Degree Planning from scratch for late career software engineer

[christinadq]

Now, you've been provided options on the Big 3 and several CBE options, what have you and the hubby decided on?  What appeals to you most?  Review my suggestion, some would shoot it down because it's not the cheapest, or easiest, or fastest, but it's a mix of all 3 and has the ROI/Value...

What may be best is to decide on the degree/school of choice first as mentioned, however; having said that, I would work on credits while deciding on that.  It's hard to plan, harder to decide, but hardest to START getting those credits - what if you keep changing your mind on the degree/school choice later?!

For the moment he wants to aim for the TAMUC program with possibly a backup through UMPI if for some reason that doesn't work out.  He's started on some of the Sophia classes where he has special interest and a lot of knowledge and was able to knock out a few over the weekend.  He started the application process for ONU to do English Comp there.  And he has signed up for the oral tests for two of his languages so that he can have those partially fill the pretty open elective bucket that TAMUC has.  He ordered transcripts to be sent from home and remembered that he took two programming language classes a few years ago at the community college out of boredom, so he ordered those transcripts too to be sent to ONU for applying for the YourWay program for English Comp I and II and also a few extra, sealed official ones to store for whatever comes next.  

I looked at degree planning for both and basically all the hours that will go towards TAMUC will meet the criteria for Pierpont as well.  Using Pierpont as an intermediary for capturing the ACE credits makes sense.  Do you know if you can continue to add credits beyond the 60 needed for the degree after it is conferred if he continues to collect more ACE credits for instance?