Are there Degree Planning Consultants?

[rachel83az]

It is always confusing to get started. The biggest issue is that there is no "one good way" to get a degree. It depends heavily on your personal circumstances. What is right for you will not be right for anyone else. For instance, your post indicates that liberal studies could be a good option for you but it would likely be a wholly inappropriate option for someone who wanted to go into programming or technology.

There are a handful of us who have been around for a while and who are relatively familiar with the degree-seeking process. Each of us has a different idea of what the best course of action might be for a given student. Charter Oak is a long-time favorite due to its low cost. But it has a number of significant drawbacks. TESU is the most expensive, but they offer degrees you can't easily get elsewhere (such as math). Excelsior is in the middle as far as cost goes but they also have a few downsides. UMPI is 100% the most straightforward approach, but some people don't like the idea of competency-based degrees.

If you just want someone to tell you what to do: my first post outlined exactly how to get an associate's degree from Pierpont and then to continue on to UMPI. If you don't feel like that's right for you, please feel free to go back to your original thread and ask questions. Why won't that work for you? What are you looking for? Even if you got one of us as your personal degree consultant, you'd still have to answer these questions and you'd have plenty of questions of your own. Don't feel bad about asking questions. It's what we're here for. We've all had to start at the beginning at one time or another.