Has anyone recently enrolled at COSC?

[bjcheung77]

Essentially, I would put COSC as a backup option... My recommendation for you is to see if you can get your degree from one of the other recommended institutions such as TESU, UMPI, or another CBE option such as ETAMU, WGU, etc... All of these are universities, and COSC is still a college... If you look at the Ivy's, only one of them is a college out of the entire list, sometimes an institution name matters...

[Sunny21]

What kind of student is going to charter Oak now they are very inflexible on alternative credits?

[LevelUP]

We stopped recommending this college back in late 2020, when they began adding new requirements, such as 30 RA credits to graduate.

There are much better options available now.

[bjcheung77]

What kind of student is going to charter Oak now they are very inflexible on alternative credits?

LevelUP is correct, when the previous Associate Director left (about the same time), I haven't recommended the institution. Bob (always had a coupon or discount code for applications), when the new learning system that also came into place in addition to the changes, there wasn't much interest in their offerings anymore. The only type of students that would benefit are the ones who already have plenty of RA credits from community colleges and universities, but haven't graduated yet...

[Sunny21]

Maybe it needs to not have its own board now if it is a place no one really wants to attend.

[Jonathan Whatley]

The market of people with about a year or more of RA credit but no bachelor’s degree is still millions of people.

[Sunny21]

The market of people with about a year or more of RA credit but no bachelor’s degree is still millions of people.

The other thought I had was maybe people with grants or military aid might still go there. 

329 x 90  credits = $ 29610 

So not cheap really 

I am not sure if grants cover that much

[Jonathan Whatley]

You’re getting categories mixed up. A Charter Oak bachelor’s has a minimum 30 credits RA from any RA school (including Charter Oak, so the cornerstone and capstone count towards this). You’re counting as if that’s a 30 credit maximum from external sources.

[Sunny21]

I took your assumption that people have 30 ISH credits then multiplied what was left by the per credit fee
Is that wrong?

[Jonathan Whatley]

You can still bring in up to 90 of the 120 credits in a Charter Oak bachelor’s degree from alt-credit sources, including I think every CLEP and DSST except CLEP College Composition Modular, and a fair number of Sophia, Study, and Straighterline courses (but not every, not as many as they used to take, and I think they’re more likely to go to electives than they used to).