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In 2017, when I applied to all three of the Big 3 Excelsior College was way better than TESU in accepting credits as you can tell I have many non-traditional credits.  I like TESU as they have some funky degrees like Military Technology Leadership that has nothing to do technology and very little to do with leadership, but I wish I had gotten one as it sounds cool to me.  The Excelsior College IT and HSEM (what I just finished) degrees are a better deal, especially for the military.  Excelsior College accepted all my HSEM Gov't school (EMI Resident, NFA Resident, TEEX F2F, etc) credits and TESU did not.  The general Liberal Arts is the most flexible.  TESU has great things also.  So does COSC except it so small and has less cheerleaders here!.

I think it really just depends on whether or not you are bringing in credits - if you're not, then I think TESU is a much better bet.  Also, a lot of times, the credits you're bringing in are not going to be of much use in a BSBA no matter where you go, so that starts to be an issue as well (the OP said he/she wanted a BSBA).

I think it's been said before on here that sometimes, trying to make the courses you've already taken "FIT" into a degree can be more of a problem than just getting a degree from scratch.  You might think that the EC degree is better because they will accept more of your courses, until you figure out that you need so many UL credits that it's going to cost more overall to get the degree because of that.

For a military member who has few credits, and wants to maximize the CLEP/DSST thing, TESU is definitely the better way to go.  Just because of the lack of CLEP/DSST exams that are UL, if nothing else.  TESU is where you'll get the most bang for your buck with CLEP/DSST exams for sure (because they count a bunch as UL when EC and COSC won't).