Transcript hold at college. How to finish CS degree elsewhere?

[HawkofDarkness]

Hi all, I would love to hear some advice. Approximately 6 years ago I transferred from a community college to Northeastern University in Boston. At the time I was on financial aid as well as had tuition reimbursement from my job to help provide for college (my workplace paid for 2 courses a year of college if you were a part time worker, and 4 courses a year if you were full-time, all at the end of the semester or term). And with Northeastern at the time you could pay the balance at the end of semester.

Unfortunately part-time through the semester I lost my job among many other coworkers, and the office I worked in was dissolved through company restructuring as it was bought out by another company. I finished the semester as it was already past the date of refund, but that left me with a $10K unpaid balance, which remains on my record.

I eventually found another job much later but was forced to drop out after that semester and now I want to go and finally complete my Bachelor's. I wish to complete a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and I would like some advice.

Because of the transcript hold, I am unable to officially apply to any college that requires that I must give all OFFICIAL transcripts. I am still able to obtain an unofficial transcript from Northeastern but am unable to send the official one until I pay the 10K balance. And frankly I don't care about the credits I received from Northeastern at this point.

Are there any online programs that you're aware of which do not require all official transcripts to be submitted in order to become a student? I am still eligible for financial aid as well as Pell Grant, and will be paying out of pocket for other expenses which is why I'm looking for affordable options this time rather than a private school, where I was relying on my company to take on the extra cost.

From my research I know that I can do University of London Bsc in CS, and possibly an overseas online program since they don't require it. However those programs are not eligible for financial aid (which is fine if the overall cost is reasonable).

Are you aware of any regionally accredited online program which doesn't require all official transcripts? Or an overseas school which is reasonably priced, and in English for Computer Science? I'm starting to wonder if just starting on the Coursera MS in Data Science from Boulder would be more cost effective in the long run since they also don't require transcripts, though I'd have to do a mixture of loans/paying out of pocket.

Worst case scenario which I'm fully willing to do is to take out a 10K loan to pay Northeastern immediately in order to settle this matter and get that transcript, however it'll take me 1-2 years to pay off with my current salary, rather than being able to pay it off more leisurely after finally graduating and getting a better job.

Any advice is appreciated and thank you.