my unofficial transcript - your profound wisdom

[dfrecore]

Wow, Dfrecore.  Thank you so very much for such a detailed post.  Excellent.

I've not actually been flipping coins for majors.  I actually obtained my AAS in physical therapy.  I was in and completed my PTA program years ago.  I practiced successfully for a while and then had an opportunity to jump into the business/sales side of medicine.  All of the additional credits either came from prior to my entering the PTA program (there was a waiting list at the time), or post program at university working in another direction.

My managerial accounting and finance courses were both taken at a B&M university, both 300 level courses.  Shouldn't this help my quest for UL credits, somewhat?

The $6,700 and $6,000 estimates for the BSBA and BALS are inclusive of the corner/capstones, yes?  That seems a little high.  However, you definitely know WAY more than I.

Irrespective of degree choices listed above, shouldn't I be able to take all remaining courses, lower or upper level, all through study.com and the likes?

So you would apply at COSC as well to see what they may accept?

I'm not certain if the BALS or BSLS will be any less helpful than a BSBA in the business world.  Thoughts?

Also, thank you to Natshar, LevelUp and BJ as well for your responses.

I'm not saying you didn't have a reason to change majors, I'm just saying that when you do, you end up with a situation like yours, where a bunch of credits won't apply to the new degree.  I also see a bunch of Psych courses, so I thought you might have been a Psych major at some point.

TESU counts Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting as LL no matter where you take them, or what level they were at the previous school.  COSC will as well I think.  The Finance course was brought in as LL, but TESU WILL take that as an UL course - so I'm not sure what happened there.  If you appealed it, and said it was UL at your previous school, you might be able to use it as an UL AOS course in the finance area, and then take a LL finance course in the core.  I'm not sure what COSC will do.

TESU is going to cost more just because of the cornerstone and capstone ($1137 each) and the residency waiver ($2800).  That, along with the graduation fee ($298) puts you at $5372 - which doesn't include the cost of the courses you'll need to finish your degree.  COSC is going to be less: app fee ($50), Student Services fee ($266 per term), Tech fee ($68 per term), cornerstone & capstone ($1131 each), and graduate fee ($203) puts you at $2849, then add the courses you need to take.  That residency waiver is a killer.

Now as for which degree: in your original post, you said you needed "a" degree, you did not say you needed a BSBA degree.  So, that is why I suggested a BALS from TESU, or better yet, a BSLS from COSC.  You also said you were planning an MBA afterwards.  You do not need a BSBA to get an MBA, so that's why I suggested other options.  It's totally up to you how you do it, I was just giving you some different things to think about.