I'm officially confused. You talk about needing college credits for your raise, but the page you linked to is all about continuing education hours, which is something entirely different. Now it's possible that academic credits could count as continuing education, but the page you linked to doesn't mention that as a possibility.
I'm thinking that page you linked doesn't actually have anything to do with the academic credits you need. The main question is whether your employer will accept the ACE (or sophia) credits and what hoops you might have to jump through to get them to do so.
It's easy enough to get Sophia credits on a college transcript, if that's sufficient. I don't see that you'd have to finish a degree if you didn't want to.
The easiest (cheapest) method I'm aware of is enrolling at TESU. It used to just take a $50 enrollment fee, but now I understand they require that you finish some credits with them before they'll issue a transcript with your transferred courses on it, but if they'll accept a TECEP to achieve that, it would still be cheap. You can also just pay $419 for the individual learning account and not worry about having to actually enroll in a degree program or earn extra credits.
I'm thinking that page you linked doesn't actually have anything to do with the academic credits you need. The main question is whether your employer will accept the ACE (or sophia) credits and what hoops you might have to jump through to get them to do so.
It's easy enough to get Sophia credits on a college transcript, if that's sufficient. I don't see that you'd have to finish a degree if you didn't want to.
The easiest (cheapest) method I'm aware of is enrolling at TESU. It used to just take a $50 enrollment fee, but now I understand they require that you finish some credits with them before they'll issue a transcript with your transferred courses on it, but if they'll accept a TECEP to achieve that, it would still be cheap. You can also just pay $419 for the individual learning account and not worry about having to actually enroll in a degree program or earn extra credits.
NanoDegree: Intro to Self-Driving Cars (2019)
Coursera: Stanford Machine Learning (2019)
TESU: BA in Comp Sci (2016)
TECEP:Env Ethics (2015); TESU PLA:Software Eng, Computer Arch, C++, Advanced C++, Data Struct (2015); TESU Courses:Capstone, Database Mngmnt Sys, Op Sys, Artificial Intel, Discrete Math, Intro to Portfolio Dev, Intro PLA (2014-16); DSST:Anthro, Pers Fin, Astronomy (2014); CLEP:Intro to Soc (2014); Saylor.org:Intro to Computers (2014); CC: 69 units (1980-88)
PLA Tips Thread - TESU: What is in a Portfolio?
Coursera: Stanford Machine Learning (2019)
TESU: BA in Comp Sci (2016)
TECEP:Env Ethics (2015); TESU PLA:Software Eng, Computer Arch, C++, Advanced C++, Data Struct (2015); TESU Courses:Capstone, Database Mngmnt Sys, Op Sys, Artificial Intel, Discrete Math, Intro to Portfolio Dev, Intro PLA (2014-16); DSST:Anthro, Pers Fin, Astronomy (2014); CLEP:Intro to Soc (2014); Saylor.org:Intro to Computers (2014); CC: 69 units (1980-88)
PLA Tips Thread - TESU: What is in a Portfolio?
![[-]](https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/images/collapse.png)
