BA Computer Science TESU

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Why not ? It doesn’t matter if you’ve paid for credits 10 years ago or 10 weeks ago. You still paid for them. If I pay $10k for 90 credits 10 years ago and finish my last 30 for $5k. I still paid $15k for my degree not $5k.

Yes there are dozens of people on this forum who have bacs for less than $8k. I didn’t say there wasn’t. What I said was the way the “system is set up now with tesu” 30 credits ra. $525 credit hour instead of $399. Cap and corner Both required. Residency waiver $3200 instead of $2800.  No more coopersmith linear algebra cheap ul credit. It’s much more difficult.

I mean really. Unless you take a 16 credit term you’ve got almost $7k in the corner / cap and residency waiver. Do the math.

It doesn't matter because it's a sunk cost - you paid for those credits whether you do anything with them or not.  I did not say that you don't count them on the overall cost of a degree later if you want - but if you don't get a degree at all, you still paid whatever you did for those credits, and that money is gone.  The correct way to compute a degree at THIS POINT IN TIME though is to figure out how much it will cost going forward to get your degree.  If you choose school A that will cost $5000 or you choose School B that will cost $10k, that's what's left.  The dollars you put into the credits you already have are the same amount no matter which school you choose.
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The system at TESU is set up to need 30cr RA.  Many people have that.  The ones that don't can go get 24cr at ONU or take TECEP's for $900.  That is not some insane amount of money.  It's $50/cr.  It's less than $1000.

The remaining credits can be gotten in a myriad of ways, and for not a ton of money.  If you use Study.com, you can get the remaining credits easily.  If you use Saylor, it's even less.  There's an UL TECEP available.

I guess it's a matter of how you look at things - you can be an optimist/realist and look on the bright side that you can get a degree for less than $10k, or you can whine and complain that it's not cheaper/easier.  Totally up to you.