Degree Planning from scratch for late career software engineer

[christinadq]

You did not say which foreign language(s) he's fluent in, which makes a difference.  If it's any of these, he'll get the most: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.  If it's not, then he's limited to far fewer credits.

Here are the options as I see it:

1) TESU BALS - this is going to make the most use of the ACTFL exam if it's one of the main 8.  He could get 12 UL and 24 LL credits, and they would fill Humanities and Hum/SocSci/His electives in the GE; and 12cr of UL and 15cr LL in the AoS.  He could get any credits that interested him, including getting some Undergrad certs if he wanted (Computer Info Systems, CompSci, Organizational Leadership, Ops Mgmt, Psych).  He could fill his free electives with business courses if he wanted to.  Super flexible degree, but general.  Could still lead to MBA if he wanted. ($6500)

2) TESU BSBA - this will only use 24 LL credits of the ACTFL exams if it's one of the main 8.  Still worth doing, but not sure you'll get the bang for your buck.  The good thing about TESU BSBA is that they have multiple concentrations he can get if interested. ($6500)

3) EC BSBA - not 100% sure how the ACTFL works here, I know they use ACE, so I'm guessing it will be similar to TESU in how it comes in.  If so, and you get 36cr for it, that will be used in the Humanities and Free Electives, and you'll only have 2cr of Free Electives remaining.  No concentrations here without a big price tag, but the price is right ($4000).

4) WGU BSBA - plenty of concentrations; few GE's which is nice for someone starting from scratch (not so good if you took a bunch of GE's in college already).  He can bring in up to 90cr depending on the concentration.

5) WGU SW Dev degree is also a nice option.  He could probably get through it quickly.

6) UMPI BLS w/MIS and MGT concentration - cheap as heck, and a good option for someone who has no credits.  Sophia for most, ACTFL for foreign language and Free Electives, double concentration if he wants.

Just depends on whether he wants a specific degree, and how quickly he wants to work (obviously he'd have more pressure for WGU and UMPI.

I'm not an expert on TAMU and the CBE degree, but there's a thread on here for that.  Worth looking at.  No idea about Sophia.

With the languages he speaks, he should be able to get 24 credits in his native language (they offer two options for testing) and 12 or more in the secondary (they offer 4 testing options for that one).  English is the third language and he has a low level of Spanish as well, but should be able to get 3 credits for that through Sophia or Study.com or something like that.

I am going to dive into TESU's current offerings a little bit with the examples you've outlined.  Thank you for guiding me towards it.