Is excelsior still the quickest and cheapest?

[mikehart82]

If you're okay with writing essays, UMPI is both cheaper and faster than Excelsior. If you're ambivalent about writing essays (you can do them, but you wanted to avoid them), Excelsior can still be slight faster & cheaper, but it's almost even. If you want to avoid essays as much as possible , you can take Coopersmith courses instead of UExcels and finish of your degree at Excelsior that way.

Right now, you still don't have a lot of Sophia credits, relatively speaking, so "better" is going to be defined by how you feel about papers/projects. Almost all UMPI courses are finished with a single paper or project. Those that are not, they have exams. There are very few exams.

I'd be willing to pay slightly more to avoid writing papers, provided I can still bang everything out pretty quickly.