Hey, my local community college is a Sophia partner; Does anyone know if its possible to transfer in Sophia courses, earn my associates at the CC, and then transfer to a state school that wouldn't usually accept ACE credits?
Their PhD in Business is about $7,300 at the current exchange rate. But their DBA is far more expensive than the one at Asia-E-University.
What were the criteria I looked for?
1. Proper state accreditation
2. Proper, established institution with a name that sounds like an actual place offering doctorates
3. 100% online
4. English program
5. Not a strongly religious institution
If you want to obtain an MBA but don't live in the US to benefit from the HAU offering, Cyprus is the best option to gain a fully accredited online MBA in Europe.
The price is about 4-7k$ in total for an accredited 18 month MBA. In contrast to most EU masters, some schools let you graduate without having to write a master thesis.
For a lot of them, Brive offers a discount or at least shows the price of the program which is not always listed on the schools website.
This is a fully accredited swiss public university offering 100% online bachelor and master degrees in psychology, law, history, economics (including data science in the master), and mathematics.
Most degrees are taught in English, some in German/French.
A full bachelor is about 12,800$ and a full master is about 7,700$.
Swiss public university degrees will be recognized in almost all countries in the world and having a European university offer English 100% online degrees is a very unique find (that I had been hoping for for a long time).
Another big benefit: In contrast to Germany, they seem to be accepting NA degrees.
I applied to their Master in Economics, Business and Data Analytics with my University of the People BSc in Business Administration and got accepted.
I understand signing up for a TECEP (such as Medical Terminology) will keep me in enrolled status for 12 months. Is that 12 months from the start date, or 12 months from the end of that semester?
In other words, the Medical Terminology TECEP shows in my attendance from 4/1/2024 - 6/23/2024. I'm still slowly chipping away at courses outside of TESU to transfer in, if I want to stay in the catalog year I'm enrolled in, do I need to do another TECEP before 4/1/2024 or do I have until 6/23/2025?
With the new different Capstone versions, is it not possible any more to get a single Bachelor's degree with an Area of Emphasis (or whatever TESU calls their Majors in the BA degrees) in something like History and Computer Science combined?
For those who have done a Masstercursos program, what was your experience?
I know there are already threads for Masstercursos but there is very little talk about experience.
I have to take the required American Government POS-1100 class, and I wonder if anyone knows if any of the teachers assign projects instead of exams. Are there any teacher recommendations or anyone I should avoid for this class ?
I know there are a lot of info in the Wiki and here but I think my main doubt is a bit different.
I’ve been researching ways to get a U.S. bachelor’s degree without spending a ridiculous amount of money (exchange USD x BRL = 1:6), and I wanted to see if anyone here has experience with this. It’s crazy how expensive tuition can be, especially when you’re paying per credit. But I noticed that some universities, like TESU, allow students to transfer up to 90 credits, which means you could do most of your coursework elsewhere and only pay for the final part of your degree in the U.S.
Basically, this is the main reason for this forum.
From what I’ve seen, there are two main ways to do this.
The first is taking alternative credits (in the USA and paying in Dollars) through programs like Saylor Academy, Sophia, CLEP, and Study.com. Some of these are incredibly cheap, and Saylor even offers free courses where you only pay for the final exam. Sophia is subscription-based, so if you work fast, you can knock out a bunch of courses in just a couple of months. CLEP exams are also a great way to get credits quickly without taking an entire class. The downside is that Study.com, while convenient, gets expensive over time, and CLEP exams, though cheaper than university courses, still add up if you’re taking many of them.
The second option is earning credits in a cheaper country and then transferring them through an international transcript evaluation service. Services like WES, ECE, and others can assess your foreign credits and convert them into the U.S. system. The evaluation process usually costs between $150 and $250, depending on how fast you need it done and which service you use. The advantage is that education costs in many countries are way lower than in the U.S., so if you can take equivalent courses abroad, you might save thousands of dollars.
The downside is that international evaluations take time—sometimes weeks or even months. Plus, not all universities accept every credit, so you might end up with fewer transferable credits than expected.
That said, if the process works smoothly, it could be a massive cost-saver compared to paying full U.S. tuition prices.
I’m curious—has anyone here actually done this?
Is it better to just grind through Sophia, Saylor, and CLEP to get cheap credits fast, or is it worth the effort to transfer international credits?
Any recommendations for the best evaluation services or universities that accept a lot of transfer credits from foreign countries?
