1 credit TECEP= $25

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Please give me more info about how TECEP exams make enrollment in TESU cheaper and easier? Also, how much is 3 semester hours? I am thinking of taking the College Algebra course.

To officially enroll at TESU you must either sign up and pay for their comprehensive tuition plan ($7,519 or $9,967 per year for up to 36 credits), or register for and take a course under the per-credit tuition plan. On the per-credit tuition plan, each course taken via TESU directly will run you $366 per credit (assuming you're on the Study.com discount, otherwise it is $396 or $499 per credit). So if you take a 3 credit course, that will run you $1,098 per course.

Lower-level TECEP exams are $25 per credit but are mostly treated as if you took the course at the university. So, if you take the TECEP exam for a 3 credit course, you end up paying $75 instead of $1,098.

At $75 for a 3 credit course, that makes lower-level TECEP exams cheaper than taking them via Straighterline or Study.com. However, you have to study for them on your own since TESU doesn't provide materials. They do give you a guide that explains the exam and the study materials they recommend, but it's up to you to use them or not as you wish.

Unfortunately, the upper-level TECEP exams are $75 per credit now, so a 3 credit TECEP exam is $225. That is still a lot cheaper than the regular tuition, but much more expensive than most of the other alternative credit options.

As for semester hours, TESU is on the semester hour system (as opposed to the quarter hour system), so 1 credit is the same as 1 semester hour.

Most of us here on this forum take most of our courses elsewhere and only take the capstone at TESU, so we end up just paying $1,098 for that course. That means we don't enroll until we're almost ready to graduate. However, some prefer to enroll earlier to get access to advising. That means paying to take a course at TESU or taking a TECEP exam instead.

This is the best explanation I've read so far. I was previously enrolled at TESU back in 2015 when the cheapest enrollment option was to register for 4 TECEP exams (12 credits). The cost for that was somewhere between $400 - $450, so having to pay only $25 or $225 instead is amazing. I let those 4 TECEP exams go to waste back then because of personal life issues I was dealing with at the time, but it's nice to come back with better and cheaper exam options.

Has the amount of time they give you to take the TECEP exam changed? Before, TESU gave you a year to take the exam, is this still the same today?

So after conversing with TESU, they've made it clear that in order to gain enrollment status using TECEP exams, you'd have to register for at least 3 credits. Registering for the $25 Medical Terminology TECEP wouldn't be enough. So the cheapest option to enroll would be $75 for one lower-level TECEP exam or $225 for an upper-level one that's worth 3 credits.