Flexible schools other than the Big Three?

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If he needs an online education, the best so far would be his own state community college, if he is in CA or NM, those are the cheapest in-state tuition, if out of state, I would suggest sticking with NMJC.  Has he looked at the other competency-based programs such as Brandman and NAU, U Wisconsin, etc?

Do you know if any of those competency self-paced ones have real grades for each class, and calculated official GPA? I guess I assumed they all did not, like WGU. If you don't know, he can email or search.

This may not matter, but the entire APUS system now caps alternative credit at 30 for a bachelor's degree- so that includes ACE / CLEP/ AP / PLA /etc.  If his associate's degree contained any of those, they'll "unbundle" his degree and count them toward that total.   They are on the less expensive side for people who want grades and are using aid.  They used to have multiple options for course length (8, 16, and even 5 week I think) but I'm not seeing that on their website now, so I don't know if that's still an option.  But, if he's using aid, there will be parameters for the terms as well as number of classes to take.

Aside from the alternative credit cap, I love AMU/APU.  I think they have some of the coolest majors around.

Oh no about the cap. So that might be low on the list of options. Thanks for the heads up on that.