I attended college a while back and finished 3 years of my major. The university does not offer any associates degrees in any of its areas of study. When I look for associates degrees from other school, they have a requirement for minimum units taken at their school. However, for those programs I have completed all classes except maybe 1. So, I can't enroll in those schools either. Does anyone know what I can do to have something to show for the 3 years of school work that I did?
There are three good schools that specialize in exactly your sort of problem. Called the "Big Three", or "assessment colleges", they are Charter Oak State College in Connecticut, Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, and Excelsior College in New York. They focus on degree completion for those who have a lot of credit already, and also who are good at earning credit cheaply through tests rather than courses. One can earn a degree from these three special schools by transferring in almost all of the credit required. Check them out!
What Steve suggests, or suck it up and bang out the in residence credit. We are talking AA/AS here so taking more than one course still works for you, just be sure it classes you can later use towards your BS/BS. There is no/little residency in any of these: Thomas Edison State College: Online Degree Programs Same here (1-2 course required, my Alma-mater): Completing Your Degree - Charter Oak State College Both regionally accredited of course. If you already have 3 years completed you may be much closer to a bachelors than you realize...depends on the credits.
You may wish to inquire with Athabasca University. The last I knew they had a Bachelor of General Studies and the degree requires 90 credits. The only thing is just as with the other schools mentioned you would need to make sure the credits being transferred in are courses that will meet the degree requirements. This is something you can look into. A Bachelor of General Studies is going to be a little bit better than just an Associates degree at least it is a higher one. The other advantage is there is no residency requirement at least the last time I knew.
I have moved this thread from the Introductions forum in hopes that it will get a little more attention.
