Online Engineering Choice

[bjcheung77]

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Option 1. American Military University,  Electrical Engineering (PROS: Regionally Accredited, Engineering.   CONS: non-ABET, long @ 3-4 years)

1) They allow transfers into their program, up to 91 credits, but total cost of this program even with the transfers are over $12-$13,000 in total cost.

Option 2. TESU, Electronic Systems Engineering Technology   (PROS: Regionally Accredited, ABET,       CONS: non-engineering, expensive, long @ 5-6 years)

2) This program is a very good program, but transferring courses into the program are the ones harder to find, probably the same price as Excelsior, but without the ABET accreditation

Option 3. Excelsior, same as TESU

3) **For your currently situation, I recommend getting a TESU BALS with a CS/Engineering for it being the cheapest/easiest/fastest of the bunch.  This is the ideal one I would pick and I would recommend this over the others due to ABET, cheaper/easier/faster, I'll get into the details in a second**

Option 4. Grantham Electronics Engineering (PROS: ABET, Accepts Penn Foster AS as 60 credits, CONS: non-engineering, nationally accredited, 2-3 years)

4) They allow transfers too, but it's $34,000, even if you can transfer over 60 credits, that'll be $17,000

Option 5. Charter Oak State College Engineering Studies (Electrical Concentration) (PROS: Regionally Accredited, Fast @ 1-2 years (with classes from AMU)   CONS: Non-ABET,  How would I list this on my resume? "BS in General Studies, concentration in Engineering Studies, with a Specialization in Electrical Engineering" or can I just put "BS Engineering Studies, conc. Electrical Engineering")

5) I seriously don't know what the difference is with this BS General Studies with say a TESU BALS (Nat Science concentration), if you take the exact courses for AOS.  The BALS sounds better than a BSGS - its virtually identical in appeal, but TESU would come out cheaper/easier/faster.

Option 6. Start my capstone later and fill up my degree with lots of math, phys and EE courses from AMU and hope to get into grad school for engineering PROS: Fast @1 year CONS: nearly impossible)

6) This is another option, take the BALS with a concentration in Nat/Science, choose all CompSci, CIS and/or Engineering courses

California National University For Advanced Studies (Pros: Engineering  CONS: non-ABET, nationally accredited, long @ 3-4 years, cost just over AMU per course)

7) This one is too expensive for Nationally Accredited as well, similar to Grantham in all regards but missing ABET

Arizona State University (Pros: ABET, Engineering, Regionally Accredited CONS: Very very expensive and Long @ 4 years)

8) As you mentioned, lengthy time frame and expensive, but they probably have the largest online offering of any school, and well recognized state university

It's such a dilemma, AMU is regionally accredited and EE but that ABET stamp has me worried.
Grantham is not engineering and nationally accredited, but has the ABET stamp and I could potentially cut the program length in half or more by doing the Penn Foster AS which as an articulation agreement transfers in as 60 credits and I spoke with them and they accept ACE, but COSC seems so fast and cheap cause I can take classes through AMU and transfer.

I was thinking of taking the courses I needed through AMU then transfer to COSC. That way I can get AMU's cost with COSC's name (state college vs AMU's for-profit) and at a faster speed.

There are a few times I recommend WGU or Excelsior and it's for their IT degrees, in this case, Excelsior wins my vote over TESU.
They have an ABET (Computing) BSIT with 4 concentrations (General IT is the one I would choose, Cybersecurity, Info Security, Network Ops).  The requirements are similar to the COSC Engineering Studies with the main difference being COSC requires Bio/Chem/Physics labs, Calculus II/III, but Excelsior doesn't.

https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/curre...tudies.cfm
COSC Engineering Studies Concentration Requirements (36 cr, 15 UL)

Calculus 1-2    6 cr
Calculus 3 or Multivariate Calculus    3 cr
Differential Equations    3 cr
Five (5) courses that emphasize a specifically focused traditional engineering area    15cr upper level
Two (2) engineering courses from outside your area of focus  6 cr
EGR 499: Capstone    3 cr

Co-requisites: (12 cr)

General Physics with Lab (calculus-based), 4cr
CHE 101: Chemistry with Lab, 4cr
BIO 110: Biology I with Lab


Check page 43 of their Tech Catalog - http://publications.excelsior.edu/progra...index.html
https://www.excelsior.edu/programs/techn...lor-degree
There are 48 credits that's part of the IT Component, several of them are easily available at online CC's or ACE/NCCRS

There are 15 UL required in the 48 IT compenents, choose General option to "design/make your own concentration"
For these 15, I highly recommend you the APU/AMU route in getting those credits using their ENTD courses OR the CSU Global CBE's that might fit into this area.  https://csuglobal.edu/admissions/transfe...t-exam-cbe

**More to come, I should do a "pricing" breakdown or at least do the one for COSC, TESU and Excelsior.
I'll give you another option that might be another way as well... going to put the kids to sleep first...**

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