Struggling to find the right school(mid-30s with GED)

[jaytea89]

If you only looked at the Biology degree plan on the TESU website, I suggest you also look at the one on the Wiki: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...egree_Plan

The TESU degree plans list individual courses and make it look like those are the only courses you can take, when in actuality, they will accept a wide range of bio courses in the Area of Study (AOS). If you have specific courses you want to take, you can run them past us or past TESU advising and they will likely work.

Unfortunately, I rather doubt your alternative credit is going to transfer to UI. You will likely have to choose between that route or the alt credit, DIY degree approach.

After checking out that wiki it does look more customizable than I originally thought, but it does still require some physics classes that aren't required in the animal science majors I had been looking at. Still sounds like it would be worth at least talking to them though. 

I was thinking the same thing about the ACE credit transfers. It would be nice if I could get IU to at least accept the absolute basic stuff like College Algebra, Introductory Biology, etc., but I'm not expecting much.

I did find a lot of interesting info while browsing around though! New Mexico Junior College(your link lists it for some of the TESU BA) has AA and AS degrees for general education that can be done online, and it ends up being a bit over $2000 cheaper than Ivy Tech for the degree. Seems like it will be transferrable to IU or Unity. I also learned about TEL Learning and how their online courses award RA credits from one of their partner schools and costs only $67 per credit. Is that too good to be true or is it worth looking into more? I also found Outlier which costs twice as much(still cheaper than community college) and has courses transcribed by University of Pittsburg, but I think the information about them on the wiki might be outdated.