Degree Planning UMPI

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Hello everyone,

Recently I posted a thread asking for your advice on how to get a degree using free term at Strayer University. Thank you a lot for taking time to answer my questions!  After reading your answers a decided to take a different route towards my first degree. Could you please look at it and tell your opinion, what is missing, etc.

1) Using free term at Strayer University, I would like to take several courses related to political science and history, and also challenge exams.
2) During winter semester at the same time I plan to study in advance 10 courses that I am going to take at UMPI in order to meet 30 sh requirement.
3) Once the winter term at SU is finished, I'll transfer all courses I've took on Sophia, SDC, at SU (~90cr) to UMPI.
4) Will take 10 courses at UMPI
5) The happy end hopefully 

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!

As a current UMPI student, your plan has some flaws. UMPI accepts up to 30 ACE credits. That is all. 


UMPI has VERY specific gen reqs that you cannot complete on Sophia alone including a foreign language. There are no ways around their gen ed reqs unless you have previously graduated from one of the schools in the University of Maine system.

How long do you expect to take courses at UMPI? Yes, you can complete as many as you can in a term. A term is only 8 weeks long and costs $1,400. The courses have a great deal of content including constant quizzes. Every course ends with a Final Assessment which for most classes is a major paper/project. History and poli sci are all going to be large research papers which you will not be able to complete in a day. 

Studying for a course before enrolling at UMPI is useless. Why? Because the course focuses on the specific content in the course modules not one some books. You paper/projects must include course content and come from the material you learn in the course. This is all laid out in the PDF on your Final Assessment. Every class has this sheet. No point in studying when you're going to be writing a 20 page paper. 

Have you asked UMPI if they accept challenge exams? 

Feel free to send me a PM with UMPI questions.

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Your Sophia credits will ALWAYS be ACE credits through Sophia. They will not convert to credit from Strayer. You will need a transcript from Sophia sent to UMPI for those courses.