Next after WGU BSN with TESU credits banked

[Merlin]

The downside of finishing fast at WGU is you cant start a new program until your term ends. Which wont be until November for me. I don't want to sit idley that whole time.

While you cannot begin the next degree at WGU until your current term ends, November isn't that far away in the grand scheme of things and you can begin working on banking credits towards a BSCS right away. You need to complete your courses by October to get them evaluated for a November start anyway, so that is only 3 months... which may be cutting it short depending on how many credits you want to complete from ACE providers like Straighterline/Study.com/Saylor and how many you are comfortable with completing at WGU directly.

It is unlikely that you will be able to complete things any faster via TESU anyway, and it definitely won't be cheaper.

For the TESU BACS you'll need at least 24 new credits earned after your most recent degree, but the BACS has 39 credits of required courses in the major. You're allowed 9 credits of overlap between your old coursework and the new one, so that will leave quite a few courses that still need to be completed via ACE providers. So you'll have the balance of courses to complete (up to 36 credits worth) via ACE, plus a month for evaluation, then time to register for and complete a 15-week capstone course. After you complete that, you'll need to wait up to 5 months for the next commencement ceremony to graduate. So you're looking at 6-11 months right there depending on how quickly you can complete the ACE courses and the timing on the commencement ceremony. Plus you're looking at at least 50-100% more in costs as well.

I'm fairly confident that after you finish the credits you want from SL/SDC/Saylor (many of which are the same for both degrees) you could complete the last few credits you need at WGU and graduate much faster than you can at TESU.

I figure I would finish up a degree at TESU, then consider Masters at WGU. No way I go Masters anywhere else unless I decide to do it right after I graduate next week and then Walden looks the most like WGU's program. I don't want to waste all the credits I acquired and are sitting at TESU. So I was going to do the BALS NSAM and drop a CIS cert in it at TESU, because it is easier to complete than the BACS. That hi level math is scaring me. But then again, after dusting off this degree in 2 months, I feel i little supercharged!!!

You're going to need Calculus and Discrete Math for either degree. So you might as well plan to take those from Straighterline (calculus) and Study.com (discrete math) before you begin. Discrete math is much less complex and you don't need calculus for it, so that could be taken first or after calculus.

The credits you acquired won't go to waste. They can be used for either degree. Well, you can use up to 9 credits of them towards a second degree at TESU since they were earned before your BSN was completed. TESU will still require at least 24 new credits to be earned after your BSN is awarded.

Either way I don't recommend a BALS as a second degree ever. It is a checkbox degree and won't offer any value considering you'll already have the BSN.