CUNY - Online Degree Completion ($4,575! Transfer up to 105 credits out of 120!)

[rachel83az]

It looks like if you want a cheap degree business would be the way to go. I did a VERY rough guess based on the following information:

https://www.cuny.edu/about/administratio...ays/gened/
https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/...h-2020.pdf

This does not guarantee that anything will transfer in the way you want it but it's more to serve as a VERY rough guide as to what might be possible.

Common core:

• English Composition - Language & Composition, Literature & Composition @ TEL Learning - Mid-American. 
  
• Mathematical & Quantitative reasoning - College Algebra @ Saylor OR College algebra OR Quantitative Analysis I @ TEL Learning - Mid-American
  
• Life & Physical sciences - Introduction to Biology @ TEL Learning OR BIO101 @ TEL Learning
  

Flexible Common Core:

• World Cultures & Global Issues - Introduction to Comparative Politics @ Saylor
  
• US Experience in its Diversity - HIST 2103 US History I OR HIST 2203 US History II @ TEL Learning - Mid-American
  
• Creative Expression - COM 1103 Introduction to Communications @ TEL Learning - Mid-American
  
• Individual & Society - ECN 212 Microeconomic Princples @ ASU EA
  
• Scientific World - PHYS101 Introduction to Mechanics @ Saylor
  
• Pick one more class in flexible common core - PSYS102 Introduction to Electromagnetism @ Saylor OR Princples of Psychology @ TEL Learning - Mid-American
  

CUNY admits 10 business courses from Saylor.  If one goes for a business degree and takes the 4 listed Saylor classes above for common core, that potentially brings the total up to 42 credits from Saylor. Take a business CLEP that doesn't overlap (if available) or a Saylor elective to bring the total up to 45 alternate credits.

TEL Learning in the above list makes up 4 classes - 12 credits. ASU is one class. 

Saylor cost - 45 credits - $375
ASU cost - 3 credits - $425
TEL Learning cost  - 12 credits - $800 ($867 if they require a science lab but that doesn't appear to be the case).

Total potential cost for 57 credits: $1600.

That leaves a total of 48 RA credits available. Since UExcels are counted as alternate and not RA credit, I'm not sure that TECEPS would work as RA credits either. And I can't find exact requirements for a business degree from CUNY so I can't even begin to guess at what other courses might transfer in. But let's say that you're able to find the rest at an average cost of $150 per credit (some cheaply from Luna, some cost more elsewhere). That's $7200.

As a rough estimate, that brings the cost to $1600 + $7200 + $4575 = $13,375 if you were to start the degree from scratch tomorrow.

If TECEPs are accepted, and you can find an applicable number to transfer in, that would certainly help bring the cost of the degree down by thousands. 

If all of the above assumptions are true (in regard to costs), this does bring CUNY down to the realm of (close to) the Big 3, at least if you are getting a business degree.