BA in Eng to another BA in TESU possible?

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  1. Reywork

    Reywork New Member

    My sister wants to earn another BA in liberal arts or whatever She can make use of her credits from her BA in English at an accredited university in the west. Will TESU accept all except for capstone courses or only a max of 60 credits???

    How can she complete this fast and earn a degree of a different kind?
     
  2. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    How about contacting TESU directly?
     
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  3. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    If she already has a BA in English, what use would a BA in Liberal Arts be?

    If one already has a bachelor's, TESU requires an additional 24 credits to get a second degree, so long as all the major requirements are fulfilled. All General Education requirements will be considered complete, even if the Gen Eds of the previous degree don't match up with TESU's normal Gen Ed requirements.
     
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  4. Reywork

    Reywork New Member

    She wants it just for the sake of earning another degree from this school. Is there a way to not have to pay much and use all. Credits and take less classes or if not, a few and earn that degree through TESU?

    Can I take some CLEP exams to cover those 8 courses (aside from the final capstone)

     
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  5. Reywork

    Reywork New Member

    I meant can she also take CLEP exams to cover any of the remaining?

    Apparently, She called TESU and they told her that she needs a minimum of 24 units taken at TESU and some are 300/400 level that aCELP can’t cover. Is there a work around this? Thanks a lot!




     
  6. Reywork

    Reywork New Member

    Or is there any school online that can transfer all credits from a BA in Eng degree to earn a second degree and pay less/do less credits. She isn’t proud of her previous school and achievement and wants to earn it from another institution but not having to pay more or take extra classes unless they’re easy ones.
     
  7. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Probably not. Aside from that I have to say that this whole thing seems wonky. "I want another degree because I want another degree. I want it to be the same but different. I want it to be easy and cheap." There's no clear motivation, no clear goal and no clear pay off. I don't get it.
     
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  8. Reywork

    Reywork New Member

    I’m sorry. She isn’t happy with the degree she earned from that school. She doesn’t want to basically retake all the gen ed if she does transfer what she has taken from previous university. Earning a second degree is something she’ll feel more fulfilled about.
     
  9. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    There are exams other than CLEP.

    DSST - https://www.getcollegecredit.com/

    UExcel- https://www.excelsior.edu/exams/uexcel/

    TECEP - https://www.tesu.edu/academics/catalog/tecep-exams

    Several of the exams are for upper-level credit.

    She should be careful not to think that the exams will be "easy". The exams test knowledge and thinking ability equal to that of what is expected of a student at the end of a semester-long course. However, unlike taking a semester-long course, there are no other grades to pull her up if she fails. She just flat out loses her money and has to either take it again or has to pick a different exam to fill the missing credits.

    Also, if she is unhappy with the degree that she has, breezing through a program she considers easy would be unlikely to make her feel fulfilled anyway.
     
  10. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    You know, it really doesn't matter but I still don't get it. If she's unhappy with the degree she has then how will earning a virtually identical degree from the same school make things better? I know I'm probably just causing trouble but I'd say that rather than taking 24 credits of "stuff" she could take 30 credits of "other stuff" and get a Masters degree in something. I'm just sayin'
     
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  11. Reywork

    Reywork New Member


    Do you have specific classes she can take? She does not want to apply and pay TESU to evaluate her transcript when she is not sure yet. Do you know if someone can evaluate? She just wants a 2nd degree from TESU....
     
  12. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    Which college or university did you go to for the BA English? TESU requires 24 credits in a different subject for a second degree. Many other universities require 30 credits OR more in a second subject of study for a second bachelors degree. Now, a Masters is 30-36 credits. Take your pick, if your school is an online for profit you may want to do a second degree.. if it's from a non accredited or a nationally accredited college, TESU will not accept them, you will have to find another option that will accept nationally accredited degrees.
     
  13. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    Ok, let's talk about the elephant in the room. She earned a degree IN something, and now believes she'll feel more fulfilled if she tests out of a degree without a major - in the exact same level as the degree she already has. And she wants to pay money to do this but won't pay $100 to have her transcript evaluated? Frankly,this is so far fetched, that I'm not even sure it's a real question. But, if it IS a real question, then instead of her earning 24 new credits at TESU, she should earn 33 new credits and do a master's degree (not at TESU, their master's degrees are very expensive.)
    A master's is something she can feel good about since fewer than 20% of the people in this country have one.

    Just my opinion of course, and it's worth exactly what you paid for it.
     
  14. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    I second this, I can't think of many situations where a second Bachelor's degree (if the first is RA) makes much sense.
     
  15. Jahaza

    Jahaza Active Member

    I mean... if you were a philosophy undergraduate like me and wanted to study something like mathematics, a second BA might make sense if you were taking the courses at the undergraduate level anyways and could pick up the second degree en passant so to speak.
     
  16. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Better yet, how about your sister contacting TESU directly?

    I think this is the third tread in the past couple of weeks that begins with, "My sister . . ." You'd think there are a lot of incompetent sisters around that cannot articulate their own questions. Besides, why aren't the competent people of this world writing on behalf of their brothers, aunts, and uncles? (Reminds me of the line, "And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts," from H.M.S. Pinafore. But I digress.)

    I also can't help but wondering, what is the horrible yet accredited university from which this alleged sister graduated with a B.A. in English in the first place? Speaking of which, here's another theatrical moment of note . . .

     
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