04-09-2007, 11:38 AM
Hello all of you fellow CLEPers and Dante exam takers,
If you're going for a business degree at Excelsior College, you will need credits in Production/Operations Management and Business Policy. CLEP and DSST do not offer these exams. TECEP exams seem to be the popular alternative, however, they are reputed to be difficult, expensive, and slow to provide your scores. Rumor has it they cost $400 each, and it takes a good 6 weeks or longer to receive your results. Let me tell you about a cheaper, and possibly quicker alternative that will get you your 3 credits quicker that TECEP.
CSU-Pueblo (Colo St. Univ) offers independent study courses for both of the Excelsior College courses I mentioned. You pay tuition of $297 per course then the Professor emails you a syllabus. You get 6 months to turn in the required discussion question assignments from the textbook (another $60-$80 purchase from amazon, Ebay, or half.com) and to take 4 exams. Once you have read the chapters and done the discussion questions, you email the Professor and request the next exam. He will email it to you to take at home. (closed book... of course
). You can bust out the assignments and exams as quickly as possible and the prof claims to be able to grade them quickly and return them with feedback in a day or two. Plus, the Prof is available for questions by email. PLUS... They do NOT verify that you have met the prerequisite courses. Even though you would do yourself an injustice to skip over the prerequisite courses, in my opinion. You need them anyway.
I suspect you can take the course for $297 in... let's say.. 1 month or maybe 2 and get a final grade right away. That sure beats spending $400 for a scary TECEP test that you don't know how well to study for and a long, drug out, lag time waiting for the test to be graded. Besides... what if you fail it?? What a waste of time AND money.
See both course descriptions on this page...
http://coned.colostate-pueblo.edu/Indepe...tudy/Mgmt/
I've done my research and I think you'd be doing something if you found a better value for Production/Operations Management and/or Business Policy at LSU (independent study) or anywhere else. LSU has a restriction on assignments per week. CSU-Pueblo does not.
I am waiting for my textbook to arive in the mail and then I will bust out P/O Mgmt in short order.
I wish I knew whether Excelsior would accept MGMT 460 - Operations Strategy instead of MGMT 485 - Management Strategy and Policy (which is actually the CSU-Pueblo capstone course) for their Business Policy requirements. I have a hunch they will based on the course name. But, I don't know. If you know... would you let me know?
Hope this info helps you as much as me.
If you're going for a business degree at Excelsior College, you will need credits in Production/Operations Management and Business Policy. CLEP and DSST do not offer these exams. TECEP exams seem to be the popular alternative, however, they are reputed to be difficult, expensive, and slow to provide your scores. Rumor has it they cost $400 each, and it takes a good 6 weeks or longer to receive your results. Let me tell you about a cheaper, and possibly quicker alternative that will get you your 3 credits quicker that TECEP.
CSU-Pueblo (Colo St. Univ) offers independent study courses for both of the Excelsior College courses I mentioned. You pay tuition of $297 per course then the Professor emails you a syllabus. You get 6 months to turn in the required discussion question assignments from the textbook (another $60-$80 purchase from amazon, Ebay, or half.com) and to take 4 exams. Once you have read the chapters and done the discussion questions, you email the Professor and request the next exam. He will email it to you to take at home. (closed book... of course
). You can bust out the assignments and exams as quickly as possible and the prof claims to be able to grade them quickly and return them with feedback in a day or two. Plus, the Prof is available for questions by email. PLUS... They do NOT verify that you have met the prerequisite courses. Even though you would do yourself an injustice to skip over the prerequisite courses, in my opinion. You need them anyway.I suspect you can take the course for $297 in... let's say.. 1 month or maybe 2 and get a final grade right away. That sure beats spending $400 for a scary TECEP test that you don't know how well to study for and a long, drug out, lag time waiting for the test to be graded. Besides... what if you fail it?? What a waste of time AND money.
See both course descriptions on this page...
http://coned.colostate-pueblo.edu/Indepe...tudy/Mgmt/
I've done my research and I think you'd be doing something if you found a better value for Production/Operations Management and/or Business Policy at LSU (independent study) or anywhere else. LSU has a restriction on assignments per week. CSU-Pueblo does not.
I am waiting for my textbook to arive in the mail and then I will bust out P/O Mgmt in short order.
I wish I knew whether Excelsior would accept MGMT 460 - Operations Strategy instead of MGMT 485 - Management Strategy and Policy (which is actually the CSU-Pueblo capstone course) for their Business Policy requirements. I have a hunch they will based on the course name. But, I don't know. If you know... would you let me know?
Hope this info helps you as much as me.
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