Back after a decade and I am lost....Need guidance

[bjcheung77]

UMPI BLS will take the bulk of your credits and place them into the general education and electives, up to 90 credits, the rest will go towards the 'other credits' under the line not used towards this degrees requirements. If you go for TESU, the closes you'll get would be a BALS with the NSM concentration, at the end of the day, you'll get a Liberal Studies degree either institution you go...

[MedicOne]

If you don't mind writing, I think you would be an excellent candidate for earning credits through portfolio evaluation at TESU, assuming there are relevant courses in the portfolio database. I bet there are.

How would I go about doing this?

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UMPI BLS will take the bulk of your credits and place them into the general education and electives, up to 90 credits, the rest will go towards the 'other credits' under the line not used towards this degrees requirements.  If you go for TESU, the closes you'll get would be a BALS with the NSM concentration, at the end of the day, you'll get a Liberal Studies degree either institution you go...

What is going to be the best for me to stack degrees? I would love to have multiple degrees just to have them


Can you point me how to start this process with TESU? I am very overwhelmed with all of this.

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UMPI BLS will take the bulk of your credits and place them into the general education and electives, up to 90 credits, the rest will go towards the 'other credits' under the line not used towards this degrees requirements.  If you go for TESU, the closes you'll get would be a BALS with the NSM concentration, at the end of the day, you'll get a Liberal Studies degree either institution you go...

Also what is the best way to submit off to see what degrees I would be almost a show in for but not actually enroll and be charged while I set up getting multiple associates? 

I found out multiple associate degrees will count towards a bachelors and and multiple associates and a bachelors will be considered maters degree level at my job. Each degree gets you points towards a promotion

[bjcheung77]

What is going to be the best for me to stack degrees? I would love to have multiple degrees just to have them
Can you point me how to start this process with TESU? I am very overwhelmed with all of this.

Also what is the best way to submit off to see what degrees I would be almost a show in for but not actually enroll and be charged while I set up getting multiple associates? 

I found out multiple associate degrees will count towards a bachelors and and multiple associates and a bachelors will be considered maters degree level at my job. Each degree gets you points towards a promotion

Apply to TESU & UMPI, the only costs are application and transcript fees. You don't need to enroll, but you need to acknowledge you'll enroll at UMPI before your evaluation starts. It's a pretty straight forward process for both institutions, here's the breakdown.

TESU: 2 Associates, 2 Bachelors, 4 Certificates - All for the price of 1 Bachelors if you resourcefully plan your credits.
UMPI: AALS, BLS (take 3-4 classes that can go towards the MAOL), MAOL - I would do this for the A/B/M combo.
I mentioned the same thing for UMPI on many posts, here's one on Post #7 and #12: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...-plan-Help

[tesu-acct-student]

If you decide to go with TESU, you'll need to decide on which degree you want. Then once you know which courses you still need, search the PLA database to see if there are courses there that will fulfill your remaining requirements, courses that you already know a lot about: https://www2.tesu.edu/plasearch.php

If you know a lot about the subject of the course, this makes it easy to write the paper you will need to write and submit to demonstrate your knowledge. You can/should also submit copies of related certificates you've earned as evidence that you have the knowledge of the course. The idea is that you demonstrate that you know most of what the course teaches, and you do this by submitting evidence. Your written paper and certificates are your evidence. In principle there could be other ways to submit evidence too. That's it in a nutshell.

I earned PLA credits but it's been a while so I hope I'm remembering everything correctly. It might also be the case that things have changed. So if this sounds interesting/feasible at all, I recommend talking to your academic advisor.

[MedicOne]

What is going to be the best for me to stack degrees? I would love to have multiple degrees just to have them
Can you point me how to start this process with TESU? I am very overwhelmed with all of this.

Also what is the best way to submit off to see what degrees I would be almost a show in for but not actually enroll and be charged while I set up getting multiple associates? 

I found out multiple associate degrees will count towards a bachelors and and multiple associates and a bachelors will be considered maters degree level at my job. Each degree gets you points towards a promotion

Apply to TESU & UMPI, the only costs are application and transcript fees.  You don't need to enroll, but you need to acknowledge you'll enroll at UMPI before your evaluation starts.  It's a pretty straight forward process for both institutions, here's the breakdown.

TESU: 2 Associates, 2 Bachelors, 4 Certificates - All for the price of 1 Bachelors if you resourcefully plan your credits.
UMPI: AALS, BLS (take 3-4 classes that can go towards the MAOL), MAOL - I would do this for the A/B/M combo.
I mentioned the same thing for UMPI on many posts, here's one on Post #7 and #12: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...-plan-Help

How do I go about this? Ultimately how many credits do you believe I would have to do through TESU?


TESU: 2 Associates, 2 Bachelors, 4 Certificates - All for the price of 1 Bachelors if you resourcefully plan your credits.

[tesu-acct-student]

I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but my advice is to focus on finishing one bachelors degree. If you happen to pick up an AA along the way, great, but if not, it's no big deal.

Getting more than one degree at this level is certainly nice, but you only need one. It is the one bachelors degree that will open other doors in the future (raises, promotions, graduate education, etc). Focusing on too many degrees now might create distractions and lead to burnout. I don't recommend it.

[MedicOne]

I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but my advice is to focus on finishing one bachelors degree. If you happen to pick up an AA along the way, great, but if not, it's no big deal.

Getting more than one degree at this level is certainly nice, but you only need one. It is the one bachelors degree that will open other doors in the future (raises, promotions, graduate education, etc). Focusing on too many degrees now might create distractions and lead to burnout. I don't recommend it.

I appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately I need 15 points for a promotion. Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5

[bjcheung77]

I appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately I need 15 points for a promotion. Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5

How about a graduate certificate or a Masters? Would the graduate certificate or a Masters be a 5 or higher? Interesting scoring, more might not be better, I would shoot for something else. If you get all 4, 2, 2, it's 18 points, but it won't be within your 5K budget, unless that's 5K/year tuition assistance or reimbursement you're referring to.

You can do something for cheaper, easier, faster, yet controversial - through foreign credential evaluations, especially since, on the last day of this month plus June 1, they've got a super special going on! Take the triple ENEB Masters programs and have them evaluated as triple Bachelors using ECE, cost is ~$450 for evaluations alone, the triple Masters at ENBE is $225 (gifting, an all time low for 3 Masters).

ENEB pricing post: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid440384
See ENEB in signature for ECE and other evaluations, if your company accepts Validential, it can be 3 Masters.

[Ares]

I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but my advice is to focus on finishing one bachelors degree. If you happen to pick up an AA along the way, great, but if not, it's no big deal.

Getting more than one degree at this level is certainly nice, but you only need one. It is the one bachelors degree that will open other doors in the future (raises, promotions, graduate education, etc). Focusing on too many degrees now might create distractions and lead to burnout. I don't recommend it.

I appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately I need 15 points for a promotion. Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5

I see now why it is good to stock up on associates degrees.

[MedicOne]

I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but my advice is to focus on finishing one bachelors degree. If you happen to pick up an AA along the way, great, but if not, it's no big deal.

Getting more than one degree at this level is certainly nice, but you only need one. It is the one bachelors degree that will open other doors in the future (raises, promotions, graduate education, etc). Focusing on too many degrees now might create distractions and lead to burnout. I don't recommend it.

I appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately I need 15 points for a promotion. Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5

I see now why it is good to stock up on associates degrees.

Yep, so do I

Breakdown at this company is here

Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5, Masters is 8, Doctorate is 15.

I would need 30 points to get to the position I would like to have and have all the experience for. 

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I appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately I need 15 points for a promotion. Each Cert is 1, Associate is 2, Bachelors is 5

How about a graduate certificate or a Masters? Would the graduate certificate or a Masters be a 5 or higher? Interesting scoring, more might not be better, I would shoot for something else.  If you get all 4, 2, 2, it's 18 points, but it won't be within your 5K budget, unless that's 5K/year tuition assistance or reimbursement you're referring to.  

You can do something for cheaper, easier, faster, yet controversial - through foreign credential evaluations, especially since, on the last day of this month plus June 1, they've got a super special going on!  Take the triple ENEB Masters programs and have them evaluated as triple Bachelors using ECE, cost is ~$450 for evaluations alone, the triple Masters at ENBE is $225 (gifting, an all time low for 3 Masters).

ENEB pricing post: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid440384
See ENEB in signature for ECE and other evaluations, if your company accepts Validential, it can be 3 Masters.

We get no reimbursement. I can swing about 5k a year towards education.

How does this work for bringing in these credits to another USA university for credit? Is that even possible?