Degree planning advice, fastest way, need help

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First, I'm going to challenge a course: ANTH01 is actually Biological Anthropology at MCC, and is considered a NatSci course - so I'm going to send TESU the syllabus and a page from the catalog showing that it's a NatSci course, and have them change that and put it in science.

Second, I'm going to suggest some other options, since you mentioned FAST being your #1 goal; and a business degree is not actually necessary but probably your "bent" if you suggested it:

1) TESU BALS, with Undergrad cert in Ops Management - this gives an "oomph" to your general degree, but allows you to bring in 30cr of Free Electives, making you that much closer to a degree (the BSBA only allows 15cr of FE's and you have 36cr there already) - you'll end up taking 9 more credits that are FE's, but that's still better than losing 21cr that you have now: https://www.tesu.edu/heavin/ba/liberal-studies and https://www.tesu.edu/business/undergradu...management (Computer Concepts and Applications counts as a science, Stats will count as your Quantitative Literacy, and MIS will be an UL Liberal Arts course, so you get 9cr that you can use in the degree)

2) EC's BPS, which is just a different kind of business degree, still plenty of business courses there, but more flexible - and also allows for 33cr of Free Electives (as opposed to 6cr for the Business degree): https://www.excelsior.edu/program/bachel...anagement/

3) UMPI's BLS w/minor in Management - a "business-lite" degree, but flexible in allowing 54cr of Free Electives: https://online.umpi.edu/degrees/undergra...ent-minor/

For price, it depends:

1) TESU will be $3210 for reimbursable tuition (6cr), and then $3586 in non-reimbursable fees if you do the per-credit tuition
2) TESU will be $4778 for reimbursable tuition (16cr), and then $298 in non-reimbursable fees if you do a FT/FR 16cr term that we discuss on here (and this will be a crazy 12 weeks for you)
3) EC will be $3570 for reimbursable tuition (7cr), and then $461 in non-reimbursable fees (and you can take Info Lit & the cornerstone in one 8week term, and then the capstone in a separate 8week term, thus disrupting your family time less than the others I think)
4) UMPI will be $1400/term x however many terms you take (usually 2, but some have done it in 1 and others with multiple minors in 3); no non-reimbursable fees for you except maybe a graduation fee or something like that (haven't heard of one though)

IMHO, if you want the biggest bang for your buck, you should do the UMPI BLS degree - I think it will be the fastest and easiest and cheapest out-of-pocket for you. The best way to see if it will work though, is by signing up for Sophia and doing ALL of your GEC possible there, and then some (for the remaining Free Electives) and then signing up for Study.com and doing your American Government and Bio w/Lab. If you can really hammer through these courses quickly (say 5+ courses in a month), then you are proving to yourself that you can do the UMPI competency-based degree. If you get stuck, and can't motivate yourself without deadlines, then you're probably better off at EC or TESU.

Second choice, or if UMPI is not for you - EC's BPS. I think this is a solid degree, and I think the pricing is better than TESU - certainly better than their per-credit plan, and easier than their FT/FR plan.