How has degree planning changed over the years?

[Sunny21]

90 alternative credit is the max, it can be ACE/NCCRS, etc - You need 30 RA credits, you can take them through community colleges or using the TECEPs that TESU offers, up to 24 credits if you're paying the Edison Accelerate fee, thus 114 max transfer credit.  If you're doing the 15 RA credits using TECEPs, that leaves you with 15 credits for the flat rate term at TESU.  Thus, if you're doing 90 ACE and 15 through TECEPs, these are not real classes, they're alternative credit, it just happens to be 15 RA credits using TECEPs, your max transfer becomes 105 credits.

I always wondered if someone had tried a 105 credit transfer bachelor's through an overseas evaluator to see if they think it is equal to a degree in Hong Kong or UK say. 30 credits Ra they seem to say is but I wonder about 15 credits ra

[Mint Berry Crunch]

90 alternative credit is the max, it can be ACE/NCCRS, etc - You need 30 RA credits, you can take them through community colleges or using the TECEPs that TESU offers, up to 24 credits if you're paying the Edison Accelerate fee, thus 114 max transfer credit.  If you're doing the 15 RA credits using TECEPs, that leaves you with 15 credits for the flat rate term at TESU.  Thus, if you're doing 90 ACE and 15 through TECEPs, these are not real classes, they're alternative credit, it just happens to be 15 RA credits using TECEPs, your max transfer becomes 105 credits.

I always wondered if someone had tried a 105 credit transfer bachelor's through an overseas evaluator to see if they think it is equal to a degree in Hong Kong or UK say. 30 credits Ra they seem to say is but I wonder about 15 credits ra

IIRC, TESU recognizes ENEB as RA Bachelors. You could probably do it that way, but it would take some time to receive your degree from ENEB and have it evaluated at TESU to continue undergrad work. At that point, I would work towards their Masters.

[Sunny21]

ENEB looks a bit strange in terms of pricing 2900 normal price but 1800 with a scholarship. It is however not clear what you have do for a scholarship

[bjcheung77]

Absolutely nothing, the sale pricing is the scholarship!

[Sunny21]

Absolutely nothing, the sale pricing is the scholarship!

It is for brave people it seems very confusing.

[Sunny21]

Yes, ENEB has no value for people in Europe. It is considered worthless. Only value is as a bit of fun or if you wanted to take it to TESU as an international student. Someone managed to get some credits accepted back in 2022. So even that might be out dated now.
It really is for the brave.

[LevelUP]

In some ways, it’s gotten much easier.

Years ago, degree hacking mostly meant CLEP and DSST, and that required a lot more test-prep, test-anxiety, and sometimes travel to testing centers. Now with Sophia, Study.com, Coursera ACE/NCCRS options, there’s a much wider menu of self-paced, low-stress alternatives. For most students, that makes knocking out gen eds and electives significantly faster and more affordable.

But in other ways, it’s gotten a bit more complicated.

With so many alternative credit providers, the “What fits where?” question has gotten trickier. Schools change their transfer policies more frequently, and we’ve seen some formerly generous institutions tighten up on upper-level credit or residency requirements. Planning used to be fairly straightforward: pass the right exams, send the credits, done. Now it sometimes takes more research to make sure each course still transfers the way it used to.

Overall, the flexibility today is miles ahead of what it used to be.

Back then, CLEPs and DSSTs mostly funneled people into Liberal Arts or Business degrees because those were the only programs that lined up well with the available exams. Now, thanks to the huge variety of courses from providers like Sophia, Study.com, Coursera, and others, you can realistically build alternative-credit pathways into many more majors. The range of degree options has expanded just as much as the number of credit sources.

[bjcheung77]

Furthermore, the pricing got cheaper as Coursera, Sophia.org, Study.com, and other alternative options such as StraighterLine now have package deals, promotions, and/or sales. Moreover, you have ETAMU/UMPI recently allowing a transfer of 90 credits, you can complete the 30 residency credits in one or two sessions and the degree can be had for easier and faster! Essentially, it's become much better now than it was before...

[Sunny21]

Furthermore, the pricing got cheaper as Coursera, Sophia.org, Study.com, and other alternative options such as StraighterLine now have package deals, promotions, and/or sales.  Moreover, you have ETAMU/UMPI recently allowing a transfer of 90 credits, you can complete the 30 residency credits in one or two sessions and the degree can be had for easier and faster!  Essentially, it's become much better now than it was before...

How much cheaper have third party credit platforms become over time?

[SteveFoerster]

I graduated from Charter Oak twenty years ago now, and the planning itself was easier back then when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There were fewer options for alt-credit, so it wasn't hard to figure out how to make the most of what there was. In my case, I just took transfer credit from various places I'd accumulated over the years, did a boatload of CLEP tests, took a few upper division courses that nothing else would cover, and that was that.

The actual execution, however, is easier nowadays, though, because there's an inexpensive option out there for nearly every requirement—even the requirement for actual college/university coursework. So it's not as big a deal that one needs more of that now than in my day.