Thomas Edison State College associate degree or bachelors?

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I ve recently enrolled in TESC majoring in accounting. I m starting to think I shouldn t complete my BA at TESC, I don t want future employers to not value my degree. I m thinking I should get my associates at TESC then transfer to a school like Rutgers, Montclair State etc. to obtain my BA. The only issue is I work full time and really don t have time to attend a traditional brick and mortar school, so online classes is best for me. I don t know what to do. Did any graduates from TESC have trouble finding employment? Should I stay at TESC?

This questions gets asked a lot. TESU isn't a diploma mill school. It allows people to utilizes alternative credits unlike a lot of schools. This is a 100% legit degree that you have to WORK for. It seems easy to do but it's not. Don't bother getting an Associates degree from TESU its a waste of money imo if you just planning on trying to transfer it to another school. Most likely those schools wont take most of your ACE credits because they are greedy. I cannot speak for TESU directly but one of the big 3 is excelsior. A degree from Excelsior (in NYS) is looked at highly from employers. I was making a plan to go to SUNY Albany after my Associates from HVCC but found out about TESU did my research and said yeah I'm going this route. I too did a lot of digging contacting civil service and other agency's to validate TESU and Excelsior (were my top two choices). I also asked hiring managers at my job to look over two similar resumes and tell me who they would hire. They all said it was 50/50. I gave them a resume with a Bachelors Degree from Siena College(top rated school locally) and Bachelors degree from TESU. GPA at Siena was 3.4 and at TESU no existent. I then did comparable job history (I have job history so I wanted to add some) and they went back and forth between them all. For the ones who chose the Siena Person they said they liked there job experience better. For the ones who like TESU most said the same exact thing as the Siena ones. I then asked them did GPA matter, they said they didn't even look for the GPA. I asked them is they noticed the time to earn the degree, only had one person say they did and was impressed and confused at the same time that it took someone a year to get a bachelors. FYI that person said they would most definitely call that person for an interview to talk about how they accomplished that.

Either way TESU is just as good as any other school, Better then some, but of course there is schools that will always look better then TESU. Ivy League > TESU, everything else pretty much level playing field. As you can see Siena V TESU was a tie (like it should be, came down to experience)

https://www.siena.edu/
in case you all wanted to check out Siena

Disclaimer - I do know a lot of the hiring managers at my office which made this test easy to do. Also this was for tax and finance department at NYS and I obviously didn't test IT or HR or anything like that. But I think I might try it with HR and see what people say.