TESU, when should I enroll?

[will1975]

Ok--new to this forum!  I have a few questions--I am looking to start BSBA possibly through TESU.  I have just 18 hours of undergraduate classes at a local community college.  There is so much info on this forum that I am struggling to understand it all.  We had a telephone conference with Lumerit (previously College plus) today.  But my gut feeling is that I can do this much cheaper on my own.  Based on some info I had in an online chat with TESU, 16 hours credit hours must be through them.  Is this true, or is the Capstone the only *Required* course through them?  Also, one thread on the forum states that study.com is losing ability to provide upper level courses with TESU.  What alternatives do I have?  Would enrolling with TESU now fix that?  Finally, if I have ~10-15 hours per week to dedicate to degree prep, what is a reasonable timeline for finishing a bachelor's degree?
Thanks in advance for your help!

The 16 credit hours they were referring to is to satisfy the residency requirement.  This is pretty generous compared to most colleges that require you to take the majority of your courses through them.  With tesu you can go one step beyond this though and pay the "residency waiver" what this does is allow you to transfer all of your credit from outside sources and the only class you need to take with them is the capstone. The waiver is 1800 with study.com affiliation or i think 2500 normally. The affiliation will also let you waive the cornerstone course and a discounted tuition rate to take the capstone. Most of the courses effected by the upper level/lower level issue are for liberal arts majors.  Study.com is reworking some courses to have them evaluated by ace as upper level instead of lower level.  On top of this even if a course is recommended for LL tesu can still choose to continue accepting it as UL coursework. There are other options for the business courses that could be affected such as davar or teceps so I wouldn't fret over it too much.  Its hard to say how long it will take you but I can say I just started about 6 weeks ago and I have completed 23 credits so far while still working a full time job.  The straighterline tests are all open book except for the final and can be completed pretty quickly.  I can remember wondering if I should put an application in or not and worrying about what tecep i would take to be able to enroll before my first year ran out. Now it looks like I should be able to take my capstone no problem to satisfy the requirement and graduate shortly thereafter.  Your personal mileage will vary depending on your reading retention and how well you are at testing.  If you haven't taken an ethics course there is the free one from the institutes you can get out of the way.

edit since dfrecore was faster than me... I would like to add since it might be of interest to others, I was wondering if I could pay my residency waiver before the deadline in june in order to get the cheaper price and then graduate sometime after that. I was told no but they did say not to think of that date as a deadline it just means that they will revisit it again at that time similar to the way the dates in the ace registry are renewed every so often. The prices could change as with anything but they will still have the affiliate thing after june.