Hello everyone. I recently learned that FEMA offers free independent study courses that can be turned into college credit. But what I want to know is will those credits translate into college credit for people with Business Majors. I'd just hate to take all the FEMA classes, pay over $200 bucks to "Credit Bank" just to find out that I can't use any of them because they don't correspond with my Course requirements. Just trying to save time and money.

If anyone can help me on this issue it will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Marshall

No more Credit Bank

No more TESC credit bank transferable to EC; the credit bank is still alive.

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Gotcha, not transferable to EC or COSC. I wonder what college it is transferrable to.

Let me clarify for everyone,

The CREDIT BANK from TESC is still transferrable, just not the FEMA credits that were stored there. Here is why. When TESC took the credits in direct from FEMA all they did was place them on the transcript from the official FEMA transxcript. TESC has never evaluated the FEMA classes for college credit the way most colleges (including TESC) require. They just banked them on the transcript. Excelsior got wise to it and now requires that they be officially evaluated before awarding credit. (which is how it shoud be). Frederick Community college and many other do this. If they are 'officially evaluated' and given real college credit then EC will likely accept them.

The only change is that the loophole (mistake) is now closed.

You can continue to use (and I highly recommend) the TESC credit bank. It is a great way to put everything together on one transcript. You can still add classes to it and transfer.

If anyone has anything different please correct me but I believe I am right-on in this regard.

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A.S. Liberal Arts- Excelsior College

B.S. Criminal Justice- Excelsior College

M.S.- To be announced

CLEP and DANTES
English Comp (62)
College Spanish (76)
Astronomy (56)
Rise and Fall of Soviet Union (50)
Principles of Supervision (60)
Introduction to Law Enforcement (67)
Criminal Justice (59)
Intro to Business (63)
Intro to Sociology (60)

FEMA: 13 units
Penn Foster: Info Literacy, Criminology

Number of classes remaining:
0

Just found this on another post.

Looks like Good info.

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ImustStudy
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A.S. Liberal Arts- Excelsior College

B.S. Criminal Justice- Excelsior College

M.S.- To be announced

CLEP and DANTES
English Comp (62)
College Spanish (76)
Astronomy (56)
Rise and Fall of Soviet Union (50)
Principles of Supervision (60)
Introduction to Law Enforcement (67)
Criminal Justice (59)
Intro to Business (63)
Intro to Sociology (60)

FEMA: 13 units
Penn Foster: Info Literacy, Criminology

Number of classes remaining:
0

I was under the impression that Credit Banks were more for Professional Use than Academic Use (ie transferring to colleges).

Are there more colleges other than Excelsior and TESC that utilize Credit Banks?

I know that Excelsior and TESC examine transfer credits differently (ie TESC Does not accept CompTIA certifications for Transfer, yet Excelsior does - some UL classes as well) so I wonder if utilizing the Credit Bank from both would allow the same courses taken to fill different course credits and therefore adding credits to your transcripts simply by overlapping and having extra.

Funny you posted this, I just got off the phone with FEMA ISP and they said they only 2 colleges they know that will "Credit Bank" ISP Courses are FCC and TESC. Other than that, it looks like colleges require you to take classes on campus.

I was thinking about rounding up every email address from the "College List" and sending out 1 email asking about the process, but I'm busy taking FEMA courses