Free Excelsior College Degree

[Excelmywayup]

My Free Degree From Excelsior College

Hello All,

Instant Cert and Speedyprep will be my prep sources for the exams. So that is why you will encounter them next to the courses.

Bachelor of Science in Business, Concentration: General Business from Excelsior College

Arts and Science – 60 Needed

CLEP History of the United States I 3 Instant Cert
CLEP History of the United States II 3 Instant Cert
CLEP College Composition 3 Taken Class
CLEP Humanities 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Biology 6 Instant Cert
CLEP College Mathematics 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3 SpeedyPrep
CLEP American Government 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6 Book
CLEP Microeconomics 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Macroeconomics 3 Taken Class
CLEP Introductory Sociology 3 Instant Cert
CLEP American Literature 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP College Algebra 3 Taken Class
DSST Principles of Statistics 3 Instant Cert or MAT-201 Statistics 3 Excelsior College

Career Component – 45 Needed (12 Upper)

CLEP Financial Accounting 3 Taken Class
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 Taken Class
CLEP Information Systems 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Management 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 Instant Cert
DSST Principles of Finance 3 Instant Cert or BUS-350 Principles of Finance 3 Excelsior College
DSST Business Ethics Instant Cert or 3 BUS-323 Business Ethics 3 Excelsior College
BUS-553 Organizational Behavior 3 Excelsior College
ACC -212 Managerial Accounting 3 Excelsior College
BUS-520 Operations Management 3 Excelsior College
BUS-495 Business Strategy 3 Excelsior College
BUS-300 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3 Excelsior College
BUS-312 Managing Human Resources 3 Excelsior College
BUS-310 Entrepreneurial Marketing 3 Excelsior College
DSST Management Information Systems 3 Instant Cert or BUS-452 Business Leadership 3 Excelsior College

Electives – 15 Needed ( May be Covered by Basic Training / AIT AARTS Transcript )

Information Literacy 1
CLEP Precalculus 3 Book
CLEP Natural Sciences 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6 SpeedyPrep

Why will it be free?
All CLEPS and DSST are free to the Active Military aka me Active Army
Tuition Assistance will cover the rest. For free.
E-ArmyU through Excelsior will waive all enrollment, application, and administrative fees as long as I complete 18 credits with Excelsior College - some of my business classes.

The only out of pocket expenses I will be paying for, are for books and those won't even cost much on ebay.

My goal is to have all of my Excelsior classes be A's. Furthermore, every DSST or CLEP exam I have listed is either pass or fail to Excelsior which means it will not affect my GPA either way.

Tell me what you think

[valsacar]

Looks pretty good, wish I had done it all while I was still active... but god that BAH from the new GI bill is great.

While not free (20USD/mo can do as many as you want), the ALEKS math classes are ACE approved and not that hard if you find the math CLEP too difficult.

Just remember, first time CLEP/DSST/ECE is free, if you fail it's out of your pocket after that.

[MA2]

Looks pretty good, wish I had done it all while I was still active... but god that BAH from the new GI bill is great.

Yea except finding a class I need that's taught here locally is near impossible. :/

[valsacar]

Yea except finding a class I need that's taught here locally is near impossible. :/

I'm a contractor, so I use UMUC on the base for random electives.

[MA2]

I've tested out of all of those... I really only have upper level accounting, finance, and business core classes left for the most part.

[Excelmywayup]

Well, which ones should I study the most for? Is InstantCert Good?

[MA2]

You can test out of a lot of the business classes too... I'd recommend doing that. Why take a class if you don't have to?

[Lyanne]

I don't know if there is a fee for speedy prep, but you don't need it for American Literature. You can get The Idiot's Guide to American Literature from the library and pass with that and the specific exam feedback thread here on instant cert alone.

[Excelmywayup]

noted. thank you very much