Help with the fastest/cheapest option for a BALS

[rachel83az]

With that many RA credits available, you'd be good for either COSC or UMPI. They both have their own advantages and disadvantages. COSC might be slightly cheaper but UMPI would possibly be the fastest.

With both schools, you'd fill in gaps in your gen eds with Sophia.

For UMPI, you'd also need 3 credits in a foreign language. InstantCert would be the cheapest alternate-credit way to do this but you could just take French or Spanish through UMPI. You'd then enroll at UMPI and finish in 4-6 months by taking at least 30 credits through them.

For COSC, you could follow this roadmap: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...ts_Roadmap (I really need to do the basic General Studies degree, but you should have a good enough idea with the History concentration). You would need 27 UL credits through Study.com, UExcel, TECEPs, Olivet Nazarene, and so forth. SDC limits you to 5 exams in a month (15 credits) but, for ULs, you're really probably only going to get 2 or 3 done in most circumstances. ONU courses will probably take you at least 2 weeks per class, if not more. IIRC, the capstone and cornerstone are both 15 weeks. Between SDC and the capstone/cornerstone, I'm guessing that the very fastest that you could get a degree at COSC would be 10 months.

Which one is best for you is going to depend on your priorities. I think that, when you account for the cost of SDC and other sources of credit, UMPI would likely be both faster and cheaper. On the other hand, if you want to be able to easily set your studies aside because of RL, COSC might be the better option for you.