Does Charter Oak grant 3rd degrees?

[sanantone]

I know Excelsior will grant a third degree with restrictions, but I couldn't find anything for Charter Oak.

[publius2k4]

They do have a specific set of requirements for a SECOND degree. I'm willing to bet that they would allow a student the same flexibility for a third degree. It might be worth sending an email to the person listed on the the webpage.

Second Baccalaureate Candidates - Charter Oak State College

[sanantone]

Thanks. I'll probably just call or email them. Excelsior's website or catalog or wherever I saw it specifically says they will award third degrees. I know TESC has a limit of two at the associates and bachelors level.

[rebel100]

Second Baccalaureate Candidates - Charter Oak State College specifically for secondsies, but they even mention the process if you had a masters...so I suspect a thirdsy would be evaluated similarly.

Possible...but why? This seems an odd request of you given the concentration vs major issue. What are you thinking of pursuing?

[sanantone]

What do you mean? I don't have a problem with COSC's concentrations. I just don't think an unofficial concentration should be listed as if it were an official major. For example, I don't think a BS in Individualized Studies or BS in General Studies with a concentration in Individualized Studies with an emphasis on health science should be listed as a BS in Health Science.

I can't remember exactly what my plan was because it changes every week, but I think it consisted of getting a second degree at TESC and a third one at EC or COSC.

[4dog]

Has this issue about "Does Charter Oak grant 3rd degrees?" been resolved?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm taking courses at Study.com toward an English degree to humor my parents, as they're not youngsters anymore, so they wanted me to earn a degree, as soon as possible, should something happen to either or both of them. They're paying my online studies and can't afford expensive colleges. I have about 80 credits, which I started taking just after reading on TESU's website that a person should first start taking Study.com courses, then apply to TESU when most or all the necessary courses have been completed (https://www.tesu.edu/studycom/how-to-get-started), followed by transferring in the credits. My plan was, until I saw this thread on the internet, to complete my English degree for my parents' sake as well as that I'm teaching English extra classes a few hours per week to children that battle with it, to have a small income while studying for my degree, and then earn a Computer Science degree, which I'm also good at, since I would only need 24 additional credits to earn a 2nd bachelors degree. If I am forced to look for a full-time job after these 2 bachelor degrees, then at least I have a professional qualification.

However, my end goal is a bachelors degree in chemistry or physics from COSC, which will be my 3rd bachelors degree and that will take very long, I presume, because I used to suck at mathematics, but I am working on becoming better at math because I'm not a complete idiot; only a terrible math foundation was laid in primary school which caused me to get poor marks. All is different now thanks to Khan and Math-U-See, although I had to lay a new foundation myself by going back to grade 3 and working my way up from there. (Still not quite there, but it's coming along quite well--high-school level now). So I need and obviously want these 3 bachelor degrees. How can I make this happen? What advice can you provide or maybe even a possible plan that might speed things up. Any advice is most welcome.

[sanantone]

I never received an answer.

[Ideas]

The reason I'm asking is because I'm taking courses at Study.com toward an English degree to humor my parents, as they're not youngsters anymore, so they wanted me to earn a degree, as soon as possible, should something happen to either or both of them. They're paying my online studies and can't afford expensive colleges. I have about 80 credits, which I started taking just after reading on TESU's website that a person should first start taking Study.com courses, then apply to TESU when most or all the necessary courses have been completed (https://www.tesu.edu/studycom/how-to-get-started), followed by transferring in the credits. My plan was, until I saw this thread on the internet, to complete my English degree for my parents' sake as well as that I'm teaching English extra classes a few hours per week to children that battle with it, to have a small income while studying for my degree, and then earn a Computer Science degree, which I'm also good at, since I would only need 24 additional credits to earn a 2nd bachelors degree. If I am forced to look for a full-time job after these 2 bachelor degrees, then at least I have a professional qualification.

However, my end goal is a bachelors degree in chemistry or physics  from COSC, which will be my 3rd bachelors degree and that will take very long, I presume, because I used to suck at mathematics, but I am working on becoming better at math because I'm not a complete idiot; only a terrible math foundation was laid in primary school which caused me to get poor marks. All is different now thanks to Khan and Math-U-See, although I had to lay a new foundation myself by going back to grade 3 and working my way up from there. (Still not quite there, but it's coming along quite well--high-school level now). So I need and obviously want these 3 bachelor degrees. How can I make this happen? What advice can you provide or maybe even a possible plan that might speed things up. Any advice is most welcome.

Personally I think you should skip the English degree and go right to CompSci, because it became a lot quicker to do CompSci a few months ago and you said you're good at the subject. Nearly all of the English-teaching places don't care what your degree is in.

[jsh1138]

I asked my COSC adviser about this maybe 6 months ago and she said they don't like to give multiple BA's because going on to your MA is better value for money for the student. I asked her if she could just find out for me anyway and she said she would, but never got back to me. I asked her again a few times, the latest one last week, and never got an answer.

At Excelsior I believe you have to petition the dean to get a 3rd BA, but I could be wrong about that.

[4dog]

Ideas, I see you are currently working on a BA Computer Science/English degree. Is this a dual degree? If you have a degree plan for this, I might be able to follow it and earn the same degree as this is what I want to earn, although I think it would be more impressive to have two separate degrees especially for a resume. Please provide me with your degree plan if you don't mind. I'd like to scan it to see if it will work for me since I've already completed courses such as English Lit and American Lit. I'm currently busy with Intro to Criminal Justice.