Someone else had an existing thread on the South College DBA program meant to provide feedback and tracking on their progress. I thought this was a good idea and wanted to create my own sort of tracker along with basic thoughts as I move through the program. There is almost no information out there regarding acceleration in this CBE program, so hopefully this can help answer some questions to potential students in the future. This will not be an all encompassing tracker covering all aspects of the program, but instead more of a general feel and informational.

I enrolled and started classes on 3/1/25 and initial thoughts on the program up to now is that it is well thought out and paper intensive. I graduated from WGU with both a Bachelor’s and Master's degree and accelerated very quickly for both, finishing my Bachelor’s in about 1 month and my Master's in 7 days, so I know I have the capabilities to accelerate in any program that allows it. I can already tell that South's DBA is much more intensive in both quantity and quality of papers. At WGU, following the rubric was the only requirement; if it asked for 3 sources and 10 paragraphs for a paper that was all I completed and it was graded and passed. I find that South expects more from students in their papers, which is welcome in a doctoral level course. For example, nearly all of the papers I have written are open ended, there are no hard requirements as to maximum pages or sources. They expect the student to do their own research and put together a well written research paper. There is much more freedom to write papers based on your own subject while using the topic of the assignment. I find this to be beneficial to keep writing fresh, but others may feel differently.

Long story short, this is much more difficult than WGU but it is absolutely able to be accelerated. I work on schoolwork every day, typically at night once I am back from my job and the hours are significantly more than I had to put in at WGU. At my current pace I hope to be done with all courses besides the dissertation or capstone in the next 2 months or sooner. It all depends on how fast assignments continue to be graded.

3/1: Classes start (I took the day off since it was a Saturday, so no work done).

3/2: Started working on the program. Completed the majority of DBA 6505. Waited on some grading.

3/3: Completed DBA 6505 pending final grades. Started DBA 6506.

3/4: Completed majority of DBA 6506. Waiting on grading while I continued working.

3/5: Completed DBA 6506 pending final grading.

3/6: All grades in, passed DBA 6506. Waited a few hours for course to disappear from my portal and then a new one appeared around 6pm local time. Looked at the course but didn't work on it that night.

3/7 to 3/10: Worked on and off on DBA 6525 and as of today have completed all work. Waiting on grading but I'm graded up to Module 4 out of 5 Modules. Still need to submit final papers once grading is complete and then wait a day or two for that to be graded.

3/11: Some papers were graded on DBA 6525 and I was able to submit the classes final paper. Waiting on grading.

3/12: DBA 6525 passed in the afternoon once final paper was graded. After about 3 hours the course was removed from my portal and replaced with DBA 6635. I started working on the course that night and completed all of Modules 1 and 2 out of 6 total Modules.

3/13-3/14: Continuing to work on DBA 6635. By the end of the night on 3/14 all assignments were complete aside from a single locked assignment I cannot see or work on until the rest are graded.

3/15: The professor graded a large amount of my assignments in DBA 6635 and all that is left for grading is Module 5. Once that is complete (hopefully they are all graded on Monday) I can see the final locked assignment and complete it. I plan to finish that final assignment the same day it unlocks to hopefully get my next class loaded on Monday or Tuesday.

3/16: Nothing new graded yet. I expect the remainder of grades to come back tomorrow. Once this class is passed, that leaves a total of 7 classes including the final dissertation or capstone.

I found another way to possibly earn some cheap credits. TeamTreehouse has a three classes listed as being NCCRS and/or ACE approved. The classes are "Introduction to HTML and CSS", "Introduction to JavaScript", and "Programming in Python". It seems pretty easy.  You take the course, pass the final exam and project assignment. Then you pay $35 to access your college credit transcript via Credly, and then send them off to the school. The $35 would be on top of your TeamTreehouse subscription. I didn't see any mention that you had to be on a specific plan so I'm assuming the $25/month one would work.

They've teamed up with University Pathways International (https://www.upistudy.com/). I did a quick search on UPI. TESU, WGU, and PUG are all listed. I didn't see Charter Oak or UMPI. I didn't find any mention of UPI on WGU's website but I didn't dive in too deep.

UPI also has a subscription for the United States (or a one time payment is available + available to international students) for a variety of classes.

I don't know anything about UPI or how the credits would transfer over (if they even do!) but I happened to stumble upon it when doing research and thought I'd pass it along. I thought someone might like to investigate further and/or test it out. I tried searching the forum for any mention of either and nothing recently for Treehouse (and it was about bootcamps, not college credit) so I apologize if this is common knowledge.

Just found out today that I needed 60 graded credits BEFORE my FIRST bachelor's degree is conferred. I have 31 credits (1 ASU + 30 UMPI) with a GPA of 4.0 before conferring BLS with Minor in Psychology. 

Does it make any difference for the application now if I don't have a cGPA with LSAC? Does it make any sense to get additional undergraduate credits since it still won't help with getting a cGPA with LSAC?

Trying to understand if I need to forget about my dream of getting into ABA T14 or at least T50 law school, or instead, focus on LSAT and get a high score with my GPA 4.0 and still apply?

Appreciate any input.

Hello everyone,
I am planning to apply to TESU and would like to know if there are any promo codes or ways to obtain an application fee waiver. If anyone has received a free application fee before, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share your experience.
Thank you! ?

As I start to look at potential graduate school options... I have a question for everyone here.

If i wanted to become a Professor at a college for business courses, can the cheaper options for MBAs floated in this forum qualifies me to do so? (ENEB, Elmwood, etc)

Has anyone achieved that?

Is TESU providing BS General Management? or BSBA General Management?

Or is it the same?

If it changed, when did it happened?

Hello! I hope you all are well today. I am considering going to Thomas Edison University online. I am a NJ resident, and I am also using Amazon career choice voucher, is anyone else using it too? My job gives me $5250 a year, no lifetime maximum. Will this cover me for the year at TESU with no credit transfers? How many terms do you have to do? Only looking to do 6 credits a term, 2 classes is well enough while working full time at the warehouse lol. I qualified for the Pell grant at $4601 but I don’t think I can do 12 credits(considered full time at TESU iirc), so would I be getting the less than 4601? Just trying to not go into college debt, I declined the loans. Looking to go into HR management bachelors degree by the way. Thanks!

I am 12 credits away from finishing the TESU BACS, but UoPeople has just received RA accreditation, and it's cheaper. I know TESU can be done faster, but speed doesn't matter to me. However, the reputation of UoPeople doesn't seem very good, and I also don't like its name, it sounds communist and not a serious university. Any advice?

Hi all, I need help! I recently graduated from TESU with my bachelors in History. I took the social studies praxis and passed, and was planning on becoming a history teacher. THEN, a job in the music department opened up. I started out as a Music Ed major when I first began my undergrad, and would much prefer to teach music. I took the Music praxis and passed. I have 48 credits in music. My problem is, the CE requirements in NJ state that at least 12 credits must be upper level (junior, senior, or graduate) and I only have 5 credits at the 300 level or higher. So my question is, what is the quickest and cheapest way that I can get the remaining 7 upper level music credits needed for the CE so I can land this job before September? Currently my plan is to complete prior learning assessment portfolio's through TESU, but I am wondering if anyone knows of any quicker or cheaper ways I can go about this. Thank you in advance for any and all insight!

Haven't seen much discussion on how to actually do this, and the academic department at ENEB is taking long.

I didn't anticipate the increased workload this year and ended up with too many ENEB programs than I can finish.
Is there a way to resell one of the programs I'm enrolled in? As in, can I transfer one master's to someone else while keeping the rest?

Would love to hear from someone who's actually managed to do so.
What was the process like? How much did it cost?