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[brianb]

The school I'll be getting my degree for Computer Science in ( Maryville University Home Page ) I need 128 credit hours for my undergrad. 42 of those credit hours are in the computer science related courses, I have to go to the actually school for a total of 60 credit hours and my last 30 credit hours must be at the school. They only allow for 30 credit hours of clep exams, 51 credit hours are the general education, and the rest are electives i must take. So I plan on taking clep tests for the 30 credit hours, my question is, if i take more than 30 hours of clep and put them towards a college like Excelsior, does anyone know if i can transfer those Excelsior credits to my college? Thus actually giving me more than 30 credit hours from clep exams? This is probably a question for my adviser, but I'm curious if anyone has ever done anything like this before. If not then i plan on going the route of 60 at Maryville, 30 from clep, and 38 at the local community college. Maryville is a fairly expensive school for me(basically $500.00 a credit hour) so I'm just trying to reduce costs as much as possible and get the general classes out of the way as fast as possible so I can concentrate on the core of my degree. Thanks

[ShotoJuku]

Hello Brian (nice name!) -

I cannot give you any direct information other than to say to give EC a call and speak with an admissions counselor who should be able to answer all of your direct questions. Good Luck!!

[ImustStudy]

Originally Posted by brianb

So I plan on taking clep tests for the 30 credit hours, my question is, if i take more than 30 hours of clep and put them towards a college like Excelsior, does anyone know if i can transfer those Excelsior credits to my college? Thus actually giving me more than 30 credit hours from clep exams?

You can have CLEP (College Board) send your transcript directly to Maryville College. You don't need to enroll in Excelsior College for that. If you aren't going to take any classes at Excelsior and don't plan to graduate from there you might as well save your application fee and go direct to your college of choice.

Any reason you choose not to get your degree at Excelsior? They are very flexible and they don't charge $500 per credit hour. That is what we in California call a "Big rip off" by the way. You can attend some of the veery well known fancy big name schools for that kind of money.

Just a thought.

[brianb]

Originally Posted by ImustStudy

You can have CLEP (College Board) send your transcript directly to Maryville College. You don't need to enroll in Excelsior College for that. If you aren't going to take any classes at Excelsior and don't plan to graduate from there you might as well save your application fee and go direct to your college of choice.

Any reason you choose not to get your degree at Excelsior? They are very flexible and they don't charge $500 per credit hour. That is what we in California call a "Big rip off" by the way. You can attend some of the veery well known fancy big name schools for that kind of money.

Just a thought.

I plan on having clep send my transcript for 30 the credit max Maryville allows, but that is the problem they only allow a max of 30 credits through clep, so if i had more than 30 clep credits i was wondering if it's allowed to apply them to another school then transfer the school credits to Maryville thus giving me more than the 30 max clep credits since it would be coming from another school transcript instead of clep, when you transfer a school credit does it say how the credit was earned? ie; via clep or in class? Also in regards to the fee for Maryville, yes it's expensive, but their scheduling allows for pretty much every class to be taken in the evenings which is why the price is so high, and a computer science degee isn't something i would recommend taking online due to all the languages you have to learn.

[snazzlefrag]

Originally Posted by brianb

I plan on having clep send my transcript for 30 the credit max Maryville allows, but that is the problem they only allow a max of 30 credits through clep, so if i had more than 30 clep credits i was wondering if it's allowed to apply them to another school then transfer the school credits to Maryville thus giving me more than the 30 max clep credits since it would be coming from another school transcript instead of clep, when you transfer a school credit does it say how the credit was earned? ie; via clep or in class? Also in regards to the fee for Maryville, yes it's expensive, but their scheduling allows for pretty much every class to be taken in the evenings which is why the price is so high, and a computer science degee isn't something i would recommend taking online due to all the languages you have to learn.

Brian,

Your plan wouldn't work because the CLEP credits would be listed as such on the reporting school's transcript.

Why not do your computer courses in a classroom setting (at Marysville if you so desire...though I can't help thinking that they are excessively expensive), and then test out of the remaining credits and earn your computer degree at Excelsior (which will allow you to apply unlimited credits from exams and transfers). That way you will have the best of both worlds.

[brianb]

Originally Posted by snazzlefrag

Brian,

Why not do your computer courses in a classroom setting (at Marysville if you so desire...though I can't help thinking that they are excessively expensive), and then test out of the remaining credits and earn your computer degree at Excelsior (which will allow you to apply unlimited credits from exams and transfers). That way you will have the best of both worlds.

Excelsior doesn't offer a computer science degree, they have a computer technology, and the core computer science classes are 42 credit hours, which is about standard anywere, and Maryville requires 60 credit hours at their school, so for only 18 credit hours I might as well get the full CS degree. If there's an easier, cheaper, faster way of doing it, i'm open to ideas, but i haven't found any that have the evening hours here locally in St. Louis that Maryville does.

[Old Rusty Pipe]

If its a Computer Science degree you are looking for, Thomas Edison does have one.

Thomas Edison State College | BA in Computer Science

TESC also has no limit on credit earned via exam. You could still take all the required computer science courses at your local college.