Hello, everyone. I've looked through the wikis here on different schools and existing degree plans, but I was also wondering if anyone could give some degree planning advice based on my individual circumstances. If I do decide to move forward with a new degree, I don't know what school suits me best. I attend WGU right now and am considering withdrawing from my current program for several reasons, one of which is I'm not enjoying it at all. Anyway, thank you in advance for any insights. 

Your Location:  Florida
Your Age:  43
Desired Degree:  Bachelor’s in Accounting
Current Regional Accredited Credits:  162
Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits:  6
Any certifications or military experience:  Teaching certificate
Budget: <$10,000 (loans)
Commitments: FT remote job, newly single mom of two teenagers, one with chronic medical condition and who cannot drive as a result.
Dedicated time to study:  1-2 hours on weekdays, 10-12 hours on weekends
Timeline:  12-18 months (but faster is better)
Tuition assistance/reimbursement:  None. I’d be taking out Federal student loans.
 
Undergraduate, Bachelor of Arts in English, Total Credits: 113 (+transferred 7 cr. in)
English:
ENG 120 – Introduction to Literature, 3 cr., B+
ENG 111 – English Communications I, 3 cr., A-
ENG 112 – English Communications II, 3 cr., A-
ENG 140 – Introduction to Mass Communications, 3 cr., A-
ENG 312 – Writing for Radio and TV, 3 cr., A-
ENG 213 – Journalism, 3 cr., A-
ENG 227 – Survey of World Literature I, 3 cr., A-
ENG 390 – Travel Writing, 3 cr., A-
ENG 009 – Portfolio, 3 cr., S
ENG 222 – Survey of American Literature II, 3 cr., A
ENG 314 – Public Relations, 3 cr., A-
ENG 214 – Creative Writing: Poetry, 3 cr., A
ENG 321 – History and Grammar of the English Language, 3 cr., A-
ENG 342 – Shakespeare II, 3 cr., B+
ENG 390 – Vanishing West, 3 cr., A-
ENG 400 – Internship, 8 cr., Pass
ENG 500 – Independent Study, 3 cr., A
 
Math:
MAS 170 – Elementary Statistics, 3 cr., A
MAS 100 – Concepts of Mathematics, 3 cr., A
 
Science:
BIO 103 – Environmental Science, 4 cr., A-
PSY 100 – Psychology: Individual & Society, 3 cr., B
 
Business:
BUS 340 – Principles of Marketing, 3 cr., B+
 
Other Gen Eds and Electives:
MSC 100 – Introduction to Music, 3 cr., B+
ART 120 – Introduction to Art Therapy, 3 cr., A
REL 120 – Religion in America, 3 cr., B
REL 160 – Religion and Ethics, 3 cr., B+
PHL 110 – Introduction to Philosophy, 3 cr., A-
AMS 111 – Introduction to American Studies, 3 cr., A-
AMS 211 – American Folklore, 3 cr., A
SOC 110 – Introduction to Sociology, 3 cr., B+
SOC 210 – Social Problems, 3 cr., A
SOC 252 – Human Behavior in Social Environments, 3 cr., A
PSC 190 – Modern Latin America, 3 cr., B
PSC 330 – State and Local Government, 3 cr., A
DSP 370 – Paranormal Phenomena, 3 cr., B+
+ Some fitness course for 1 cr., S
+ Transferred in from Community College  - 7 Credits (see below)
 
Community College, Visiting Student, Xfer to Undergraduate, Total Credits: 7
HPE 121 – Physical Education, 1 cr., A
SPA 101 – Elementary Spanish I, 3 cr., B+
SPA 102 – Elementary Spanish II, 3 cr., A
 
Penn State, Master of Public Admin., Total Credits: 6
PADM 500 – Public Organization and Management, 3 cr., A-
PADM 510 – Organizational Behavior, 3 cr., A
Dropped for medical reasons.
 
Community College, Teacher Certification, Total Credits: 21
All seven were education-related courses, GPA 4.0.
 
WGU, Master of Education in Ed Tech and Instructional Design, Total Credits:  15
All Learning Experience Design courses.
Currently Enrolled and up against the end of my first term. I don’t care for the curriculum (maybe subject matter?) at all. Plus, life circumstances have changed since I started. I need a stable, decent-paying career. 

Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits:
Sophia:  6
Introduction to IT, 96%
Project Management, 93%
 
Learning Style:  I am a good writer, but I’d rather answer test questions or submit a project that shows I know what I’m supposed to know rather than explain it across 20 pages with multiple sources. I’m very visual. I’m also good test taker.

Hello,

Right now I have my sights set on getting a Bachelor of Liberal Studies – Management Minor degree from UMPI. I plan to get credits from Sophia and transfer them in. However, I have a question regarding general electives.

Around 15-20 years ago, I took a BUNCH of classes at my local community college. After switching degrees several times, I settled on one and I got an associates degree in a graphic design related field. With this, can I safely assume that these classes would transfer into UMPI and at least fill out all of my general elective requirements since I've completed a decent number of credits? Do credits earned a LONG time ago like this normally get accepted without any issue or should I be taking more Sophia courses to be safe?

One reason why I'm unsure about this is because I don't know how to find out for sure. Everything recommends not applying until you have everything all ready since it takes an exception process to get additional credits transferred in once you've been accepted.

Any help is appreciated and thank you for your time.

Hi all, 

Longtime lurker, first time poster. 

I'm looking for a Doctorate program that will allow me to transfer courses from my completed Ed.S. Educational Leadership, allowing for a shorter EdD/PhD program. I see that Indiana Wesleyan has an Ed.D. completion program 10 courses - 30 credits - 20 months program. https://www.indwes.edu/program/doctor-of-education

Does anyone have any feedback about the program? (I did search, and didn't see anything) 

Any other alternative suggestions? Looking for a capstone/dissertation-in-practice in lieu of the traditional dissertation experience. 

Thanks in advance,
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Hey Gang I joined in March I think and y'all have been a tremendous help so thanks

Currently at UMPI will finish in December with a BA in Political Science and minors in International Studies, Business Management, Management Information Systems.

First question of input, I want an MBA prefer a CBE program. Really liked the UMPI structure since I've been able to really move rapidly. However I feel like I could get UMPI's MAOL considerably faster. What are realistic time frames, estimated of course? To give an idea of my pace I've done 27 hours my first 8 weeks at UMPI, that's all upperclass courses. I'm not opposed to getting both MAOL and MBA if I were to get the MAOL first. Doubtful I would go back should I get the MBA first as I anticipate it having the greater ROI.

Second Lean Six Sigma, quite simply put, where, how, who, when etc?

Hello guys grateful for all the info on this forum.

I'd like to share my experience transfering Foreign credits from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences into TESU. First of all, (especially europeans) I highly recommend getting as many credits from a Finnish university as possible. The credits are fast to get and all you have to do after is download the transcript from the student portal and send it to ACEI, who will evaluate and send your credits directly to TESU. You can expect a Finnish credit to be equivalent to half a US credit. I'm happy to help anyone out with more details so please ask.

I'd also like to mention that I transfered in Linear Algebra from Coopersmith into BACS at TESU and it came in as UL MAT-3210 succesfully. On the wiki there is a doubt as to whether or not this course is still accepted.

Hi guys! I used an outdated spreadsheet made by someone, which said study.com's American Government course can fulfill the Civic Engagement and Awareness requirement for my degree. Turns out, the course was transferred in as a free elective, and in fact, as of September 1st, 2020, TESU no longer accepts it for the Civic Engagement and Awareness requirement.

What is my best option at this point? Honestly I don't want to take another course just for this requirement, and people say the CLEP is difficult and not worth it. There isn't a TECEP for this either...No options are good. But maybe I haven't thought of an options some of y'all might suggest.

I understand I have to just bite the bullet and do something I don't want to. In your opinion, what's the best course of action here?

Thank you!

Right now until the end of October UoPeople is offering free transfer credit evaluations up $340 or 20 classes. I had some problems with the advisor earlier but decided to go forward with them. I decided to get a second bachelor's degree in Health Sciences it will help me with some certifications I am working on. I am also starting towards completing my dissertation in Jan 2025 and decided to go to HAU's MBA progra  one class at time in the Spring of next year. Needless to say my plate is full. The transfer credits seem like a good deal.

I applied for the BOG AAS program at Pierpont back in May of this year, and initially, I sent transcripts from my files which were ultimately rejected. 

I then went to my community college and had them send my official transcript to Pierpont. I never heard back from them or received my credits, so I emailed them about this in August. 

They replied and said that my community college transcript had "no work with a letter grade to be recorded on it." 

I am not sure how to get these credits verified at this point and I don't want to just throw away two years of education credits.

So our son failed the CLEP College Composition Modular with a score of 45   He is 14 years old, so some of it is probably simply due to his young age and inexperience (with grammar AND life).

He had passed the DSST Advanced English Composition a month prior, and found the latter easier.

He has decided to try the Sophia Learning English Composition 1, and would like to pre-write all of the essays before we restart our subscription. The syllabus can be downloaded without an active subscription, but it does not go into full detail about the Touchstone assignments.

Is there anyone with a current subscription who could copy and paste the essay assignments and send them to me or post them here? That would be super helpful.

Posting this here because no one else in my life will understand how thrilled how I was to ace this test. Even my wife just shrugged and said cool lol.
To preface, I’m previously Network+ and CCNA certified and use networking frequently in my day job so I do consider networking to be a very strong subject for me. However I would not have done nearly as well, maybe even failed, if I had not read the TESU suggested Networking Basics book. There’s just so many outdated terms in there and specific ways of explaining things that I had not encountered in my previous networking studies. Network+/CCNA will give you a great foundation for OSI, IPv4 addressing and subnetting, common port numbers, basic understanding of TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, and similar foundation protocols. They will likely NOT mention Manchester Encoding, Zigbee, distributed queue dual bus, thicknet vs thinnet these and a bunch of other random topics seem to be specific textbook. I suppose they were popular at some point but too out of date to be mentioned in a lot of newer networking materials.

The nerd in me did kind of enjoy reading so much history about how we arrived at our modern standards but practically speaking I think I’m very unlikely to need know many of those terms outside of this TECEP exam.
Still for like $200ish for 3 upper level RA credits it was very worth it for me. If you want to give yourself the best chance of passing definitely go through the recommended book. I felt the test matched to that most closely. I watched all the recommended videos and didn’t find them to be too relevant to the test. Those videos try to dumb down networking too much with analogies to the point where you don’t really get the understanding you need IMO. I did look for some 3G/4G GSM, CDMA, LTE YouTube videos because the recommended video is no longer available. I will say I got a couple questions on this topic so that was worth it. There’s not much on that topic in the book. There’s 3-4 pages in the book describing 802 standards. Definitely take notes on those pages in particular.

Cheers and happy studying