Liberal Arts TESU Degree just some questions (Complete newbie)

[Seiph1358]

I have noticed on this thread lately that the people who do the most courses in a single month are people who do Straighterline. I haven't done that, so I'm not a good person to ask, I just think most people can complete a bunch of courses for less that way (average, with fees of a CLEP/DSST is $100, while if you can knock out more than 4 SL courses, the average cost can go well below $80). It used to be CLEP/DSST years ago, but now it's definitely SL.

Of course if you're military, and CLEP/DSST exams are free, then by all means go for it.

As for the per credit option, you enroll that way and it's free. THEN, if you take a course at TESU, the cost is $499/credit (so $1500 for the capstone course). Otherwise, you don't pay for any other credits.

Capstone cannot be completed early as far as I can tell. Takes the full 3 months.

For pricing, average $100 per course for testing, and $1500 for the capstone, $2000 for the residency waiver fee and $300 for graduation fee. That's a good estimate. It may be a little more or a little less depending on how you do it.


Finally, here are the changes I would make:
1) not sure why you would take English Comp as a TECEP if you could do it as a CLEP? I would do the CLEP. I wouldn't do any TECEP's if you didn't really need them, they are harder than CLEP exams (unless you need them for UL)
2) You only listed 9cr in Knowledge of Human Cultures, A&I Lit is worth 6cr.
3) Saylor Biology course is a duplicate of the CLEP, replace it with something else
4) General Anthropology DSST exam is not available right now, it's being revised, replace it
5) College Math CLEP and Applied Math TECEP are easier than ALEKS College Algebra, so think about doing those after you finish ALEKS
6) Think about grouping some more courses to make study easier:
- since you're taking the Tech Writing DSST or TECEP, think about taking the Advanced Tech Writing study.com course (and it's UL)
- since you're taking the History of the Vietnam War DSST, think about taking Causes & Effects of the Vietnam War study.com course
- since you're taking Intro to Psych, think about taking more psych courses (Human Growth & Dev is an easy one, but some are also UL)
- since you're taking US History II, American Government, & Western Political Thought, think about US History I and Intro to Comparative Politics
- since you're taking the Civil War & Reconstruction DSST, think about The American Civil War Era from study.com as well

Things like that, where you kill 2 birds with 1 stone, can be helpful in getting a study plan going. Then, do all similar courses together. Do all math consecutively. Do everything history/politics related the same way. All English/Lit courses. etc.

Hope that helps.

fantastic, thank you, the reason I have TECEP was because I thought I read somewhere either here or one of the hundreds of other places that I looked at if you are an out of state resident and doing per credit you needed to have 24 credits in TECEP but with my luck, I misinterpreted it.
the A&I I came accross this: http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...ded-8.html which lead me to this https://clep.collegeboard.org/develop/ace-credit
I actually have both math courses finished through ALEKS did them both yesterday and ACE approved them today