need help with degree planning for son for Bachelor's in Business Admin or Finance

[dragonwolf]

Hi, 

Sorry, I am a bit late posting to this response that was a little over 1 month ago, but, I am following up to a post trying to help my son finish his Bachelor's Degree in either Business Administration or most likely Finance. 

He is 20 going on 21 so he is still more of a traditional college age student and figuring his life out. He has about 1.5 years of courses at Youngstown State University in Ohio. He took this Spring semester off to work and figure his life out right now as he did not have a great start to University with the death of his mom and COVID (graduated HS in 2020). 

He thinks he would like to manage or own real commercial real estate or work in an investment firm. Additionally, he is considering law school after his Bachelor's degree and working in Real Estate or Corporate Law.

The traditional path of another 3 years of full time work seems daunting to him at a traditional university. So, we are looking potentially cheaper and/or faster options such as TESU, WGU, SNHU, Purdue Global (has nice Finance concentrations like Wealth Management or Real Estate, but, it seems expensive), or UMPI. From a budget standpoint, I am still helping him pay tuition and I would like to try and stay under $20k for the remainder of his Bachelor's degree.

As directed, I am listing the course #, full course name, # of credits, and grade if less than a C from Youngstown State to get some good options and projected ball park costs for the Bachelor's Degree.

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Course Number/Course Name/Number of Credits/Grade

ANTH 1500 Introduction to Anthropology 3 cr  B
REL 2601 Introduction to World Religions 3 cr A
THTR 1500 History of Motion Pictures 3 cr B
ASTR 1504 Descriptive Astronomy 3 cr B
CHMST 1545 Communication Foundations 3 cr B
ENGL 1550 Writing 1 (same as Engl Composition) 3 cr A
PSYCH 1550 General Psychology 3 cr C
YSU 1500 Student Success Seminar 1 cr A
HIST 2605 US History 1 3 cr D
GEOG 2630 Weather 3 cr C

Credit hour total: 28 credit hours (1 class is below C grade and may not transfer). This leaves him roughly about 92-95 credit hours to earn before he would get about 120 credit hours for a Bachelor's Degree. If he can finish in 1-2 years for under $10k, that would be ideal. I appreciate any recommendations, degree plans, and tuition ballpark estimates.

Thanks,

EducationSeeker

I helped my 20 year old earn a bachelor degree in 15 months using Study.com. He took placement tests to test out of what he already knew which made his classes go a lot quicker. He would focus on watching the lessons and getting 100% on the quizzes (they are 5 questions and the questions don't change) and understanding everything. He would take the chapter tests after reviewing his quizzes (tests only took 10-15 min) and then review with the online flashcards they provide and then take the course practice test at the end. If he scored a 70% or higher he knew he was ready for the proctored final (at home and no need to schedule) If he earned 100% on his quizzes then he only needed a 55% on the final to earn the college credit (only the quizzes and final count towards grade). The majority of the classes had zero papers and for the ones that did (upper division) he had 3 attempts to turn in each paper for the highest grade. Here are two degree plans I created for TESU and Excelsior. 

Excelsior Business Degree Plan: https://bit.ly/3NccxfS

TESU BSBA in Finance Degree Plan: https://bit.ly/3sD08cV