Best AAS Options for Alternative Credits and Lowest Residency Requirements

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I would look at the A.S. in Criminal Justice for $2099 from Ashworth College.

Ashworth College allows you to transfer 75% of the courses for their Associate Degrees (45 out of 60 credits). This means only 5 courses (15 credits) or one semester would need to be taken at Ashworth and you have 12 months to complete them.

This is far easier than UMPI which requires 10 courses (30 credits) and you only get 8 weeks to finish.

Granted this is a NA schools so transfer options are more limited for the 15 Ashworth credits but Excelsior should take them and they can always get their Bachelors in Criminal Justice at Ashworth too.

Have you completed anything at Ashworth? Is there a possibility of acceleration there or is it semester-based? Trying to assist someone on the best (read: fastest) path. Thanks!

Yes and it is self-paced (not CBE) with open enrollment. So you can enroll at any time, start on any day but have to take one class at a time at your own pace. As soon as you are done with that class you take the next one. Each "semester" is 5 courses at a time and you have 12 months to complete them. At the end of each semester there is one proctored, open book final exam on all 5 courses. It is 50 questions long (10 per course) and you need to get a 70 in each section to pass. Local librarians usually offer proctoring for free. Transferring in courses (45 out of 60 credits for an Associates and 90 out of 120 credits for a Bachelors) from Sophia would speed up completion.