Needs help deciding on degree (BACS vs BSIT vs BSBA)

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Thanks, that's exactly what I'd like to do, get the Bachelors quick, and then purse a MS from an institution with more brand cachet. At this point it's either the BSBA-CIS or the BACS from TESU. They both overlap about 90% on the classes and would come out to the same cost. I know the next question is subjective, but for those who've done one or the other, which is better?

The WGU degree will be much less than TESU if you can do 1 term, and if you can't then somewhat less in 2 terms.  TESU is roughly $7500 now, and that price will be going up with the new cornerstone requirement coming in.  So $8300 ish.

WGU will be less than $5000 if you can do a term (that would include bringing in courses), and less than $7500 in 2 terms.

The BSBA is a BUSINESS degree, while the BACS is a COMPUTER SCIENCE degree.  Completely different animals.  With the CS degree, you're going to have to get through Calc I, discrete math, and some other things.  At this point, there is no inexpensive way (under $100) to get Data Structures, so add $1000 or so to your cost and time to take that somewhere like a CC.

I think WGU is your best option for an IT degree, and for any of my friends who are coming in with 0 credits, and want IT or business, I always tell them to go WGU.  I only tell people to use TESU if you have a lot of GE courses that you're going to lose going to WGU (and even then, I still lean towards WGU).