Accelerated Business Degree from a known college

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Would SUNY Empire fit the bill for a “known college?” If so, that MIGHT be a route to go. My GF went there for a short time. She was majoring in Business Management and Economics with a Healthcare focus, or some title that would mean that.

The upsides: if the name is worth recognition, it may check that box for you. They actual seem very generous with alt credits, life learning, etc. Their online student prices seem to be less per semester than TESU, even if you are out of state.

The downsides: the counselor for that department (or at least the one she has) is absolutely worthless and makes the process A LOT harder than it should be because he knows and does nothing. You have to take a class with the counselor to basically build your own degree that fits their “learning objectives,” and because of this the closest I can find to a degree requirement is some degrees have a sample. 31 required credits through them. 48 (it may be little less, but definitely in the 40s) required upper level credits.

In summary: from my experience, we looked back into it after she did some community college courses, took some Sophia, took some ACTFL, etc. and it seems like an option that may work for someone with 90ish credits (at least 21 of them being upper level), but the whole process just feels kind of hoakie. A person could come in with all the credits, take the counseling class and 3 others their first semester, expecting to take the last 4 the next semester, and be told “naaaah…. I know we expect you to tell us what classes fit the requirements, but those credits don’t really fit. You should go study street art and body tattooing (yes. Those were on one of the examples), and stay another semester.” If a person were to have everything planned out, start from scratch, use this forum, take that counseling class first, and just run alt credits concurrent with the SUNY courses, the year or so process may not be bad. For someone with a bunch of credits who wants to be able to map them against requirements to see where they sit and make a decision, I feel like the process may be an annoying grind. Either way, just throwing it out there, in case it does fit what you are looking for.