Athabasca U - BGS (Guinea Pigs Wanted)

[bjcheung77]

Yes, Basically... That's right, you don't really need to have an Associates though, as long as you have enough RA to get the general education requirements listed above. You can then use any foreign credits such as ENEB with a NACES member evaluation of your choice to get the remaining credits for the Bachelors General Studies.

For those starting off without credits, I would not recommend the Athabasca BGS as you need RA/foreign credits for this degree, they do not accept CLEP, DSST, ACE, NCCRS; Having said that, they do accept AP, IB, Dual Enrollment, etc though. This will work for those who have 'some' RA credits, even the minimum required for general education.

For those who have the 21+ RA credits in English, Humanities, Social Science, Sciences, and you have plenty of Applied Studies from ENEB offerings or Arts/Sciences from XAMK/Metropolia, you can transfer in the bulk of the credits into your degree. The main thing is (and the kicker is), the Applied Studies or the Arts/Sciences both have total requirements of 45 UL credits, 30 UL in either Arts/Sciences or Applied Studies depending on which you select.

It's really a very interesting offering, but the requirements are somewhat harder to get unless you have the required UL, ENEB offerings are perfect for the UL Applied Studies, for XAMK/Metropolia, we don't know if the bulk will come in as UL or not... We won't know until someone tries and reports back, it's different than what we're used to...