08-12-2014, 02:33 PM
EI2HCB Wrote:Residency at Excelsior is at 12 credits with no per year fees following. Plus if you join the school through POAG your price per credit drops and the enrollment fee is not that great. While Sanantone is correct there is no credit tuition plan through testing out, 12 credits including your capstone isn't a great deal of money plus it contributes to your GPA if you did need one. It means 5400 for your gpa and residency. there are less expensive ways for sure which is why I'm pushing the rest of my business degree in the CLEP direction.
I think of it this way. That $5400 adds a lot to the total cost of the degree and doesn't give you much in return. You only get 12 credits for that when you could earn 60 credits at a community college for that cost. Just to simplify things, let's just say that the person will complete the rest of the credits through CLEP/DSST at $100 a pop. You would have to take 36 tests for the 108 credits spending $3,600. $3,600 + $5,400 = $9,000. Let's do the same for TESC. You would take 8 TECEPs for 24 credits totaling $888. You would have 96 credits left to complete through CLEP/DSST at $100 a pop, so that is 32 tests at $3,200. $3,200 + $888 = $4,088. That is a $4,912 difference between Excelsior and TESC. If a person really wants a GPA at TESC, then he or she can just take a course at TESC and still save thousands of dollars over Excelsior's Course Option tuition plan.
Graduate of Not VUL or ENEB
MS, MSS and Graduate Cert
AAS, AS, BA, and BS
CLEP
Intro Psych 70, US His I 64, Intro Soc 63, Intro Edu Psych 70, A&I Lit 64, Bio 68, Prin Man 69, Prin Mar 68
DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
Uexcel
A&P
Davar
Macro, Intro to Fin, Man Acc
MS, MSS and Graduate Cert
AAS, AS, BA, and BS
CLEP
Intro Psych 70, US His I 64, Intro Soc 63, Intro Edu Psych 70, A&I Lit 64, Bio 68, Prin Man 69, Prin Mar 68
DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
Uexcel
A&P
Davar
Macro, Intro to Fin, Man Acc