Firefighter career change, need help navigating

[davewill]

UMPI is certainly an option for you. They only accept 90 transfer credits total, however, you could apply immediately, take 30 credits from them and be done. It's probably the cheapest (and maybe the fastest) path to a bachelors.

TESU would be another option. Since all your credits are from a community college, you can only use 90 of those credits, you will also have to get 30 more credits. However, since TESU will let you transfer in up to 114 credits, you could get up to 24 of those credits from ACE providers like Sophia and Study.com. The last 6 credits are the cornerstone and capstone courses which must be taken from TESU. You can save about a $1000 by taking 15 credits (including the corner/capstone) from TESU in a single fixed price term, leaving 15 to get from ACE providers.

TESU just costs $50 to apply to, so you could apply now, and send in your transcripts, then in about a month, see exactly how your credits would apply to their degree requirements.

Since you have stats already, I suspect you could get a business degree (from either school) about as easily as a liberal studies degree, but there are people here who can help you draw up the degree plans that would nail that down for sure.