More news on Excelsior taking NA credits....

Good points Ted. I think I will email Excelsior on Monday and run it by them for an exact answer.

Thanks for the input!


Abner

 

Oops, I meant to say thanks beholdweb! Sorry.


thanks for the info.


Abner

 

Hey Abner,

I am in the exact same boat that you are. I have about 7 classes left to take at CCU for my degree.

I don't know if it's kosher to do this; if it is not, I will not do it but I wonder if I could do the following:

The CCU degree program is independent with no set schedule for classes. Since I have about 7 classes left, I was considering finishing up several more and then requesting a transcript be sent to Excelsior for evaluation. If Excelsior takes those credits and I can CLEP or take the final number of classes to finish an Excelsior degree, after all of that is done I will just take the last five classes or so from CCU and then get that degree as well. I think that is what you were talking about in your post.

If you speak to Excelsior, please let me know what they say. If it's not too expensive, I may put my CCU studies on hold and enter Excelsior's program.

 

Exactly! I will email Excelsior tonight or tomorrow. If and when I get a response, I will post it. At this point, if it works out I will go for it. If not, then I will finish up my CCU degree for now. No harm, no foul.

Have a good weekend!

Abner

 

To stay legitimate and honest in keeping with what are generally accepted practices and common when discussing second bachelor's degrees:

Your first bachelor's degree will be 120 semester hours more or less no matter where you get it.

Although a bachelor's degree only requires 120 hours, when dealing with a second bachelor's degree the requirement is roughly another year of study or 150 hours.

A second bachelor's degree could be more than 150 hours total in the event that you can't transfer at least 90 hours into that second.

More issues to consider:

Generally speaking, if you have a bachelor's degree with a major then you can't get a second one in that major without some good reasoning.

Most schools will also have a problem with you getting a liberal studies/general studies degree at the same level if you already have one with a major. This would be the reason to get a BSLS first and then a degree with a major.

Bottom line is that you will need somewhere around 150 semester hours for 2 bachelor's degrees and 180 for three.