CompSci Degree Outline Help

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For a CompSci degree, there are really only 2 options on this board that we discuss:
1) TESU BA in CompSci, where most of the Major courses are from Study.com, and the remainder of the credits can be done through ACE/NCCRS providers
2) WGU BS in CompSci, where most of the Major will be done at WGU (it's a CBE program), and you can do about 90cr through a combination of ACE credit providers (SDC, Sophia, Saylor, DSST, CLEP, etc)

Both are good options, and both have lots of people on this board who have completed the program, so there's lot of good info on here for them.

Your best bet, IMHO, is to look at both, and make a degree plan for each, and take courses that will work for both degrees (for instance, both will take the College Composition w/Essay CLEP (FREE through ModernStates) as their Written English requirement; both will take the Ethics of Technology DSST exam as their ethics course (it's required at WGU, and the only place to take it outside of WGU is as the DSST); both will take the American Gov CLEP exam; both will take a Public Speaking course (required for WGU, and accepted for the Oral Comm portion of the GE at TESU).

Once you go through each degree to determine where you can take the credits (do WGU first), you can compare and figure out where you want to get everything, and then go about doing that. Once you've taken those credits, you'll have a better understanding of what it takes to get credit, which provider you like best, and whether you're going through fast enough to go the CBE route or want to go a bit slower and do TESU.

Again, either option is good, so you can't go wrong no matter what you decide.