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[ss20ts]

If you want an UMPI degree don't waste your time or money on the PLAs. They also don't count in the 30 credit residency requirement. I looked into them and was told the YourPace classes are faster. You only have 1 paper to write in the YourPace classes. The PLAs require multiple papers and documentation from managers. Also most people on here are only taking classes at UMPI for 1 (8 weeks) or 2 sessions (16 weeks) which is $1400 or $2800 plus the cost of the Sophia/Study.com/InstantCert courses.

ACE credits aren't really PLAs. They're transfer credit.

UMPI explicitly refers to ACE, CLEP, DANTES, Portfolio, et al, "collectively as Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)." I'm not even considering Portfolio Assessment, which is what I think you think I meant. Ain't got time for that. Only considering ACE + existing RA creds + 30 residency creds. If I can transfer in, for example, nearly all the requirements for a BBA, and then take the 30 SH residency in the missing pieces plus additional concentrations or minors that actually interest me, that would be perfectly aligned with my professional and personal academic goals.

Props to you by the way, ss20ts. Through your posts I learned that it's now possible to return for an additional degree after BAS/BLS conferral, so I may pursue one of those first for the "quick credentials" then come back later or move on to a graduate program.

The catalog words things really weird. When you speak to the YourPace staff they don't talk like how things are worded in the catalog. It's so weird how ACE, CLEP, and AP are lumped in with PLAs....yet RA transfer credit isn't. It's just weird. The last paragraph of that section of the catalog talks about PLAs. 

Just to let you know it's a BA in Business Administration not a BBA degree. There is a BBA degree and some people confuse them with the business degree at UMPI. I understand why. It is odd to get a BA in Bus Admin. I haven't seen one elsewhere. Even a BLS is an odd degree. 

Yes you can now complete your BLS, graduate, then return for a BA. You do have to graduate first. Then you have to complete an additional 30 credits at UMPI. I don't think you can do the BABA then come back for the BLS. I could be wrong. When I started in 2020 you couldn't come back for a BA if you finished a BLS which made no sense. I was told over and over it was a terminal degree and I wasn't allowed back. I was like I graduated with a 4.0 and I'm willing to pay you cash and you don't want me? Huh? They have changed the policy. Finally! Maybe someone got sick of me asking. LOL 

Getting my BABA did help me with grad school. It waived me from several undergrad business requirements. I wouldn't have been waived without that degree. It's not like this at all schools or all grad degrees. MBA's quite often have undergrad prereqs and that's what I was waived from thankfully!