Best path for interior design (NCIDQ exam) for bachelors in another field?

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Academy of Art is about $84k for the full masters program, not much cheaper per credit for the bachelor's (assuming no gen-ed would be required). SCAD is around the same price, and also isn't fully online. NYSID is close to the same price tag for just an AAS Boston Architectural College is a disgusting $115k. Fairfield is "only" $61k. I think Ball State is maybe $50k ish, which almost starts to seem like a bargain, but again they aren't fully online for their "first professional" track. For the Florida State -Jacksonville Associate degree it is about $24k if I assume gened can be transferred, which starts to approach reasonable for this career field. Similarly, the tuition per credit for Ohio looks reasonable, but it is 81 semester hours of in major courses - quite a steep time commitment, total comes out to around $26k which is toward the upper limit of what I think is worth pursuing. Looks like the UCLA extension program is 82 quarter hours? Reasonable cost, but why stop 8 hours shy of the requirement? When stacked with the Cal Poly masters it no longer becomes a cheap option (although maybe $46k is cheap in this field)

I appreciate you digging these up. From what I gather - these degrees really aren't very hackable, and there is no real inexpensive route (nowhere close to what we're used to on this forum with $5-10k degrees)?