I would recommend that you register at the Excelsior site (since that is one of the two you are considering). They have several pdf guidebooks that explain how many credits are needed in various areas for various degrees.

I believe the answer to your upper-level credits question is 30 for the Excelsior liberal arts degrees. It's less for the business degrees. If you're going to take CLEP Human Growth and Development--you'll find plenty of posts here suggesting that you follow immediately with CLEP Psychology, Educational Psychology and Sociology--assuming you need them. If you haven't already, you should sign up for InstantCert. You could probably knock off those three exams in one session.

I, too, decided to stop daydreaming around the 20 year mark--as have others on this site. Interesting...

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Michael

CLEP - ISCA 68, Sociology 72, Psych 73, A&I Lit 61, HG&D 65, Ed Psych 70, Marketing 72, Management 69, Macroeconomics 63, Microeconomics 67
DSST - Intro to Comp 66, MIS 61, Supervision 67, Counseling 58 - no study!, Personal Finance 67, Statistics 60, Criminal Justice 57, Ethics 58, Finance 63 (All A's at EC)
COC - 2007 (Community College) - Acctg I&II 10c, Work/Study 4c, Intro to Research (Info Lit req) 1c, Society and Rock & Roll 3c, Fund of Music 3c, Guitar I & II 4c, Bass Guitar I 2c
ECE - Ethics (A), HRM (B), Organizational Behavior (B) | CSU - Operations Mgmt. (A) | TECEP - Business Policy 80 (CR)

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