RA Universities with low residence

I am trying to put together a list of RA state universities that have low residency requirements. (<36 credits) If you know of any glaring examples, please let me know! THANKS!

 

I can't think of any state university that has a residency requirement in excess of 30 credits. Can you clarify?

 

Indiana University's Bachelor of General Studies requires that the last twenty hours be completed in residence.

 

Yea, isn't the "norm" for most uni's 30 credits?

 

When you say residency, do you mean credits earned through the school itself (by any means) or butt-in-seat residency is a classroom?

 

...while conducting some ongoing research, I found that SACS actually requires their accreditees to require 25% of an undergrad in residence. Many are getting around what I believe was the original intent with online courses but there is still the 25% requirement in-school.

 

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Thomas Edison and Charter Oak come to mind. Excelsior isn't a state school any longer but was. This would imply to me that the accreditors up north don't impose that same 25% requirement that SACS does and means you might have more luck looking up that way geographically.

 

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Bruce (and others)
Yes, I only mean credits earned through the school itself. I asked my question prematurely without doing my own homework first. Background- my brother and I were talking about this, but in our conversation he said that he had never heard of a state university requiring fewer than 36 credits in residence. Since he earned his masters over 10 years ago (he might be foggy on the details, but he graduated from two state universities), and I have never attended a state university, it simply hasn't come up as something for me to look into understanding.
The question swirling around in my mind, would be more regarding which state universities lead the pack in transfer-friendly-low residency bachelor degrees?

P.S. Ignore the 36 credit comment, I mistakenly thought that was the norm, I guess it's 30? (25%) Thanks Coach Turner.

 

36 hours would be 25% of a 144 hour program so that's not out of the question at some state schools. Remember too, there's no requirement that any school accept any transfer credit from anywhere else - this is entirely up to each school.

I recall that members of the Serviceman's Oppertunity College network are supposed to stick closely to this 30 hour/25% rule too or require less.

It's important to remember that what made "the Big Three" important to DL initially was that they were among the very few that didn't require 30+ resident hours. Offering classes online is a relatively new development for these and what set them apart before we had "online" much of anything was their role as assessors of other colleges credit for transfer and degree completion. It's important that, at that time, all three were public "state colleges" and that two of the three still are.

As long as I can remember, whenever military folk would inquire about someplace to send their transcripts to be consolidated into a degree without the 30+ residency requirement - these three were the staple recomendation of education officers and ed counselors. That they offered credit by examination or accepted ACE rec. credits was a secondary benefit.

Note too, while most colleges require 30+ at their school, most colleges also place limits on exam credit, ACE credit, and transfer from community colleges that can add additional burden on those who have accumulated multiple college transcripts. That Excelsior, TESC, and COSC do not have such strenous limits (and have a very flexible degree curriculum) makes them ideal recipients of such transcript collections.

 

Based on what I've seen, I would say that a minimum 30 semester credits is the most common requirement for DL programs.

 

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Ok, very good. This answers my question. I wasn't really asking for me, but more just trying to get some general info, I have four children who I need to usher down this path in the not too distant future!

 

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Thank you!