Dual Degree at UMPI

[freeloader]

I have a BLS with 3 minors including Management. I also have a BABA with the Marketing Concentration. The BLS was much faster and easier for me to complete. I was also the first student on here to complete an UMPI degree so we didn't have the info we have today. Most of the BABA courses are not included in the BLS with Management Minor. There's only 6 courses in the minor and many more in the BABA. The BABA with Marketing Concentration didn't exist when I was in the BLS program. If you already have a BABA I don't know that you can go back for a BLS.

Yes, and thank you for being the proverbial Guinea pig with UMPI.  You are certainly one of the people who inspired me to attend UMPI, so I owe you some gratitude. 

I understand that the BLS was faster for you (and would be faster for the OP). If I understood correctly, your plan was to get through with your degree quickly and then, when UMPI rolled out the BABA with Marketing concentration, you decided to go back to UMPI for the second degree. If memory serves, you said it would be faster and cheaper than getting a graduate degree in marketing. If my memory and understanding of your situation is correct, all of that makes perfect sense. I was not trying to be critical of you or anything; I hope you don’t think I was. 

I am still curious why OP feels the need to earn two bachelors degrees very close in time to one another and with a similar focus. Don’t get me wrong, I have 2 BA’s—a 15+ year old BA in history and a 6 month old BA in Accounting/Business Administration. I needed an accounting degree to basically formalize changing career fields and getting the second BA was the best, fastest, and cheapest way for me to do that. 

So, what is the case for earning both the BLS and BABA?  Would finishing them BLS perhaps a couple of months earlier than a BABA help secure a job or promotion that requires a degree?  

If OP ultimately wants a BABA, why not go straight to the BABA?  Why even consider a UMPI BLS and a TAMUC BA?  I just don’t see the utility from an employment or subsequent/graduate educational standpoint in the BLS in that situation.