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What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Pelican - 03-13-2018
Many majors are difficult to study at the Big 3, at least using cost-cutting solutions, as it is difficult to find sources of cheap upper level credit.
I'm aware that these majors are fairly easy to achieve using alternative sources of ACE credit, such as Study.com, Straighterline, etc.:
- Liberal Studies
- Business
- History
- English
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Life Long Learning - 03-14-2018
Business has a ton of alternative sources of ACE credit for all three Big 3.
History at Excelsior College is excellent with DSST UL.
English?
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - dfrecore - 03-14-2018
Communications & Psychology can both be fully tested out of.
History will have 1 expensive course to take (Historical Methods/Historiography ~$800 at AMU or FHSU)
English will have 1 expensive course to take (Non-Western Lit - BYU IS $534)
Psych has a UExcel that needs to be taken (only $145, but has to be at a testing center)
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Life Long Learning - 03-14-2018
(03-14-2018, 12:44 AM)dfrecore Wrote: History will have 1 expensive course to take (Historical Methods/Historiography ~$800 at AMU or FHSU)
Do all three Big 3 require this in history?
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Ideas - 03-14-2018
Sometimes Health Sciences or Criminal Justice if someone already has certifications. (They already are a police officer, etc.) Or sometimes the BS in Professional Studies for some people with these jobs or certifications:
Paralegal/Legal Studies
Police Science/Homeland Security/Criminal Justice
Military Studies/Military Science
Office Systems Technology/Executive Assistant
Health Services: Dental Hygiene/Sonography/ Respiratory Therapy/Radiation Therapy/etc.
Real Estate
Mortuary Science
Business: Accounting/Retail Management/Fashion/Sports Management/etc.
Drafting
Culinary Arts/Hospitality
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - rlw74 - 03-14-2018
It depends too on what you are bringing in. If you already have a non-western Lit course from another college then it's easy to find the other ACE options for English... Same with the other degrees. If it's all new coursework, it's going to be more expensive when you go outside the BALS / Business type degrees.
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - jsd - 03-14-2018
(03-14-2018, 12:44 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Psychology can both be fully tested out of.
If you're talking about TESU only (I don't know about the other two schools), then Pscyh still needs one TESU course aside from the capstone, the Ethics in Social Sciences course. Study.com is working on getting their version credit-evaluated though so this might not be true for very long.
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - dfrecore - 03-14-2018
(03-14-2018, 12:44 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Communications & Psychology can both be fully tested out of.
History will have 1 expensive course to take (Historical Methods/Historiography ~$800 at AMU or FHSU)
English will have 1 expensive course to take (Non-Western Lit - BYU IS $534)
Psych has a UExcel that needs to be taken (only $145, but has to be at a testing center)
Sorry, this is TESU only. No idea on COSC or EC at all. I don't even know what majors they offer.
And as jsd said, I missed a Pscyh course that can't be tested out of.
Also, one or the other of the schools will probably give credit for a myriad of certifications people might have, so that might be a form of "testing out" that you hadn't considered. Someone that was in the military might have enough credits in different areas to have all of their AOS done in a bunch of TESU degrees, like Aviation or Technical Studies. People with a Paramedic license can get 47 credits at EC. All different kinds of things are worth credits, possibly even UL, that can get you very close to a degree.
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Bananalu - 04-08-2018
(03-14-2018, 11:46 AM)jsd Wrote:(03-14-2018, 12:44 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Psychology can both be fully tested out of.
If you're talking about TESU only (I don't know about the other two schools), then Pscyh still needs one TESU course aside from the capstone, the Ethics in Social Sciences course. Study.com is working on getting their version credit-evaluated though so this might not be true for very long.
just saw that Study.com is offering Ethics in Social Sciences Now!!!!!
RE: What are the easiest majors to study with alternative credit? - Ideas - 04-08-2018
Study.com plans to make Non-Western Lit available soon, which would make the English degree cheaper by around $580.
Study.com is also going to release an important History course soon which currently can't be tested out of.