I am planning on doing a post-grad MBA online but they require Accounting 1, Micro, Business Stats, and a Managing Finance and Capital course for non-business majors. It would cost about 4k to obtain these classes from the same institution but I am wondering if there is anywhere I could get the courses cheaper? I already asked and they do not accept StraighterLine or Aleks.
Check Saylor and specially the ACE or NCCRS evaluated courses. You may be able to get some of them for free or much lower cost than most other options.
Given that OP just said that they don't accept StraighterLine or Aleks, I would be extremely reluctant to suggest other, similar approaches like that.
I'm not reluctant because sometimes a school is specific about not taking some things from some places but will accept others outside of that specificity. The only way to know for sure is to ask rather than assume they won't take it.
UMass has a certification designed specifically for non-business majors to qualify for application to their MBA program. I don't know the price but it's a very good brand name and will probably look a lot better to an admissions official that some random collection of CLEP results (for example). http://www.umassonline.net/degrees/online-certificate-business-foundations-dartmouth
That's true. This happened to me a time or two while trying to transfer some courses in the past. One school was very specific about not accepting courses from one program but when I tried it from another program they accepted them even though the delivery method and accreditations were identical. This happens because sometimes a certain program has built a bad rep with a school and they simply won't accept anything from them no matter what. This may be the case here. That said, nobody really accepts Straighterline directly in the first place since they are not an accredited school by themselves, so if I were the OP--assuming he didn't already do this--I would have mentioned first and foremost that the courses are ACE evaluated which pretty much everyone accepts provided that the credits comes on an ACE transcript. There is also the possibility that whomever the OP emailed knows nothing about how this works, simply checked the Straighterline site and determined it wasn't adequate while missing that the courses are actually ACE evaluated. You have to be specific with these schools because as much as we'd like to think they're as knowledgeable about these things as we are, the truth is that most of them aren't and don't care to examine anything beyond what their department guideline has written.
