Degree planning help - UMPI BBA vs PUG BSBA

[Jonathan Whatley]

Ok outside umpi and whatnot, do public national universities (the likes of ASU, Purdue, buffalo..etc) accept at least some third party credits ?? And if so i am assuming study.com is the best option since it has those high level classes right?

Mostly no. Not really. At most, some of them will accept a few CLEP exams. That's usually it. It's why we recommend the universities that we do: they are exceptional and accept 3rd party credits.

Heck, some universities don't even accept credits from other universities.

So besides credit transfer which seems barely possible if any when it comes to on campus programs, what's the best way to get a program done the fastest way and relatively cheap? Or you can refer me to other forums that can answer these type of questions

Most public national universities accept credit transfer decently well from other RA colleges, and community college transfer is a common cost saving and sometimes accelerating tactic.

Many traditional college students accelerate and cost-save in advance during high school using AP exams.

Institutional challenge exams, a credit-by-examination program offered in-house by each school, typically run by the academic department for the subject, are sometimes offered particularly for lower level math and foreign language courses.

Taking higher than average course load and taking summer courses are also frequent tactics to accelerate and cost save at a traditional college. Comparing on campus programs, cost of living can be a major differential component of cost in a way it isn't comparing online programs, so this can easily be a much greater source of savings than savings on tuition.

If these tactics seem fairly obvious and commonplace, well, that's because you're restricting the question to how to achieve non-traditional acceleration and cost savings at colleges that follow traditional course delivery, traditional schedules, and traditional academic policies. Not much room to maneuver.

If you want a source of information for acceleration or cost savings tactics for a traditional college, because so much will depend on the specific practices at each college, you might look at online forums for each college, like subreddits or student Facebook groups. For instance, maybe a bit of local knowledge among University X students is that organic chemistry at University X itself is a weed-out course, whereas it's something like accelerable if you take it nearby at Community College Y.

One other thing. Your criterion of on-campus "public national university (the likes of ASU, Purdue, buffalo..etc)," and taking Purdue to mean Purdue flagship, not Purdue Global, would probably include one university with an online competency-based education program we discuss here sometimes: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers a CBE online BS in Biomedical Sciences and BS in Information Science and Technology. There's a decent chance a student could start gathering credit as a CBE online student then transfer to the UWM on-campus program, if they met admissions criteria for the on-campus program, which might be higher. The question probably hasn't come up here before. There's not much interest here in starting in a flexible online format then switching to a less flexible on-campus format, excluding a situation where on-campus work is essential, like online prerequisites to an on-campus health profession program.