AS in Math, opinions please

[SolarKat]

So if you go with your CC, you only need 3 classes and the total cost is $1500-2000? Do that.

For TESU, your finite math and college algebra classes won't count towards the 16 credit AOS requirements. So you'd need 13 credits, provided the statistics counts towards the AOS, which it should. The fastest way, using distance ed and only classes (you can test out of calc 1, if you want, or do Straighterline Calc 1 & 2, but that would be fewer credits so you'd need another class on the back end) would be the following self-paced sequence:

1) LSU Analytic Geometry & Calculus 1 (5 credits, $1208 - includes all fees)
2) UND Calculus 2 (4 credits, $1113.16 - no additional fees)
3) either LSU Elementary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra (4 credits, $973 - includes all fees)
or UND Calculus 3 (4 credits, $1113.16 - no additional fees)

(LSU doesn't have Calc 2 available at the moment.)

I suggest these (if you want the TESU ASNSM - Mathematics) because they are entirely self-paced...you can finish each in as little as 3 months, and you can overlap your registrations if you really need to haul through them. However, it would cost more than what you'd pay at your CC, by the sound of it.

If you take TESU classes, you'll pay about $1500-2000 each (unless you have the Study.com partnership, in which case it's about $1K-1,400 I think?), and you'll be limited to the 12-week options...Calc 1 (4cr) and Calc 2 (4cr) are available as Guided Study so you could work ahead and overlap terms. The other classes are all 3 credit with only live options so full 12 week discussion board glory...and you'd need two of them to get over the 13 remaining credits (I assume your stats will be accepted for 3 credits, and your college algebra will cover the "math" requirement in the gen-ed....not sure if finite will cover quant lit...anyone?).

APU/AMU is also cheaper than TESU, at $270/credit, but you'd be bound to 8 or 15 week terms. SNHU is also cheaper than TESU ($360?/credit) and lists LA and DE as upper level, though it's unclear what TESU would recognize them as.

The CCs would be the cheapest way to get the credits, I'd think...provided they offer a math sequence. Someone who knows the NMJC-etc market could tell you more about that.