Starting school from scratch. 17 years in the construction industry with no degree

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Pell Grants are for undergraduate studies (bachelor's) and cannot be used for graduate studies. You should be able to use one year's worth of Pell Grant to finish at UMPI. Typically, students can finish in 2-4 terms at UMPI, which works out to $3400 to $6800 in total. Some students can finish in 1 term.

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The UMPI Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) with project management and information systems would set you up well and could be done in under a year - you can transfer in 90 credits into the degree plan and do 30 credits at UMPI, mostly in your major:
https://www.umpi.edu/yourpace/academic_p...anagement/

This page has degree plans to peruse for other good options: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:UMPI

WGU is a good option if you prefer exams over writing.

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For the general requirements, you can maximize Sophia - you can either do the monthly membership or buy a 4-month membership for $299 if you think you will need a while: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/UM...ts_Roadmap

You need a total of 40 general requirement (GEC) credits:

• English Composition 1 for requirements 1A and 1D
  
• Workplace Writing II is recommended over English Composition 2. This will cover requirements 1B, 2C, 4B.
  
• Business Communication for requirement 1C
  
• Intro to Ethics for requirements 2A, 2B, 4C, 5D.
  
• Visual Communications for requirements 2D.
  
• Art History II for requirements 2E.
  
• You can take College Algebra or Intro to Stats for requirements 3A and 3B, but you may just want to take MAT 140 at UMPI - required for the business degree.
  
• Human Biology for requirement 3C and Human Biology Lab for 3E - good idea to take them together.
  
• Environmental Science for requirement 3D.
  
• UMPI orientation (a couple of hours on your first day) will take care of requirement 4A.
  
• Introduction to Sociology for requirement 5A.
  
• US History I for requirement 5B.
  
• You can take Spanish I or French I on Sophia for requirement 5C.
  
• US Government for requirement 5E.
  

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For the Business major, the following additional classes can also be done on Sophia:

• Introduction to Business
  
• Financial Accounting
  
• Business Ethics
  
• Microeconomics
  
• Macroeconomics
  
• Project Management
  

On Study.com, you can do the following:

• BUS 220: Managerial Accounting -> Study.com Accounting 301: Applied Managerial Accounting
  
• BUS 244: Management Information Systems -> Study.com Business 303: Management Information Systems
  
• BUS 240: Change Management -> Study.com Business 304: Leading Organizational Change
  
• BUS 415: Operations Management -> Study.com Business 312: Advanced Operations Management
  

You can also complete your free electives on Sophia, which will be any classes that you have not already done for the GEC nor the major.

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If you have a foreign HS diploma, you will need to have it evaluated and sent to UMPI. ACEI is likely the simplest way: https://acei-global.org/

If you don't have a high school diploma or equivalent, your first step will likely be to complete your GED.