Are there universities that has no limit per semester/year

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  1. uni3993

    uni3993 New Member

    Hello,

    I'm looking to get a Biology Bachelors in one year. To do this I need a university that allows enrollment to unlimited courses for one semester/year. Does such a university exists?

    Cheers
     
  2. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    Competency-based programs let you take an unlimited number of courses per term, but none of them are in biology. The closest would be Western Governors University's Bachelor of Art in Biological Science, which is a teacher preparation program. You'd have to do the whole student teaching thing for a semester. Other options would be to test out of most of your degree. Thomas Edison State University offers a BA in Biology and a BA in Natural Science and Mathematics. Excelsior College offers a BS in Natural Science with a concentration in Biology. Charter Oak State College offers a Bachelors in General Studies with a Concentration in Biology.

    They'll accept 114-117 credits in transfer. You can complete almost all of TESU's BA in Natural Science program with CLEP, DSST, Uexcel, TECEP, and other credit-by-exam programs and self-paced courses approved by ACE or NCCRS for college credits. The BA in Biology will require courses that you'll have to transfer in from other schools such as UC Berkeley Extension or University of New England. With Excelsior's program, you can test out of the general education requirements, free electives, and some of the science courses. You can take the rest of the science courses at Excelsior or another college. At COSC, they'll award 24 credits for the Biology GRE Subject Test if you score at least at the 40th percentile, but you'll still need to take some of the requirements at other colleges.
     
  3. uni3993

    uni3993 New Member

    Hello man thank you for your reply it's been very helpful.

    https://www.charteroak.edu/catalog/current/ug_prog_study_degree_requirements/subject_area_concentrations/biology.cfm

    Here it says that for charter oak it only GRE will suffice it doesn't talk about other courses from other universities. Am I interpreting this incorrectly?
     
  4. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    If you're asking whether COSC will accept in transfer courses at other colleges and universities, the answer is yes. They will also give you transfer credit for a high enough GRE Subject Exam score, a decent CLEP score, or through a portfolio evaluation (this one is hard, though).
     
  5. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Hundreds of schools offer non-resident courses, either online or old-fashioned correspondence in the mail, as well as credit for prior learning experiences. There is no limit to how many of these you can take at one time. (A given school may have a limit, but they don't check with each other.). Over the years, I've heard from hundreds of readers who have taken ten, twenty, thirty or more courses at a time, then applied them all at a single school. During the years I was doing marketing for the MBA of the Edinburgh Business School in the US, there were a few people who took all nine required courses and 27 hours of exams in six weeks, and thus earned their MBA for less than two months of course work. And then there was the famous Walter Breen, onetime husband of Marian Zimmer Bradley, who enrolled at Johns Hopkins University under four different names, and took a full load of courses under each name, amassing the necessary 120 un its in nine months, and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. These are extreme measures . . . but you're asking about extreme measures. Good luck.
     
  6. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Damn Daniel! That's extreme! Didn't the guy have problems though because he registered under different names?

    :smile:
     
  7. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    I take issue with your "to do this I need..." statement. I think most people here will agree that the FASTEST way to earn any degree is through testing. I tested out of my AA in 6 months, and that was in my spare time. My AA & BA together took 18 months, but what slowed me down were classes. I was enrolled at 2 colleges simultaneously because I got burnt out on testing, and in order to fill a requirement through testing, you're going to be exceptionally limited, and I liked choosing my classes as opposed to being stuck with ABC exams.

    Do colleges limit the courses you take? Generally yes. But, there are loopholes. Besides John Bear's suggestion of multiple colleges, you can of course implement testing as well as any one of the zillion ACE evaluated course options like Straighterline, Study.com, etc.

    Bachelor's in Biology? That's a brick wall. Biology degrees require no less than Gen Bio 1 & 2 with lab, and those are sequential. Your Bio 1 is at least a prereq for the rest of your major, so the math doesn't work. Have you considered an alternative to "Biology" perhaps "Natural Science" instead? That allows simultaneous study of multiple sciences at a time (Bio 1 in the same semester as Chem 1 and Physics 1) knocking everything out at the same time.

    I've never met anyone who did an entire science major in 1 year, so if you can do that, more power to you. I can't hit "send" without asking if you're planning to apply to a health occupations graduate program....coz that changes everything.
     
  8. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Abner: Damn Daniel! That's extreme! Didn't the guy have problems though because he registered under different names?

    John: Apparently not. Nothing illegal (at least at that time, late 1950s). Breen was an odd one. Besides marrying Bradley, he was Mensa member #1 in the US*, philately editor of Encyclopedia Britannica; he wore his Phi Beta Kappa key as a zipper pull on his pants. And he died while an inmate at San Quentin prison.
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    I was #3, which is how I met him, once.
     

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