PhD IT, $383 PCH, Bachelors entry, thoughts!?

[armstrongsubero]

Well I'm hoping to start by January 2019. Since the government paid for my local B&M credits, I had to reimburse all the costs to get it transferred to TESU and that was money I was saving for my residency requirement fees and Patten to start in September this year. So I'm hoping to take Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr 2019 and finish Patten and start a PhD in fall 2019, so even if I need two terms I'll still have enough time.

I will still have time even if it's terrible. As we speak I'm doing Shmoop professional writing for my final UL, then it's on to SL to finish Microeconomics and C++. After that only the capstone. I was planning on doing Saylor Software Engineering and Microeconomics but the structure is horrible! After I finish those and wait to finish the Capstone (might start in May or August depending on time and funds), I'll start studying for the GRE, it seems important for the bachelors to PhD programs or most of the PhD programs I'm interested in.

Yeah the tuition is a lot. I was considering Patten then Aspen because of the monthly payment, I think it's the fastest, cheapest most convenient route to a PhD for an online student. Though I guess with a Nations MTS which is free for me Aspen may accept me. The thing is after I finish my BALS I'll get a pay increase so hopefully that will help a little. It's hard to find a balance between what you want to do and what you can do.

It seems for B&M schools, it's easy to get a PhD for almost free...

You should consider Patten, it's insane a masters is fast and cheap at the same time, usually you must choose fast or cheap. I'm worried they may close though. My exposure to online schools din't start too well, I was enrolled in the Cleveland Institute of Electronics, doing an AAS in Software Engineering and halfway though my program they lost accreditation. Since then schools like Patten have me worried, so I want to start and finish Patten ASAP. Even Aspen has me a bit worried, I wonder how good they'll do...

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I was also thinking of doing the Harvard extension school masters in software engineering...2700 a course dosent seem that bad compared to some of the prices of doing a doctorate...idk..