8 years later

[davewill]

I understand exactly where you're coming from and think you have the right idea. Rather than picking the fastest or cheapest, you need to pick something that you can do a little at a time, and that will motivate you to stick to the grindstone. To me that sounds like either an IT or CS degree from one of the Big3. I'm going to talk about TESU because they have both BACS and BSIT. It may be that you can consider COSC as well, but I don't know as much about their offerings. That way you can plug away on it one or two courses at a time and even take short breaks without derailing entirely.

So here's how you proceed.

1. Post all of your completed credits here.
2. Apply to TESU. This is both to get your credits planned out AND to help commit you to your degree path by putting some skin in the game.
3. Send them all your transcripts.
4. It will take a long time before you hear back from them, so in the meanwhile, start getting credits that will be useful in both degrees. We'll help you with that once we see what you have.
5. Once you decide on a degree, work with us to finish planning the degree and start doing the courses at whatever pace you can sustain. Find ways to keep motivated, even if they seem silly like having a chart on the wall where you check off courses as you go.
6. DON'T STOP
7. Graduate
8. Profit...

What you don't want to do is wait around looking for the perfect plan instead of getting started and getting done.

This is basically how I got my BACS. I did not have time to blitz through courses like crazy, so a competency program like WGU would have been a complete non-starter. Instead, I plugged my way through one test or course at a time. It took me about the same length of time to finish my degree as it would have if I had gone to school full time, but it didn't take anything like the time commitment that full time school would have taken. @dfrecore did her business degree in a very similar manner.