A bachelors plan for my son

[dfrecore]

UMPI is a no name school. Why do you recommend that? unless you're on an extreme budget, I wouldn't recommend UMPI or Excelsior.

I recommend:

1. Take max 60 CLEP exam credits
2. Take 30 online community college credits
3. Transfer the 90 credits to ASU, finish the degree in 1 year.

It costs 1 year worth of tuition fee plus exam fees plus online community college tuition.
But he can be a graduate at ASU. That'll be much more helpful for job search.

ASU is fine, but nothing special.

You're assuming that you can transfer in 90cr between CC & CLEP, but that's not necessarily true.  I just looked at the Business degree - there are 20 UL courses required.  That means 60cr that you can't transfer in from CLEP or a CC.  That's at least 2 years at ASU - so minimum of $30k if you're out-of-state.  Not at all worth it.

Go try it with a few other degrees and see what it says, I'll be it's the same or worse.