TESU "Residency Waiver Fee" now "Edison Accelerate Fee" that saves you money!

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Excelsior used to be their main competition since they would take NA credit and used to take 113 transfer credits, but UMPI needs to increase their degree offerings before they become serious competition and the 104 transfer credits vs 90 with UMPI is still a significant advantage. UoPeople is not a threat to any school as once people learn that it is a ChatGPT mill no one is going to take their degrees seriously.

I am cracking up at the ChatGPT mill comment.   If uopeople were truly free, I’d give it a go, just to see how much I see ChatGPT in the course materials.  I can spot a ChatGPT answer a mile away.  I see it in my courses’ DQ every single week. I can usually tell even when people clean it up a little.  Don’t they have proctored courses as well though?

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I noticed TESU mentioned that only 6 RA credits are required instead of 15 RA credits. Were those guidelines the same for the residency waiver fee as well?

adding to bjcheung77's info:

RA credits are not the same thing as "how many courses you have to take at TESU"
RA = Regionally accredited courses.

TESU requires you take 15 credits (used to be 16) from TESU unless you pay the "waiver fee" (new name = accelerate fee).
6 of those 15 required credits comes from SOS1100 and capstone.  if you want, you can pay a fee instead of doing the other 9 credits at TESU. 

Last time I looked, TESU requires 30 credits of the bachelors degree requirements to be from RA (Regionally Accredited) sources (6 will come from TESU with SOS 1100 and capstone). That happened around the time my degree was conferred. It could be different now.  Example, I had 24 RA credits from community college to transfer.  rest from ACE/NCCRS/clep kind of sources. 


Note: “residency waiver” is not about “in state vs out of state tuition”. I wonder if that confusion could have played a small part in the name change. ?

You have a good point about how a “residency waiver“ might be perceived.  I have seen it discussed here many times.