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EC Final Cost - cecilgambe7 - 07-12-2020
First of all, my apologies for starting a topic on something that has been talked about before and that is very basic for everyone, but as an international student there are things that I just don't understand because education system in my country is so different.
My original plan was to made the COSC BSBA but due to COSC recent changes i decide to move to EC.
EC is more expensive than COSC, and until a month ago I didn't care about paying more.
Now things changes, COVID, in one hand, drastically affect my business, i'm out of business up to 2021, and I don't know what will happen in 2021. In the other hand i can't go out of my country, my second source of income was abroad.
I am living off my savings and things are going well, but I can no longer spend the same way as before.
I advanced a lot thanks to Sophia, I look closer to my BSBA, but it is not clear to me how much I should pay once I have my full credits.
EC shows two options, the course option and the multi-source option
Course option request 12 credits with them so i think the mult-source option is cheaper
Then i must pay:
Admission Application Fee - 50$
Enrollment Fee - 1095$
Tuition - 7 credits * 510 per credit = 3570$
Student Service Annual Fee - 495$ per year (??)
Technology Fee - 20$ per credit and per exam (??)
Graduation Fee - 495$
Certificate Program - 0$
5725$ total??
The Student Service Annual Fee is "$495 x number of years of enrollment after the first year" i need to pay it if i enroll and finish in one term??
Technology fee is "$20 per course credit and per exam", this apply to the courses i complete with them?? or for all the courses i transfer?
Thanks in advance for your replies and feedback.
RE: EC Final Cost - TwinMom - 07-12-2020
You are correct in that you would only pay the Student Service Annual Fee after the first year.
The tech fee applies to courses you take from them so: 7 cr (Info Lit, Cornerstone, Capstone) x $20
RE: EC Final Cost - cecilgambe7 - 07-12-2020
(07-12-2020, 06:00 PM)TwinMom Wrote: You are correct in that you would only pay the Student Service Annual Fee after the first year.
The tech fee applies to courses you take from them so: 7 cr (Info Lit, Cornerstone, Capstone) x $20
Thank you for your reply, so based on it i will spend: 5350$
Plus study.com fee for remaing credits. I think it is a fair price, but at the worst moment.
Sadly i will reconsider COSC where everything is more complicated but also cheaper, i will not discard any choise now.
RE: EC Final Cost - Kab - 07-14-2020
There is no way to get a cheaper tuition?
RE: EC Final Cost - Life Long Learning - 07-14-2020
If you think 5k for a BS degree is expensive go to a B&M University.
RE: EC Final Cost - cecilgambe7 - 07-14-2020
(07-14-2020, 12:43 AM)Kab Wrote: There is no way to get a cheaper tuition?
COSC is about 3K but now with the weird new requests you will spend more money, time and also energy by getting the non-ACE 30 credits...
RE: EC Final Cost - bjcheung77 - 07-14-2020
Brandman/COSC is most likely the cheapest RA degree provider unless you can get it free with tuition assistance/reimbursement. There are programs out there that do offer tuition to employees - for me, I don't have the luxury yet... Brandman is competency based, COSC is test-out-able. If cost is an issue and Nationally Accreditation is an option for you, you may want to go with some of the schools that have DEAC accreditation (Ashworth/Penn Foster), they pretty much cost the same as Brandman/COSC.
RE: EC Final Cost - Kab - 07-14-2020
Thanks for the input.
I will hoard more EC credits and then I will keep an eye on Ex, COSC & Brandman. NA is not an option for me at the moment (unless is extremely cheap). I was hoping that existed a way to reduce tuition at EX....
RE: EC Final Cost - cecilgambe7 - 07-14-2020
(07-14-2020, 09:45 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Brandman/COSC is most likely the cheapest RA degree provider unless you can get it free with tuition assistance/reimbursement. There are programs out there that do offer tuition to employees - for me, I don't have the luxury yet... Brandman is competency based, COSC is test-out-able. If cost is an issue and Nationally Accreditation is an option for you, you may want to go with some of the schools that have DEAC accreditation (Ashworth/Penn Foster), they pretty much cost the same as Brandman/COSC.
Everything was OK with COSC up to the moment they implement the 30 non-ACE credits rule, now they complicated everything a lot, specially for international students. I will see the way to fit the 30 credits in order to made it cheaper, if not i will pay for EC.
RE: EC Final Cost - Kab - 07-15-2020
(07-14-2020, 05:14 PM)cecilgambe7 Wrote:(07-14-2020, 09:45 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Brandman/COSC is most likely the cheapest RA degree provider unless you can get it free with tuition assistance/reimbursement. There are programs out there that do offer tuition to employees - for me, I don't have the luxury yet... Brandman is competency based, COSC is test-out-able. If cost is an issue and Nationally Accreditation is an option for you, you may want to go with some of the schools that have DEAC accreditation (Ashworth/Penn Foster), they pretty much cost the same as Brandman/COSC.
Everything was OK with COSC up to the moment they implement the 30 non-ACE credits rule, now they complicated everything a lot, specially for international students. I will see the way to fit the 30 credits in order to made it cheaper, if not i will pay for EC.
I agree with you.
Do you think that for international students could be possible to make credits (or study) in another country and then bring this into COSC?
I understand that the NO ACE rule for 30 credits is to try to promote their own courses but is quite a barrier to jump.