Help Needed: Deciding Between Two Schools with Similar Credit Transfers!

[Ares]

Excelsior's BPS in Technology Management sounds interesting but they require certain courses you cannot transfer in (at least I could not find an equivalent) and must take there:

• TECH 230 Technology and Society
  
• TECH 330 Economic Analysis for Technologies
  
• TECH 340 Intro to Energy Utilization
  
• IT 390 Project Management
  

This is in addition to their mandatory 3 courses (7 credits), meaning you are going to have to take 19 credits there no matter what. That means tuition is going to be almost $10K without fees. You also need 9 UL credits for gen. ed. requirements, 15 UL in the professional component and 6 UL in the electives.

Also the IT Concentration sounds redundant to the degree title so I do not see the point is bothering with it.

My problem with all of this is a "Studies" degree should be the most credit transfer friendly degree and this seems like the exact opposite.

Did your calculation consider the military tuition rate of $250 a credit plus fees at EU? Does UMPI have a military tuition rate as well? After looking at the EU evaluation, it appears they awarded 19 upper-level credits in transfer and completion of military schools. You bring up a good point about a Bachelor of Professional Studies versus a Bachelor of Arts and its utility. I wonder if graduate schools may have issues accepting students with a BPS over a BS or BA? It may not be an issue.

I was not aware Excelsior's military tuition was that cheap and I did mention it is without fees. They did award 19 UL but still require 12 UL for GE (6) and the Professional component (6). My only problem with this BPS is how you cannot easily transfer in 113 credits. I also noticed they would not apply any of their 31 additional military courses to electives which seems like nonsense. These "evals" seem more concerned with forcing people to take more courses at Excelsior than about making every credit count.