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Psych and maybe Business comparing Big 3 to Franklin - sciona13 - 02-25-2025
Your Location: Ohio, USA
Your Age: 38
What kind of degree do you want?: Psychology (maybe also Business)
Current Regional Accredited Credits:19
School Name Total Credits: (an Ohio) Community College #19
Class Name, Credits, Grade
(Past credits)
Intro to Psych, 3, A
Effective Public Speaking, 3, B
Intro to Humanities, 3, A
Introductory Biology (with lab), 4, A
Statistics, 3, A
Health & Nutrition, 3, A
Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits:
Provider Total Credits: CLEP #14*
Class Name, Credits, Grade
CLEP College Composition, 4, score: 74
CLEP Natural Sciences, 6, score: 68
CLEP Marketing, 4, score: 64
*I calculated these based on my current target school (Franklin), applied to other schools, the 4s would be 3s.
Any certifications or military experience? Nope.
Budget: As cheap as humanly possible. My degree is considered completely optional for my family. I desire to do this with as little burden to them as possible and I need to prioritize my kids' education.
Commitments: Stay at home mom, homeschooling 3 kids, lead an educational co-op, hustle a little on the side
Dedicated time to study: I study every Tuesday night, at minimum. For each of my CLEPs, I did Modern States on Tuesday night, read REA Friday afternoon, and took the test that night. Generally, I pick things up very quickly.
Timeline: Flexible, but I would like to utilize my ability to learn quickly. CLEPs are ideal for me because I can study when I have time and learn the way my brain works best and apply it immediately to a test. College has been a struggle in the past because of the need for long-term commitment.
Tuition assistance/reimbursement:
None.
Basically, I have high capacity to learn, turn, and apply to testing. I have often been told by friends with Masters or Doctorates that I could easily be a PhD candidate. But I have always prioritized my family. I have twice attempted to go to college, but life situations backed me out (health, caring for dying family members, etc). I have only just recently learned about flexible options, and am trying once again. I'm trying to not get my hopes up.
I'm currently looking at Franklin University. I am a little hazy on the details for how the Big 3 work now and am hesitant to put much effort toward them. I have written off COSC entirely. I'm a little confused about TESU and EU.
I am planning to take the CLEP for Analyzing Literature this week.
I am planning to take the CLEP for Management, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Business Law, Sociology, Intro to Educational Psych, Human Growth & Development, and Western Civ 1 in the coming weeks.
Some of that may seem strange or unnecessary, but the reason is three-fold: 1. Yes, I'm taking them for myself and degree progression, but, 2. I'm taking the ones that my son plans to take (the business ones) to know how best to help him (he's in 8th grade, enrolled at Franklin) and, 3. I'm taking some that support our homeschool co-op to help shape the classes to "teach to the CLEP" for our older students.
I'm essentially using the time it takes me to complete a bunch of CLEPs to figure out the best path for me.
The Psych degree is for me. The Business degree add-on is kind of like...."Well, if I can add it in as a dual-major, may as well...". But it isn't a high priority.
So this is what I'm looking to figure out:
- Cost comparison between Franklin, TESU, and EU
- Franklin has a lower per-credit rate, I believe
- I'm not sure how low residency requirements are for TESU and EU now
- Psych seems to tend to require more credits through target school than other, more general degrees
- I've heard something about $300 per transcript EU has to examine? If I'm doing a lot of CLEP and ACE, that seems expensive???
- If I stay with Franklin...
- Is there a viable way to combine Business with Psych while keeping it to just 30 credits or so through Franklin?
- I found some ACE courses (Coopersmith and study.com) that look like they might fit some of the UL Psych courses at Franklin but they aren't on the Transfer Tool they have available. Will they be able to tell me in advance is those would be acceptable so I don't waste time?
- Also considering Nationally accredited sources like People's University for cheap credits that can transfer in (cheaper than community college).
RE: Psych and maybe Business comparing Big 3 to Franklin - TINASAM - 02-25-2025
Hello! I graduated with a BS in Social Science (Psychology) and also an associate degree in Business from Franklin. I did my general ed classes through Sophia. I didn't enroll for the associate degree, just send a message to my advisor about having enough business credits transferred in to qualify for it and they issued it while I was working on the bachelor degree. I just wanted to say I really enjoyed my time there and it was a great LMS to deal with, no confusion and very user friendly. The people were always highly responsive and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Just wanted to let you know that
RE: Psych and maybe Business comparing Big 3 to Franklin - sciona13 - 02-25-2025
So, I've been playing around with this a bit and I'm thinking this is a valid path from TESU?
Course/Exam
Title
Credits
Category
CLEP
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
6
Electives
CLEP
Humanities (per TESU website, it doesn't look like this will double up on my Intro to Humanities from CC)
6
Gen Ed
CLEP
Introductory Sociology
3
Gen Ed
CLEP
Human Growth and Development
3
AOS
CLEP
Introductory Educational Psychology
3
AOS
CLEP
Principles of Microeconomics
3
AOS
CLEP
Principles of Management
3
Electives
CLEP
Business Law
3
Electives
CLEP
Information Systems
3
Electives
CLEP
Principles of Macroeconomics
3
Electives
ACE
Sophia: Abnormal Psychology
3
AOS
ACE
Study.com: Org Ethics & Social Resp
3
Gen Ed
ACE
Study.com: Adv. Abnormal Psych
3
AOS (upper-level)
ACE
Study.com: History & Systems of Psych
3
AOS (upper-level)
ACE
Study.com: Adv. Social Psych
3
AOS (upper-level)
ACE
Study.com: Psychology of Learning
3
AOS (upper-level)
ACE
Study.com: Social Psychology
3
AOS
ACE
Study.com: Research Methods in Psych
3
AOS (upper-level)
JSU
JSU Try It: Elective (because this is 3 free RA credits so I meet the RA requirements)
3
Electives
TESU
SOS-1100
3
Gen Ed
TESU
LIB-4950 Capstone
6
Capstone
Thoughts?
(02-25-2025, 10:37 AM)TINASAM Wrote: Hello! I graduated with a BS in Social Science (Psychology) and also an associate degree in Business from Franklin. I did my general ed classes through Sophia. I didn't enroll for the associate degree, just send a message to my advisor about having enough business credits transferred in to qualify for it and they issued it while I was working on the bachelor degree. I just wanted to say I really enjoyed my time there and it was a great LMS to deal with, no confusion and very user friendly. The people were always highly responsive and I wouldn't change it for the world.
Just wanted to let you know that
Thank you for this!! My husband also graduated from Franklin with his undergrad. I've only heard good things about that school! Thank you for the tip on Sophia. It sounds like you were able to transfer in more than what they show on their Transfer Tool. I was wondering if that was possibly the case, because they have very few listed there.
RE: Psych and maybe Business comparing Big 3 to Franklin - TINASAM - 02-25-2025
I would send in everything you have and see what "sticks". I'd also let them know you're interested in a possible business associates while you're working on the Psych bachelor's and see what they have to say. I was able to get all of mine squeezed in just fine for the double degree. I graduated in 2022 if it matters.