Can you please help out a beginner. Any advice appreciated!

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First of all, even the BSBA requires 2 semesters of English, so it's not as if you're not taking some of the core General Education courses that you need at every school to get any degree. Whether you get a degree in English or Math or Science or Business, they all require the same basic courses in the General Ed area.

I can't help you with COSC, but I think the BALS at TESU is still cheaper than COSC because you only have to take 1 course at TESU, and you have to take 2 at COSC. But I could be wrong on the price, I'm not sure how much the COSC courses cost.

I've also heard that the BALS at EC is going to start letting you test out of the capstone, so that could make EC cheaper than both.

So, in my opinion, you need to start taking courses that will count towards all 3 schools, and wait a little while to see which one has the best plan when you're ready to enroll. There are a lot of courses that will work for this, but I don't know COSC and EC well enough to help plan those out.

I could give you a spreadsheet for the BALS at TESU, with the cheapest routes to get your courses (through free courses, ALEKS math at $20/mo, Saylor courses which are $25 each, then using CLEP/DSST exams or SL to take courses). Then you could get some help from people more familiar with COSC and EC, and take all of the courses which will fit into all 3 schools.