TESU Bachelor to Masters Program Plan Cheap and Fast?

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TESU states a requirement for admission to the Bachelor's to Master's Program is a minimum TESU GPA of 3.0. Transfer credit is not counted towards the TESU GPA. This implies you would need to have taken at least one prior course from TESU.

You might want to confirm in advance with TESU if it's possible to meet the minimum requirements for the BTM program, and apply, but be told no, and if it is possible, for what reasons.

Students in the Bachelor's to Master's program pay undergraduate tuition, but that might imply normal "Per Credit Undergraduate Tuition," not the "discounted Full-Time Flat-Rate Tuition" that many of our people use (e.g., for a "15-credit term.") (TESU Tuition and Fees)

The Full-Time Flat-Rate Tuition is based on the length of an undergraduate term, which is 12 weeks (except for the School of Nursing and Health Professions). But the graduate School of Business and Management uses an 8-week term. (TESU Academic Calendars)

I'm skeptical about whether TESU would allow a BTM student to take a load of 12 graduate semester hours during one 8-week term. They might not even offer all four of those courses during one 8-week term.

545 per-credit out-of-state undergraduate tuition x (3 sh initial course to get a 3.0 TESU GPA + 12 sh BTM business courses + 3 sh capstone) = 9810 would be much more expensive than a waiver or a straight undergraduate 15-credit term. And then you'd have boxed yourself in to an MBA that accepts these 12 sh transfer credit (or an MBA from TESU), whereas your ideal master's degree might be something else.

There would be some advantage from having the same work count toward both undergraduate and graduate levels.

For price comparison...

Amberton's grad courses are $300 per credit so $900 per course plus around $35 per term fees. MBAs are 36 credits at Amberton. They're graded RA credits as well. Amberton does accept some grad transfer credit, but only on courses 3 credits and they have to apply to your degree. 

As an MBA grad, I cannot imagine a college allowing an undergrad to take 4 grad courses in a single term. I was unemployed as a grad student and took 4 classes 1 term. It was ridiculously difficult! Soooo much reading and writing. Grad courses are much more work than undergrad. If someone doesn't have the undergrad basics in something like finance, I can't imagine how much they would struggle in a grad course.

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I'm not sure where you're getting 18cr, but TESU requires 39cr for their MBA - so that would be $6540 for the 12cr with undergrad pricing and then $18225 for the 27cr of graduate pricing.  Totals $24,765.

You only save $130/cr for those 12cr, for a total savings of $1560.

$18225 for the 27 grad credits? YIKES! You can spend far less at Amberton or WGU.