financial Accounting
• ACC 102: Managerial Accounting
• FIN 210: Financial Management
• ITE 101: Management Information Systems
• MGT 101: Principles of Management
• MGT 315: Organizational Behavior
• MKT 220: Principles of Marketing
• ENG 101: English Composition 1
• ENG 102: English Composition 2”

You may be able to get a waiver if you don’t have some of these fulfilled, but that’s between you and the college and what they feel like doing. So you may have to do the MIS course or exam before then as well.

edit: There is a Finance requirement, and most people tend to choose between doing the DSST in Finance (which is known for being hard) or Penn Foster's Financial Management course which is a joke (no proctored final, 5 easy multiple choice quizzes and final with each being bale to retake twice). You can finish that within 10 hours or so with minimal reading.

I'm going to reply to this, and then I'll start my own thread on my degree plan so that I don't hijack this thread any more than I already have.

I was planning to use MGMT 499 as one of my two classes for partial financial aid. The way they explained my current Capstone to me is that I could only take it once I had 6 credits left to take in my concentration. Since I can't start really hardcore testing out until I graduate with my BA, that leaves me a very small, but I think doable window in which to test out of all the pre-reqs for the BSBA Capstone. If they are adding Bus. Stats. and Bus. Law to make the major, and taking nothing away, that leaves me quite a few options of things I can test out of now.

Adding those two classes gives us a major with 42 credits, and the 6 credits of Micro-Macroeconomics they have listed under the heading of "Pre-Requisites".
According to the Catalog:

"To earn a second baccalaureate degree in a major other than General Studies, a student must:

• obtain approval from the Director of Admissions;
  
• earn a minimum of 30 semester credits subsequent to the award of the initial degree; 15 of which must be upper level in the new major;
  
• meet all of the requirements of the major.
  

So I need 30 fresh credits, 15 of which are UL. That means if this major works the way I hope it does, I can test out of 18 credits before I even graduate with my BA. 42 major credits+6 pre-reqs-30 after degree= 18

So I could do this:

Prerequisites:
• ACC 101: Financial Accounting - CLEP
• ACC 102: Managerial Accounting [B]- UExcel
[/B] • FIN 210: Financial Management [B]- UExcel
[/B]• ITE 101: Management Information Systems [B]- CLEP
[/B] • MGT 101: Principles of Management [B]- CLEP
[/B]• MGT 315: Organizational Behavior
• MKT 220: Principles of Marketing [B]- CLEP
[/B]• ENG 101: English Composition 1 [B]- Transfer
[/B]• ENG 102: English Composition 2 [B]- Transfer

[/B]Or I could leave off Principles of Management and Principles of Marketing until I graduate Dec. 31, since those two exams are known to be easy, and CLEP out of Micro and Macroeconomics. Basically get as many LL requirements out of the way as possible.

I hear what you're saying about Penn Foster, I'm just not very okay having that on my transcript. Personal preference. If it comes down to it I can always take the Finance course at COSC, if they offer one. The way my advisor explained things to me, as long as they know when that credit will be completed, they can schedule you for the Capstone. It may be different for Business, but I kind of doubt it.

Alright, off to make my own thread before I wreck this one more!

ETA: I'm using the Term system at COSC strategically to get this done, just like I'm doing with my BA. I can take the one class I need one term and the Capstone the next. Still counts as half-time for the whole semester. Just wasn't sure if that was clear.