Most efficient Associate degree I can get?

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West Virginia Northern Community College
Board of Governors AAS
Area of Concentration in Business

1. COM 1: SL/ CLEP English Composition I 3
2. COM 2: SL/ CLEP English Composition II 3
3. SCI: Saylor Intro to Biology or SL Nutrition 3
4. MATH: Shmoop Algebra I and II (or ALEKS College Algebra) 3
5. SOC 1: Shmoop US History I 3
6: SOC 2: Shmoop US History II 3
7. COMP: TEEX Cybersecurity 6
8: ELEC 1: Shmoop Modern European History 3
9. ELEC 2: Shmoop (or ALEKS) Precalculus 3
10. ELEC 3: Saylor BUS 101 Intro to Business 3
11. ELEC 4: Saylor BUS 103 Intro to Financial Accounting 3
12. ELEC 5: Saylor BUS 203 Principles of Marketing 3
13. ELEC 6: Saylor BUS 205 Business Law and Ethics 3
14. ELEC 7: Saylor BUS 208 Corporate Communication 3
15. ELEC 8: Shmoop Finite Math 3
16. ELEC 9: Shmoop Lit or Math (or ALEKS Business Statistics) 3
17. ELEC 10: Shmoop Lit or Math 3
18. ELEC 11: Shmoop Lit or Math 3
19. ELEC 12: Shmoop Lit or Math 3

If you decide not to take the CLEP College Composition, you could just take SL English Composition I and use the Saylor Corporate Communication in place of English Comp II. Replace those 3 hours with another Saylor or Shmoop course.

Also, they are very flexible about what they will accept as long as it comes from an ACE transcript, so you could replace a course you don’t want to take with another one very easily. Just make sure you have the first 21 credits above completed.

You would need to apply for a waiver for the residency credits, but WVNCC seems very amenable to approving those waivers.

Shmoop is ~$90/ month for as many credits as you can take (no proctoring fees). Saylor is $25 per class for proctoring the final exam through ProctorU. You could replace those Saylor business courses with more from Shmoop, but then you wouldn’t have a concentration in business; rather you would just have an AAS in General Studies.

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West Virginia Northern Community College
Board of Governors AAS

1. COM 1: CLEP English Composition I 3
2. COM 2: CLEP English Composition II 3
3. SCI: Sophia: Human Biology 3
4. MATH: Introduction to Statistics 3
5. SOC 1: CLEP Social Science and History I 3
6: SOC 2: CLEP Social Science and History II 3
7. COMP: TEEX Cybersecurity 6
8: ELEC 1: American Government 3
9. ELEC 2: Intro. Psychology 3
10. ELEC 3: CLEP Humanities 3
11. ELEC 4: Sophia Intro to Management 3
12. ELEC 5: Sophia Project Management 3
13. ELEC 6: CLEP Business Law 3
14. ELEC 7: CLEP Principles of Management 3
15. ELEC 8: CLEP US History I 3
16. ELEC 9: CLEP US History II 3
17. ELEC 10: Intro to Sociology 3
18. ELEC 11: Analyzing and Interpreting Lit. I 3
19. ELEC 12: Analyzing and Interpreting Lit. II 3