Have a lot of credits, want a BA, need advice please!

[natshar]

Ok, so a BALS at TESU will be the easiest, but most expensive (21 credits/7 courses remaining):

American Government - ICC $20
Intro to Ethics + any course - Sophia $79
2 Add'l courses - Sophia $79
Cornerstone, capstone, fees - TESU $6,654
TOTAL $6,832
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A BALS at COSC will be the cheapest, but you'll have to take UL courses at Study.com to fill out your concentration (I suggest Psych & Soc since you're halfway there); you'll also have to take 9 courses instead of 7 since you have to have a concentration there, and you need to fulfill a couple of requirements):

(27 credits/9 courses remaining)
BUS 318: Management Ethics (Ethics + needed UL credit)
US History or Gov't course
SOC 305: Sociology of Work
2 UL Psych courses
2 LL Soc or Psych courses (non-duplicating)
(I'd probably take Social Psych and Advanced Social Psych, and then Abnormal Psych and then Advanced Abnormal Psych to take advantage of the Study.com platform)

3 months at Study.com $600
Cornerstone, capstone, fees - COSC $3,181
TOTAL $3,781
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A BALA at EC will be between the 2 (2nd cheapest, 2nd easiest) - Multi-source option:

20cr / 8 courses remaining (2 courses are 1cr, including Info Lit and a Sophia course)
BUS 318: Management Ethics (Ethics + needed UL credit)
2 UL liberal arts courses - 1 month at Study.com $270
4cr additional (so a 3cr and 1cr course) - 1 month at Sophia $79
Cornerstone, capstone, fees - EC $5,300
TOTAL $5,649

You can also opt for some free TEEX credits if you want, but Sophia's 1cr courses are SO fast and easy, as is Intro to IT, which you can complete in a day.  I'd do this just for the ease & convenience.
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People on here will recommend UMPI, but honestly with how many credits you have, and having to take a full 30cr there, I think that you're much better off just going through one of the Big 3.  But it can't hurt to see what they bring everything in as for sure.

UMPI BLS (my guestimate):
Hands-on art (unless they accept your music here, which they may not)
Art theory (unless they accept your Lit Analysis course)
American Govt
Intro to Ethics
18cr major

If they accept your Music and lit analysis credits, then you'd replace those with 2 other courses in free electives.

The main issue here is going to be speed - you need to complete courses fairly easily in order to keep costs down.  Here's a list of costs for UMPI, with how quickly you'd have to finish as compared to the Big 3:

UMPI 1 term (8 weeks) = $1,400
UMPI 2 terms (16 weeks) = $2,800
< COSC $3,800 >
UMPI 3 terms (24 weeks) = $4,200
UMPI 4 terms (32 weeks) = $5,600
< EC $5,650 >
< TESU $6,800 >
UMPI 5 terms (40 weeks) = $7,000

As I mentioned as well. I believe doing 16 credits at TESU would be cheaper than doing 16 with ACE, especially if you get financial aid.

Flat rate at TESU: $4639 for out-of-state. So if you are able to do 16 credits at once that makes at over 1k cheaper.

You have to take at TESU:
-sos 110 3 cr
-capstone 3 cr

and then take enough to add to at least 16 total credits at TESU.

I'd recommend taking:
-American gov pos 110 3 cr (as an e-pack which makes it more self-paced)
-a six-credit course like social psych (maybe as an epack)
-pla 100 1 cr (its only 4 weeks long)

But those are just ideas, since you have a lot of credits. You can take really easy credits at TESU for the remaining 10 credits to get to 16 so the workload isn't difficult if you want to do it all in one term.


Then just take a single course from sophia if you follow my example above, take ethics and then you are all set.