Help for a beginning international student!

[dfrecore]

@ Supermind


Thank you very much for the detailed reply once again Supermind. It was very kind of you to take the time to give me the details about the various ways to finish the credits.  After Dave's post about the study.com discount, I'm trying to weigh options again. 

@ Davewill

Thank you for the reply Dave. That was great information! Only, now I'm back to trying to figure out if I should do the Aviation Degree or a BSBA. So considering that I do take the Comprehensive Tution plan, it will cover 36 Credits, and for the rest if I use the cheapest options possible, what would the approximate cost of the degree be? The residency waiver fee also will not be applicable if I do it this way? I'm guessing around 10000$ total, after using the cheapest options for the remaining credits:

FAA CPL - 24 Credits 
Comprehensive tution - 36 credits 
Remaining: 60 Credits ---> Approximately around 20 courses ---> So around 2500-3000$?

Now if we come to the BSBA Degree, I've seen estimates of around 7500$ for most of the degree plans.

@ Dfrecore

Hi dfrecore, I've seen a lot of your posts helping people with degree plans. What do you think the above estimates for cost?

I would say that for 20 courses/60 credits, you can probably do it for $2000 or less.  Since you're international, CLEP/Modern States will be out.  But you can still use the free courses through The Institutes, TEEX (?), and Sophia: ALEKS at $20/mo for College Algebra, Stats and Trig; Saylor at $25/course, etc.  I'm not sure if you can use OnlineDegree or not (?), but lower-level TECEP's are $75, Davar is about $95/course (and they sometimes have specials), and Straighterline and Study.com are roughly $100/course or less if you take more than 2 courses in a month.  So plenty of ways to get that $2000 down.

I would also say that in the next month or two, we'll see if ACTFL renews their ACE recommendations, at which time you could get a ton of foreign language credits for less than $200.  You could fill your Knowledge of Human Cultures, GE Electives, and Free Electives areas with a lot of that if they have your language.