Does anyone know if Excelsior grants credit for FEMA EMI courses like TESC does? I asked them but never received a reply.
Based on my conversations: Excelsior will award credit for the FEMA EMI courses if you have them transcripted by an RA first. Otherwise, the FEMA EMI courses are not ACE reviewed and FEMA EMI isn't an RA university so, Excelsior will not post credit for them. There are two colleges that have a standing agreement with FEMA to award credit for these IS courses. One is Frederick Community College at $60 per semester hour and the other is Clackamas Community College at $40 per quarter hour. On the face that looks about equal. FCC gives 1 sh for each course (except 9, 100, 700) -- CCC gives 1 qh for each course with more exceptions than Frederick. IS9 is 2sh at FCC. Now, when transfering quarter hours to a semester hour transcript, the general rule is to multiply quarter hours by .66 At FCC, 6 semester hours will cost you $360 At CCC, 6 quarter hours will cost you $240 but you end up with 3.96 semester hours or maybe a round 4. To get 6 semester hours at CCC you'd have to buy 9 or 10 quarter hours at $40. FCC is roughly $40 cheaper on 6 semester hours than CCC and you get hours without odd ".99" totals. Now, let's work with 10 courses for 10 semester hours. If you put them on an FCC transcript, that will be $600. If you take 10 semester hours from a moderately priced ($250 an hour) school then that would be $2500. FEMA + FCC then equates to a potential savings of $1900. I'm going to submit a FEMA EMI transcript directly to Excelsior without asking the question of will you and force the written reply. I will then post back here what the result is. Maybe if everyone enrolled in Excelsior who has FEMA coursework will just submit the transcript -- Excelsior will catch on and just award credit...
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I appreciate the information and look forward to contributing to this newly found resource on distance learning.
http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18705&highlight=fema It is a complete waste of money to take FEMA courses to Frederick Community College or Clackamas Community College in an attempt to obtain RA college credit. Thomas Edison State College will give you more credit, for less money by far. Thomas Edison gave me 38 credit hours for a total cost of $250.00 (military discount/$350 if not military) when I opened a credit bank account. I had a lot of courses and that gave me the credits at $6.58 per credit hour. I am transfering these credits now to Excelsior. I have a link here to a previous thread I did on the subject. http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18705&highlight=fema
You say "am transferring" -- I'd be interested in knowing the results once they're placed in your status report. I'm assuming that they are all "applied professional" but would like to see how they go once done and whether the question the indirect transfer from TESC. If that works then TESC credit bank is indeed the most cost effective direction.
Hello, After a battle with Excelsior they have accepted in transfer the FEMA credits that I had evaluated at Thomas Edison State College and placed in my TESC credit bank account. Further details can be found on these threads. FEMA EMI credits and TESC http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=197304#post197304 Thomas Edison / FEMA / Credit Banking http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18705&highlight=fema Michael Gates .
