[barcotta]

If you want fast AND accredited, I recommend Excelsior college. You may not get much of a tuition reimbursement but it doesn't cost much either. It sounds like you don't have any credit to start, but you can likely transfer in anything you do have--Excelsior is great for that. It's also easy to figure out how to transfer things like your labor relations experience to college credit via testing.

Scour this forum for info re Excelsior's liberal arts degrees and then decide if you want to test out of as much as possible before even enrolling (using basic info you can find here) or if you want to enroll so you have an advisor. That only matters in terms of cost. If you wait until you're almost done with the degree--you can guarantee you'll only have to pay one year's tuition (about a grand) plus the costs of the CLEP and DSST tests (just under $100 each usually) and Excelsior tests (around $210 each).

If you want fast, sign up for instantcert now and begin studying the Sociology flash cards--now--as in right now. Your life will be flashcards until you're done and the next hour you spend watching TV could have put you an hour closer to your degree. In the meantime you are also spending a few hours on this forum reading how others have done it and putting together a rough degree plan. In a week or two you'll be ready for the CLEP sociology test--you'll take it and pass--and you'll have three college credits. Only 117 to go! Then you can start stacking related tests and taking more than one at a time.

It's not unheard of to complete 12-15 credits in one day using this method. If you can put the time into studying and can retain quickly--you are only 40 tests away from your accredited Bachelors degree--and since you already passed Sociology, make that 39.

I think you'll have trouble beating the Excelsior/Instantcert combo for speed and cost.

Good luck.