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Cheapest Bachelors Degree - Alpha - 03-29-2021
I'm pretty sure that it's not actually the cheapest but it's probably in the Top 10.
Southern Utah University Might Just Have The Cheapest 4-Year Degree Program In The Country | KUER
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - rachel83az - 03-29-2021
UMPI is definitely cheaper, with the help of Sophia, and even TESU might beat that price. But, for someone who doesn't want to deal with competency-based or chasing down credits from multiple sources, that's not a bad price. Doubly true if those are graded credits and you want to be able to get into a grad program that expects graded credits.
If anyone here is interested in this degree, I found the school's information page: https://www.suu.edu/bgs/ You can PLA up to 15 credits. https://www.suu.edu/blog/2020/08/prior-learning-assessment.html
If you have prior credit from another school, you can see transfer equivalencies here: https://www.suu.edu/admissions/transfer-guide.html
30 credits may be brought to SUU via CLEP and/or their own challenge exams: https://www.suu.edu/registrar/additional-credit.html Their challenge exams can only be taken in person, as far as I can tell, there is no remote proctoring. They don't appear to accept ACE credits at all beyond CLEP.
If you did CLEP for 30 credits, you could bring the cost of this degree down to $6750 (assuming free CLEP through ModernStates). Bring in credits earned via TEL and/or ONU to potentially drop the cost down even further.
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - bjcheung77 - 03-29-2021
If SUU keeps their program going at $75/credit Upper Level and allows up to 90 credits transfer, it may be a pretty good deal...
In addition to the previous info - Here's the list of majors/minors, etc: https://www.suu.edu/programs/
Catalog page with their Policies: https://catalog.suu.edu/content.php?catoid=22&navoid=3659
Transfer credit 1: https://www.suu.edu/credits/ and Transfer credit 2: https://www.suu.edu/registrar/additional-credit.html
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - wow - 03-30-2021
@bj I believe any of those majors would cost more. The bachelor of general studies page said that the $75 per credit fee was only for that program.
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - rachel83az - 03-30-2021
The article said that the only reason why they're able to offer the BGS for so cheap is that there are so few course choices right now. Instead of being able to choose from the full catalog, you only get to pick from a couple of different courses. Hopefully, they expand their offerings in the future.
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - dfrecore - 03-30-2021
And they have additional requirements:
- 40cr of UL required
- 30cr residency
- Math is required to be above Intermediate Algebra (major deal-breaker for some)
- the BA requires 16cr of a foreign language which would certainly be a deal-breaker for MANY people (2 full years of a foreign language - yikes!) (French, German, Spanish
or Chinese is all they teach there
- the BS requires 12cr of math or science
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - bjcheung77 - 04-29-2021
Hmm, I wonder, would these be usable upper level credit? I mean, for $75/credit, it's $225 for 3 UL graded credits from a Regionally Accredited institution. I think these can be transferred elsewhere, say to the Big 3 or other RA institutions. They have some interesting UL courses... to find the courses, click the link here: https://www.suu.edu/bgs - there is a link for "What courses are available" Summer 2021 and Fall 2021.
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - nomaduser - 05-01-2021
(04-29-2021, 08:27 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Hmm, I wonder, would these be usable upper level credit? I mean, for $75/credit, it's $225 for 3 UL graded credits from a Regionally Accredited institution. I think these can be transferred elsewhere, say to the Big 3 or other RA institutions. They have some interesting UL courses... to find the courses, click the link here: https://www.suu.edu/bgs - there is a link for "What courses are available" Summer 2021 and Fall 2021.
Very interesting! where can I see a full catalog of their online courses??
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - bjcheung77 - 05-01-2021
There is no full catalog for this as they have a specific set of courses available for the BGS, their answer to my question was, it's already listed on the website under "What courses are available for Summer 2021 and for Fall 2021". I assume they'll add more when they find out for Winter or Spring 2022!
RE: Cheapest Bachelors Degree - LevelUP - 05-01-2021
$6000 only in-state tuition
$20,000 out of state. hardly cheap by any standards.
https://www.collegecalc.org/colleges/utah/southern-utah-university/