Associates Degree Question

[ctcarl]

TESU & EC are WAY too expensive for their AA's - TESU is $5097, only $1557 less than a Bachelor's there.  EC is $5300, the same price as a bachelor's degree there.  And, if you wanted to get a BA after your AA, it would be another $1590 for the capstone (you have to take a capstone for the AA as well).

COSC is one where there are minimal fees for the AA - it's $1,717, so not terrible.

If I was going to get an associate's (or advising someone like my son perhaps, who may go that route prior to enlisting if that's what he ends up doing), then I would suggest the Snow College competency-based AS.  It's $1743 for a 4mo term, and you can possibly get all 60cr there during that time.  If you thought that maybe you couldn't do it that fast, it would be worth bringing in Sophia/Study.com/CLEP/DSST credits first if you wanted to.

The added bonus is that if you wanted to go to COSC or TESU later, you'd have the RA credits fulfilled.  For TESU & EC, you'd have 60cr, and most line up well with their GE requirements.

And since it's an RA school, the courses will transfer just about anywhere.  There's nothing really oddball in there that will make life difficult later on.

That's an excellent point.  I was trying to understand why one wouldn't just go with COSC, but an AA from Snow could have significant advantages down the road.