IT degree with A levels & 7 years of work experience

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For the GECs, you need to fill in all GEC requirements, not just meet credit requirements. Check https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/UM...quivalents for details.

This part seems confusing, but I will look into it.

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I don't see enough science and no foreign language. If you're (even partly) fluent in Russian, you can take an ACTFL exam.
If you're hoping that the science and foreign language requirements are being covered by the diploma that you're transferring in, you should put that in your spreadsheet.
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Language requirements - Will try the transfer. But I'm bilingual, so yeah, will do the ACTFL exam. Speaking/listening OCIc exam right?
Science - Will also try the transfer, but if not, then I'm not quite sure what exactly needs to be done or added to the spreadsheet.

I would not do Sophia's PM course, nor the Coursera PM certificate. Doing them outside of UMPI will make BUS401 more difficult. BUS141, BUS400, and BUS401 are a sequence of extremely related courses. Better to do them all at UMPI.

But why?

If you're doing the Google Data Analytics Certificate and IBM Data Analysis and Visualization Foundation Specialization Certificate, that's 12 of your 21 electives right there. Instead of doing random courses at Sophia that don't interest you, you could complete any one of the following certificates: Google IT Support Professional, IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional, or IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional. If you take an ACTFL and score well, you can get up to 12 language credits - 3 would go into the GECs and 9 would go into electives. That would also fill out the elective requirement.

These are really interesting! I started in IT back in 2012, and back then we didn't really have any courses, certificates, or even YouTube videos. People were learning by themselves by reading blogs. So it's nice to see something so structured and also provided by companies like Google or IBM.

I've checked each certificate; it has a link to the ACE website, and from what I understood, this is how much credit they would give:
Google Data Analytics Certificate - 12 credits
IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional - 18 credits
IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional - 10 credits
IBM Data Analysis and Visualization Foundation Specialization Certificate - 9 credits
Google IT Support Professional - 12 credits