BA History (Experienced student)

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Wow! Are you me? I applied to OSU, IU and SNHU as well. I left off ASU and UA as my interests are more ancient.

You are correct that IU satellite schools are not held to the same reputation standard. I did check on the profs teaching the class though and they call come from decent bakcgrounds. The schools essentially share eachothers classes except for Bloomington.

OSU and IU are neck and neck to me but I rather go with IU based on class choice. Cost is similar.

UI springfield is an option too. There are actually quite a few other online program but their costs are higher 400-600 a credit.

LSU is the Alexandria campus. It will not say LSU on the degree, unfortunately. They also wanted my HS transcripts...

UMPI is tempting obviously but I dont have time to gut out all those courses in a term. They also want 48 credits in history. Not sure if my grad classes count? I did 0 history in undergrad. 

Open UK has an excellent rep by the way. I did my masters in the UK. It was excellent.

What UMPI history courses did you take? Did you need to do all 48 credits or just 30?

Some colleges of the IU system operate across campuses but unfortunately again the department of history does not. Among all other campuses, IUPUI provides an online history program and declared that it will split into two separate universities, IUI and PUI. I am not sure but the new IU Indianapolis may be a good choice.

As of UMPI, GEC can be waived for a second degree so I need only to do 48 credits of history courses. Although I took courses in Ancient Greek and Roman History and the Foundation of Latin, they did not recognize any because all my undergraduate courses were translated as General Electives and the credits were grouped together by semester, which is pretty weird.... much less to say graduate level credits....

Anyway, it is still cost-efficient for a bachelor's degree even if you finish all courses in 3-4 sessions. So I transferred 6 courses from Sophia, US History I&II, Spanish I&II, US Government and Topics in US History, and planned to take the rest 10 at UMPI to fulfill the residence requirement. In summer term 2, I enrolled 4 courses World Civ I&II, Medieval & Early Modern Europe.