Tech degree planning

[Braedot]

Your Location: Utah
Your Age: 24
What kind of degree do you want?: Bachelors with a major in tech. Major flexible, but preferably IT. More interested in networking, cybersecurity, cloud and less interested in data analytics, software development, and computer science
Current Regional Accredited Credits: None.
Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: None.
Any certifications or military experience?: CompTIA 220-1101 exam passed, but not 220-1102 for the A+.
Budget: I'd really like to keep it under the 15k mark
Commitments: A full time job and a girlfriend
Dedicated time to study: 20-30h a week
Timeline: 36 months or less; would like an associates within 18
Tuition assistance/reimbursement: I may be getting assistance from the state, but I'm still waiting to hear on eligibility and benefit details. Might get some from the pell grant

I'd like an associates degree along the way if logical. IT Certifications or an undergraduate certification along the way would be nice, but not as important to me.
I'd *prefer* a non-proctored environment. Really want to do as many courses on Sophia as possible
I'd *prefer* not to do Calculus level math or above
It's a requirement for me to be able to accomplish everything online.
Willing to spend a little more (with the total budget still being 15k) to accommodate the associates degree preference

Here's what I've got so far. I've emailed Snow College to see if their cybersecurity/networking AAS program will accept ACE credits. If they do, I'll do that and transfer it into WGU.

If not, this would be the plan for a WGU IT degree:
WGU plan spreadsheet

Open to other programs/schools. I considered the BABA PM&IS at UMPI but the courses are not interesting to me at all, I want to learn applicable skills for my field.

The PUG/TESU Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing programs seem interesting. I haven't looked much into SNHU


Thanks for reading and I appreciate any feedback

[Avidreader]

I suggest you start working on the coursera certs to start knocking courses. It Support would be the first because it has the subjects you are most interest in and WGU accepts it for credit.
While it is always best to only have 1 subscription service active to make the best of time, there's so many sophia courses that require touchstones (you have to wait until they are graded to get the credit and can only open 2 courses concurrently) that you could take the very long English Sophia course alongside a quick Gen Ed course without touchstones like Visual Communications or Env Science to start knocking cresit asap before signing up for a college.

Start working on accumulating credit while looking at the wiki course maps, WGU doesn't let you transfer more credits once you start class, so you must get the max transfer. Also worth noting University of the People is waiting until February for the final say whether it will gain RA status. They accept Sophia and the coursera certs and offer a Computer Science degree. In the possibility they don't succeed, Tesu accepts their credits for their Comp Science bachelors degree. Not sure if WGU accepts them, some students have had success transferring to UMPI with UoPeople associates degrees.

[Braedot]

Thanks for the feedback, definitely looking to get started as soon as possible, but want to make sure I'm pursuing the correct certifications and courses.

Started looking into the AAS in IT and BSIT at Purdue Global, I revised the spreadsheet to reflect an updated degree plan of that... More expensive if I can't get it reimbursed, though

[jg_nuy]

TESU has a couple of options that could work. The degree plans are here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:TESU

BS in IT https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...egree_Plan
BS in Cloud Computing https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...egree_Plan
BA in CS https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...ience_Plan

You can add both associates and undergraduate certificates without any extra costs:
https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...gree_Plans
https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...cate_Plans