Resource How to get a U.S. Bachelor's degree for under $10k

[NumbItAll]

One of the reasons people may want to ctb is due to a lack of job prospects which could be caused by having no college degree. Unfortunately college costs are utterly insane and most of the courses are completely useless and irrelevant to the area of study. Well there is a much cheaper and easier alternative that doesn't seem to be well known, which is testing out for credits and then transferring them to a fully accredited university. I don't know what alternatives, if any, are available for other countries, but this post is specifically for the U.S.

https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Degree_Forum_Wiki

I used that wiki and the associated forum to build a degree plan and obtain a BSBA in CIS in about a year for under $6000. If you are not a lazy sack of shit like me, you could actually finish much faster than that. The degree options are a bit limited if you want to "test out" for all of the credits, but even if you wanted to do something more hands-on, you could still save a bunch of time and money by testing out for the general education requirements of your degree. It does take some research, resourcefulness, and communication with your school to plan all this out, but it's definitely worth the effort. In my case, I could have never gotten a degree the "normal" way because of the massive time and money commitment, as well as crippling depression and anxiety issues.

I think it's ridiculous that it basically costs tens of thousands of dollars just to read some textbooks and have some assholes grade your papers, so I wish more people knew about this cheaper method of acquiring credits. If you are in the U.S. and think a lack of degree is holding you back, maybe this can help? If not, feel free to launch some tomatoes at me and storm out of the thread. ;)

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

I would prefer to see a large social change in education and employment than people continuing to go into debt at all. With nations pushing more and more people into college, the explosion in the number of degrees in the market, as with many other commodities, has greatly devalued degrees. More and more companies in Europe and Australia are looking at job candidates blind to degrees as employers globally continue to report dissatisfaction with graduates' work skills. I think so long as people keep pursuing (and paying for) more and more degrees despite workforce saturation, high graduate under- and unemployment, heavy cheap H1B competition for science & tech positions, degree inflation (soon the master's degree will be the new high school diploma)... things will get worse for graduates. Of course, the glut of graduates works great for corporations who can then exploit supply-demand to lower salaries and maintain access to a highly "educated" surplus workforce.

Just my two cents.

 

[JustAboutDone]

Love the line:

"Storm out of the thread"

@NumbItAll :-)

 

[LiveSlowDieFast]

I hope this can help people as well. Just by how many people are forced to game the system in various countries shows how ridiculous said systems often are.

I feel if I lived in the US I couldn't be bothered to read through all of that though, to be honest. I guess that would probably also depend on how desperate my situation was.

 

[Mrs.O'Leary'sCow]

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/201...hile-high-school-grads-line-up-for-university

Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor's degree.

"All through my life it was, 'if you don't go to college you're going to end up on the streets,' " Morgan said. "Everybody's so gung-ho about going to college."

So he tried it for a while. Then he quit and started training as an ironworker, which is what he is doing on a weekday morning in a nondescript high-ceilinged building with a concrete floor in an industrial park near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.