Help, Quick BA or Fast Business degree?

Hello,
This is an excellent resource and now I'm interested in your opinion of my situation. Reviewing my courses below (approx. 87 hours college, 69 military) what is the quickest route to a BA or BS? My second option is a BA or BS in Business related fields. I may receive tuition assistance from my employer for undergraduate "Business classes". I'm interested in investing and finanical planning. There is a side of me that would like to just get the BA quickly, maybe through testing and then move on to my Masters.

Thank you!!

1. Military training:

USAF 32450 Precision Measuring Equipment Tech.
EDP 1712 Princ. of computer oper.
ELT 1701 AC circuits
ELT 1702 DC circuits
ELT 1772 Wave generation/shaping
ELT 2765 Digital principles
ELT 2790 Solid state power supply
ELT 5728 DC/Low freq. ac meas.
ELT 5729 Waveform analysis
ELT 5730 Freq. measurment
ELT 5732 Solid state principles
ELT 5733 Solid state amps.
ELT 5734 Test equipment troubleshoot/repair
ELT 6723 Hi rel. solder/connection
MEA 2716 Precise time/freq. sys.
EDP 2729 Microprocessor technology
ELT 2710 Test equip. lab
ELT 2765 Digital principles

2. Exams taken in 1986 without prep, would do much better today:

Humanities 04189: FA-43, LT-39, Total-396
Intro to Management TC018: 39
American Govt. TE001: 37
Analysis & Interpretation of Lit. TC004: 47
English Comp. 01180: 509
Natural Science 02186: BS-41, PS-52, Total-457
Hist. of W. Civilization since 1500, SC458 : 61 (DSST exam)
Social Science and History 05185: 481

3. College:

U. of Maryland:
Eng 101
History 156
History 157

U. of Phoenix:
Eml 299.1 (taken for AA degree, writing course)

Central Texas College:
Eng 2309
Tech. Math 1300

City Coll. of Chicago:
Math 111

Honolulu CC:
Theater 201
Geography 101
Philosophy 100
Geography 102
Psychology 100
English 252
Science 121
Speech 151
Anthropology 150
English 250
Sociology 251
Math 100
Religion 150
Economics 130
Economics 131
ICS 140 (critical thinking/logic)
Law 200

Hawaii Pacific U.
Management 1000
Accounting 2000
CSCI 3201 - micro applictions for mang. (Excel, Access)
Marketing 3000
PSCI 1400 - Political system, U.S.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

 

You could try Excelsior College, Charter Oak or Thomas Edison (The Big Three). For a fee, Excelsior will evaluate your credits and tell you what courses or tests you would need to graduate, before enrolling. If you're planning on getting a masters degree quickly finishing you BS is likely the best way to go. I entered Excelsior with only a few more credits than you have now and was finished in a short time and quickly enrolled in a graduate program that I expect to finish in Dec. If you're in a hurry the Big Three schools are the best. I can recommend Excelsior based on my personal experiences as I'm sure others on this forum can about their experiences with the other members of the Big Three.

 

Tuition increase - TESC

Good Morning, I expect to see a tuition increase shortly at TESC. If you are considering it an option I would act quickly. Hille

 

Hey Lapu Lapu,

My crystal ball tells me you're in the USAF. It also tells me your are either a PMEL, BMET or avionics puke like me. Also, since you are looking for a quick bachelor's, my balls tell me you're either a SNCO who needs a BA/BS to help get promoted, you're about to punch out, or maybe you recently did. Of course, I could be wrong on each count...

But if not, I was in the same boat as you and even had some of the exact same "ELT" courses you had. I came here and 10 months later I'd earned a BA from Thomas Edison State College.

Check out this thread:
http://www.degreeinfo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1346

Then do a search on "BA in 4 Weeks".

I highly recommend TESC. And if you're still on AD, you will pay in-state rates no matter where you live. I don't know why base education centers keep TESC and other "evaluation-type" schools such a secret. Maybe they want to maintain the captive audience atmosphere that on-base schools enjoy.

Good luck anyway!

 

D'OH!!!!!

Never buy a second hand crystal ball from Madam Cleo!!! Sorry, Lapu Lapu!

 

WOW! That flew over my head a mile high!

precision measuring equipment tech means calibration guy in militarinese right?

Did you go to Boluxi for school? I think that is where our cal techs went (Marines, I think, went to an Air Force cal school)

Best Regards,
Bill

 

I was in a similiar postion. Several military credits, college credits, CLEP credits, and Microsoft exam credits. I looked at TESC, Excelsior, and COSC. I went with COSC because they were so easy to work with. A BS in Individual Studies from COSC allowed me to use 60 general ed credits and 60 elective credits. If you need a more detailed breakdown of required credits, contact COSC.

 

I meant to write my ball tells me... Otherwise, I'd be wrong all the time!