TESU, when should I enroll?

[dfrecore]

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.  

Most colleges do not require you to take the majority of your courses through them. Most have a residency requirement that you can't get out of, and the most common one that I've heard is 30 credits - or even "the last 30 credits."

And, since TESU is crazy expensive compared to many of these schools (at $499/cr hour, that's $60k for 120 credits). At that price, it's $8000 for just 16 credits. Yikes. At that point, you would be smarter to switch to the Comprehensive Plan, for $9820 OOS, and take 36 credits.

Anyway, the cheapest thing to do with most degrees where you can get a lot of inexpensive credits is to pay the residency waiver.