Are there colleges that award A.A.S degrees soley based soley on transfer credit?

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This sounds totally nuts to me! There appear to be only 15 cr of standard courses here. You usually have to take around 40 credits of core courses for an AS degree. If they are really giving people accredited degrees with these requirements, they won't be doing so for long.

In addition, other schools require sequences of courses, like math101, math102, etc. I have never seen a place that lets you just take one course in each of those areas. All of the courses that you listed are first semester courses.

You can also bet that you will have trouble transferring this degree.

It sounds as though the summer help staff is working in the advisor's office.

You can take Technical Writing instead of English Comp? That is pretty strange as well.

Good Luck, and get it in writing multiple times before you believe it!

That's an AAS for ya.
An AAS or AOS, has totally different requirements. AAS/AOS works if that's your terminal degree. For those wanting a bachelor's at some point in life, you still will need 60 gen eds before that degree can be earned- which means AAS /AOS earners are short 45 and will beg for credit. My husband I have walked this path first hand, and all of my students are in this same situation.

However, the trick with AAS/AOS degrees, is finding ways to use your community college credits in a bachelor's degree. This poster will have roughly 45 credits unused....but if he transfers into TESC's disaster program, this might be a good plan since they will take FEMA. My only caution, is that TESC really will be the only bachelor option, so I'd be sure to grab that degree ASAP while that degree exists....or you'll be starting back over on a bachelor's degree with only 15 credits and some electives. (been there done that!)