Shortest Path to Bachelors in CS?

[davewill]

It is certainly possible to use the credits from your undergrad and graduate work to secure a CS bachelor's. In the case of the graduate work, all of your courses will probably be considered upper level. TESU will consider it a second bachelor's, but they allow that. Your first bachelor's will excuse all of your GenEds, including TESUs cornerstone, plus the individual courses in all of your transcripts will be evaluated and applied to the program.

In TESU's view, there's no such thing as "coursework not applied to a degree". They only look at whether the credits were earned before or after the last degree was conferred. TESU requires 24 new credits earned after the last degree was conferred for a second bachelor's, but I would guess that is not a problem since your master's work would probably be after the bachelor's, and I assuming you finish the BACS before you graduate your master's program. You will have to take courses to fill in whatever degree requirements your existing transcripts don't fulfill at TESU, plus take their capstone course.

You want to be careful that you don't trip over any policies that your grad program may have. I would be very up front with them about what you would like to do. This isn't meant to scare you off from trying, I would expect there to be no problem with the plan.

Steps:

0. Talk to your Grad program advisors to make sure there are no problems with using your grad credits to get a BACS while completing their program.
1. Post a more detailed list of your coursework so we can give you specific advice.
2. Go ahead and apply to TESU ($50) and send in all of your transcripts. If there are more than two transcripts, sign up for a 1cr TECEP test ($52) to secure enrollment. It's not necessary (or desirable) to take the test, it's just a hack to get enrolled student status. This will get you an academic evaluation showing exactly how all of your credits transfer and what you still need in order to finish.
3. When you find out what's missing, use alt credit providers like Sophia and Study.com to fulfill anything that's missing.
4. Take the TESU capstone course, and graduate.

Expected TESU fees:

Application: $50
1cr TECEP: $52
Capstone: $1635
Residency waiver: $3354
Graduation fee: $298