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Question about big 3 - 68W - 04-01-2013
There is any difference that you all know about big 3? such as tuition, administration, and academic standard.
I need to make choice between Excelsior, and TESC, and need some guideline of these 2 schools.
If anyone knows about pros and cons of these 2 school, able to share some insider point of view?
Thanks.
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Question about big 3 - sanantone - 04-01-2013
They're both accredited by the Middle States. I think Excelsior has ABET accreditation for a couple of programs and TESC has it for one. That doesn't really matter to anyone who is not majoring in an engineering field. They both have programmatic accreditation for their nursing programs; but, again, that doesn't matter to non-nursing students. Neither one of them are highly-ranked schools. Neither one of them will impress employers.
Excelsior has a lower enrollment fee than TESC. If you're only going to take a few courses at either school, Excelsior could be cheaper depending on what you're going to major in. If you're going to take several courses at one of the schools, TESC is cheaper. It's easier to mostly test out of more majors at TESC since their programs either have less required courses leaving flexibility to take anything in the subject or their requirements are more aligned with available CBEs (credit by examination). TESC also accepts more CBEs as UL. They even take community college courses as UL while the other two Big 3 schools don't.
If you have a lot of IT certifications or if you have a lot of credits to transfer from a nationally-accredited school, then Excelsior would probably be the better option. It all depends on what you're looking to major in. And the employees at TESC are rude and dumb.