Is there a limit on degrees?

[Griffin]

Hi! I will be going to TESC next year, and I have been wondering if there was a maximum amount of degrees you can pursue.

I have always heard that you can only receive 2 BAs, but what about other degrees (BS, BSBA, etc)?

I'm definitely curious!

[perrik]

TESC policy is that you can pursue two baccalaureate degrees from them, or pursue a second after you've received your first elsewhere. Baccalaureate applies to any bachelor's degree, so that would limit you to two bachelors no matter what comes after the "B"!

TESC and Excelsior both require that your second baccalaureate degree be significantly different from the first. TESC doesn't get into details. Excelsior is more specific, stating that you may only get one bachelor from any of their divisions. If your first Excelsior degree is a BS/General Accounting from the School of Business, you cannot pursue a second baccalaureate in Marketing but you can seek a BA/History or a BS/IT.

Neither school will allow you to pursue a 3rd baccalaureate degree from them, but I think that means you cannot get two from EC and then pursue a third from EC. Theoretically you could get one baccalaureate from each of three colleges - although the admission committee for the third is going to wonder why you are going back yet again to undergrad work instead of moving forward. (future employers may ask the same question)

[Gary]

Almost all educators (and business people) will tell you to move forward, not laterally. I thought about doing that for my Business Admin degree and was talked out of it by many. In hindsight, I agree w/them. You'd be better at least going for a grad certificate than another Bachelors in almost all instances, UNLESS you are dramatically changing fields, such as Business to Chemistry or something along those lines. While that is my feeling, that is also the belief of many. One example, the Business Admin coordinator at Fairleigh Dickinson told me a few weeks ago, I am much better off moving forward and not taking their BA program, especially in light of how many qualified people are sitting on the sidelines right now waiting to get in the ballgame. Some programs, such as the MBA at Wilmington University will take you if you have a Bachelors Degree regardless of what it is in. They give you the needed prereqs in the early semesters so you will not struggle. There are other programs that do the same as well.

[cookderosa]

I agree with Gary. Move up and specialize. Would you get a second high school diploma?

A master's degree is 36 +/- credits. Granted you can't CLEP out of them, but you also can't CLEP a second major (33cr. +/-) at TESC so your neutral.

Up, up, up! Only 20% of the USA population has a master's degree, use the time and money saved through your bachelor's to give you a running start into your master's.

[Griffin]

Almost all educators (and business people) will tell you to move forward, not laterally. I thought about doing that for my Business Admin degree and was talked out of it by many. In hindsight, I agree w/them. You'd be better at least going for a grad certificate than another Bachelors in almost all instances, UNLESS you are dramatically changing fields, such as Business to Chemistry or something along those lines. While that is my feeling, that is also the belief of many. One example, the Business Admin coordinator at Fairleigh Dickinson told me a few weeks ago, I am much better off moving forward and not taking their BA program, especially in light of how many qualified people are sitting on the sidelines right now waiting to get in the ballgame. Some programs, such as the MBA at Wilmington University will take you if you have a Bachelors Degree regardless of what it is in. They give you the needed prereqs in the early semesters so you will not struggle. There are other programs that do the same as well.

It is mostly a curiosity question, I'm not really interested in completing ten bachelor's degrees. hilarious

I may be looking at completing a BSN through them, so it's good to know that if I want the BSN that I can't look at another Bacc program at TESC. I also have the option of doing an RN-MSN bridge program through Drexel, which would be much more efficient, but it is also very competitive. So I want to keep my options open.

My field is psychology, which I love and don't really plan to leave, but I also plan to become a nurse practitioner so that I can help my future patients more effectively. Because I'm going after a doctorate in Psychology as well, I have a wide latitude as to the order in which I enter degree programs.

Thanks for the help!