Good Path for Computer Science: Social Work to Tech

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I'm also a social worker (MSW, LCSW) and I've been working towards a CS degree at TESU....

This is encouraging. Brittany enjoyed learning that someone else has gone down a similar path that she is considering. 

We have applied to TESU (transcripts waiting) and have stalled on WGU due to a misunderstanding. Considering that she will need to take one class (the capstone) at TESU making it $7k, 12 months at WGU would be comparable price so both are decent options. However, we are leaning towards TESU due to only taking one traditional class and the ease of understanding the credit transfer.


Brittany really likes the Cousera courses because she has had a subscription with them before. The 'IBM Full Stack Professional' cert is the one she has her eye on, particularly for the UL credit. Will she earn any other 'AOS LL elective' credit from that Coursera course? She likes the Coursera option because it gives her an opportunity to get ACE credit for a full-stack project she wanted to work on anyways.

I really enjoyed studying for the Microsoft AI-900 cert and have heard that you can get TESU BACS credit for it. Can anyone confirm this? Would be great for her to earn credit, even LL, and to have a cert on her resume. Also, I heard students can get a free or reduced priced voucher for the Azure Fundamental certs, has anyone heard about this?

As her CC classes wind down, she will be focusing on knocking out the two Sophia classes first. Will keep this thread updated. Thank you all for your input and encouragement.

After my TESU transcript evaluation was done I ended up making a spreadsheet of what I had left and made a plan with the Wiki of what classes I would take. Most of my credits have been completed at Study.com (Intro to Programming, Discrete Math, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Database Management, Data Structures, MIS, and Systems Analysis and Design) because Coursera doesn't have a lot of the classes needed. 

That left me with 2 lower levels electives, 1 upper level elective, calculus, and the capstone. I'm doing my 3 electives left through Coursera (because I think they are better for learning and offer me the data-related courses) and I used the link someone posted above to choose what would transfer in. I plan to do calculus at Sophia.

So my cost break down will end up being about $3222 for courses (including the capstone at TESU), $3354 for the TESU residency waiver fee, and $298 graduation fee. There's probably a way to do it cheaper and she probably won't have as many classes to complete since she is transferring some in from a CC.