Alternative for those with limited time

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WGU has a 6-month payment package. TESU does not. You could take your own time, complete courses outside of TESU, and transfer the credits. Of course, you need to take the Cornerstone and Capstone courses at TESU only. Many of us here complete our TESU degrees in 9-12 months.

It is becoming harder to complete a TESU in 9-12 months. Because you need 100 credits before registering for the capstone, and the 3 months the capstone takes. It would basically involve earning 100 credits in around six months time graduate to in a year or less. The reason I said six months is because you would need time in order to sign up for and take the 3-month capstone and graduate on time. This is doable but not easy, especially if you have no prior credits and don't have time to dedicate to schooling.

When I first found out about the big3/degreefourm it was 2013 and a different time. There was no capstone or cornerstone and many CLEP/DSST were UL and some were easier. (Here's to Your Health comes to mind) People got degrees from scratch in 4-6 months. There are old posts talking about this.

With current policies, a year (from start to conferral) from scratch would be pretty much the minimum one could get from any the of the big 3 and I suspect it would only get harder in the future.

It really depends on where people are starting.  When I came in, I already had 72cr from 3 different schools - and ALL of them fit into my degree at TESU.  So someone like me may be able to get 42cr plus the cornerstone and capstone in 6 months.