Degree Advice for Transferring Associate into Quick Bachelors? Thanks!

[Missled]

First, Excelsior does accept Sophia credits. But they're picky about which ones they accept and Sophia credits are only LL. Not super useful for someone who already has an an Associate.

That said, fastest/easiest will be whatever most interests you. For instance, the BABA Management & Leadership degree at UMPI is generally one of the fastest degrees, taking some students only 1-2 sessions (2 or 4 months) to complete. But if this subject matter bores you or is otherwise difficult for whatever reason, it could wind up taking 3 or 4 sessions.

If you can finish a UMPI degree in just a couple of sessions, it will be substantially cheaper than an Excelsior degree. 3 UMPI sessions + Sophia would come in under $5k. I'm not sure that SDC + Coopersmith (and maybe LawShelf) plus the required 7 Excelsior credits would also do that.

Looking more into it after reading your comments it seems a general consensus that UMPI may be better suited for me given the information I've given you which I really appreciate! Reading some of the forms it seems that UMPI requires a lab and foreign language I've read it best to take Spanish 1 at Sophia for that but since my chemistry and physics classes were both labs would that technically count as a lab or does UT require a lab to be taken in one of UMPI's courses? So what I would be doing at UMPI would be pursuing the at your own pace program correct? Is there specific dates that the sessions start and end or is it I start whenever registered basically? Thank you

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Excelsior accepts Sophia credits and they aren't picky at all about them from what I know.  They also have the easiest GE requirements to meet by far, and don't require any RA credit (although you already have plenty so not an issue for you).

Here's what you need for the EU BLS:

Sophia
Ethics
Intro to Management (UL)
2 LL courses in anything

SDC or Coopersmith:
6 UL courses in SocSci or Humanities
1 UL course in Anything

Excelsior
Info Lit (1cr)
Cornerstone (UL)
Capstone (UL)

Tuition and fees for 7cr - ~ $4100
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TESU is also good, here's what you need for the BALS:

Sophia
Sociology
Ethics
3 LL AOS courses with a 200-level or higher equivalency (Visual Comm, Business Comm, Ancient Greek Philosophers, Conflict Resolution, Public Speaking, Stats)
4cr of Free Electives (any 3cr course plus a 1cr course)
I'd probably do a couple of extra courses, maybe College Algebra and College Math would be easy, because I can't remember if Trig and Precalc are the same at TESU.

SDC or Coopersmith (plus 1 particular LawShelf course)
5 UL courses in the AoS (so Social Sciences, Humanities, or CompSci)

Tuition and fees for 6cr - ~ $6700
OR
Tuition & fees for a FT/FR 15cr term there - $4300
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Here's what you need for the UMPI BLS:

Sophia
Biological science (Human Bio or Nutrition)
Sociology
US History I or II
Spanish I
Intro to Ethics
a 1cr course

UMPI
Hands-on Art
9 additional courses (6-7 will be in the minor; be aware that the EDU minor will take longer than the Mgmt minor, it's more work)

$1500/term, and you can prob finish in 2 terms, or even 1 (not common)
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I would choose UMPI, because it will be the cheapest if you can finish quickly.  I would also NOT choose the Education minor, because you will probably have to do those courses via an alt-cert program anyway, they won't take your college coursework in place of that (I was doing Teacher's of Tomorrow and you had to go through the entire program, no waivers).

Thank You for the detailed description! Looking at it now UMPI may be best choice for me in what I'm looking for in regards to time and cost. From Rachel above stated I'm probably going to go with the Management & Leadership degree as she said it's one of the more faster degrees. Definitely going to take your advice of not taking the education minor as teachers of tomorrow is exactly what I plan on using to obtain my alt-certificationI really appreciate you listing the coursework I need! As soon as I knock out those remaining credits I need to hit 90 with Sophia I plan on starting moving straight on to UMPI. Since I don't know much about UMPI would you say 5 classes per session is manageable given their type of coursework, I've taken 5 classes before together but never at a "At your own pace" layout haha. Anything else I should know about UMPI or pretty is it pretty self explanatory?

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@Missled, even though you only have 5-6 months residency in Texas, you should plan your remaining credits and see how long it would take you to get those credits.  If you're into education, it really doesn't matter which degree as long as you get the degree and any requirements they need for that degree completed.  If it takes you say another 5-6 months to get all the prerequisites before you start TAMUC, then delay that, you can take some courses on the WIKI for cheapies/freebies...

Thank you! I will definitely see how long it take to get my remaining 10 credits at Sophia and see whether TAMUC is a viable option. Really wish I had moved here sooner haha because the pricing and program is really great with TAMUC but at the moment it seems EU is out and from what the comments have read UMPI is most closest to what I'm looking for )