Final UoPeople / University of the People Degree Plan

[TaraD2020]

After making MANY degree plans, and considering several different online schools, I officially went with University of the People / UoPeople!  What worked for me, may not work for others, but below is the degree plan I drew up.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

A few comments.  I am NOT in a rush to complete a BA, I am on a VERY limited budget, and wanted to transfer max credits.  I will be done December 2024.  UoPeople has a partnership with Sophia, and transfer fees are waived for up to 20 courses!

My final total for a Bachelors in Business Administration is:

Application Fee - $60.00
Transfer per course $17 x10 - $170.00
Course Assessment Fees $140 x10 - $1,400.00 (Paid when courses are completed, not up front)
BA Total @ UoPeople - $1,630.00

If you add in my 2 months of Sophia, the total is: $1,768.20

As a note, I have been in business and marketing for 26 years, so my resume is led off of experience, not degree.  Basically, I wanted to fulfill the check box, and UoPeople did that for me.  Yes, they are NA accredited vs RA accredited at the moment, BUT are in the process of RA.  With that said, I have worked in recruiting, and I had NEVER seen accreditation be questioned for a regular business job.  Background checks just confirm a potential employee did in fact receive the degree.  And, I have already researched that if I chose to get my Masters, WGU accepts UoPeople BA, under NA accreditation.  If you want UoPeople BA to eventually do Masters and then Doctorate, you have a bit more work to do researching your options, I cannot provide that information. 

Hope this helps someone.

[LevelUP]

Access denied for Google Sheets.

UMPI is still cheaper at $1500 if you can finish in one term.

Going to UOP is much like SNHU traditional online college with deadlines. It will take about 10 months to complete a degree there with max transfer.

[ivanswk78]

think your transfers class is miscalculated,
need to transfer 30 class then balance 10 class
my sample

[Vle045]

I think the OP intentionally put 10. As she said, 20 are transferred for free…

[bjcheung77]

Depending on your commitments, time management, I will pretty much repeat this from LevelUP: UMPI is still cheaper at $1500 if you can finish in one term.

Going to UOP is much like SNHU traditional online college with deadlines. It will take about 10 months to complete a degree there with max transfer.

Side Note: Good luck, have fun, it won't really matter which way you go, NA/RA as long as you're able to get a degree of your choice an it gets to your goal.  You may want to read up on posts on here or reviews on U of People as there have been some pushback and slack going their route.  

BTW, I just got a PM the other day to write a Public Service Announcement informing the board and the sister board, reasons not to enroll and I'll compare that with other reasons to enroll.  This person ultimately paid the admissions fee and was unable to get a refund, they felt cheated.

[ss20ts]

How do you feel about peer grading from students whose first language isn't English? I ask because peer grading is part of U of the P. Personally, I am not a fan. I've seen many people have problems with it. Even just working on a team project I see the same problems and purposely avoid classes with team projects.

[TINASAM]

Depending on your commitments, time management, I will pretty much repeat this from LevelUP: UMPI is still cheaper at $1500 if you can finish in one term.

Going to UOP is much like SNHU traditional online college with deadlines. It will take about 10 months to complete a degree there with max transfer.

Side Note: Good luck, have fun, it won't really matter which way you go, NA/RA as long as you're able to get a degree of your choice an it gets to your goal.  You may want to read up on posts on here or reviews on U of People as there have been some pushback and slack going their route.  

BTW, I just got a PM the other day to write a Public Service Announcement informing the board and the sister board, reasons not to enroll and I'll compare that with other reasons to enroll.  This person ultimately paid the admissions fee and was unable to get a refund, they felt cheated.

That person should realize that the majority of application fees are nonrefundable in higher education.