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Old 04-21-2008, 10:51 AM
bmills072200 bmills072200 is offline
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Default What would you do???

Okay, so I am getting down to the end of the road for my business degree from Excelsior.

Here is what I have left to take in the order that I intend to take them:

Finance - DSST
Money and Banking - DSST
Management Information Systems - DSST
Ethics - ECE
Organizational Behavior - ECE
Maybe one other elective - WHATEVER...

I also need to take 3 actual classes:

Business Policy - must take at EC
Managerial Accounting
Operations Management
Plus the Information literacy requirement which I have no idea how much that will cost

So you are probably saying, SO WHAT...

Here's the deal...I have a $5000 tuition reimbursement plan from my employer, Wachovia, for every calendar year. I have already spent $1300 of it from a class that I took at Strayer at the begginning of the year (that was before I saw the light and learned about testing).
That leaves me with $3700. The catch to this whole thing is that I am currently petitioning my employer to also reimburse me for for exams that I have received credit for. There is a good chance that this may happen, but I do not know for sure yet (cross your fingers for that one).

If they do pay me for all of the exams that I have takens and the 5-6 more that I will be taking, that will add up to right around $1700. That would bring my total spent up to $3000 leaving $2000 for the 3 classes that I need to take.

I know that the Business Policy class through EC is going to be around $1000 with books, so that brings me to $1000 for 2 classes, Operations Management and Managerial Accounting. If I take them both at EC, I will be over the amount...at the same time I do not want to take them from a random college that will make me jump through a bunch of hoops...

What do you guys think??? any suggestions???

It would be really cool to get my BS degree in less than a year and not have to pay a dime other than my entrance and graduation fees...

thanks in advance
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Excelsior BS - General Business - 2008
Enrolled at Jacksonville State University - MBA - complete in 2010 (60% complete)

121 credits...ALL DONE BABY!!!

54 credits transfered in from prior college
54 credits by examination
6 credits from community college
3 credits from CSU-Pueblo (Operations Management)
4 credits for Information Literacy and Business Strategy from Excelsior

CLEP:
Principles of Macroeconomics (64)
Principles of Microeconomics (61)
Principles of Marketing (66)
Principles of Management (72)
Info Systems and Comp Applications (57)
Introductory Business Law (65)
Social Sciences & History (61)
DSST:
Principles of Supervision (58)
Principles of Statistics (67)
Introduction to Computing (60)
Principles of Financial Accounting (56)
Principles of Finance (55)
Money and Banking (52)
Ethics in America (66)
Management Information Systems (58)
ECE:
Ethics: Theory and Practice (B)
Organizational Behavior (C)

GMAT: 600
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