Archived For those of you that attended college how did you pay for it? (AskVoat)
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Archived For those of you that attended college how did you pay for it? (AskVoat)
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[–] ArchibaldLacey 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
You can get a college degree for roughly 5k if you apply to one of the big 3, and get the majority of your college credits through CLEP/DSST (formerly known as Dantes). You purchase the test for like 85?, sign up at a local school that allows you to take them, and end up taking an hour test. If you pass, you get the credit. The tests are not that difficult. With the big 3, they will take like 95+% credit from CLEP/DSST.
On top of that, I think you can take FEMA tests for free, and some schools will creatively include those credits into your major.
The big 3 are like: Thomas Edison State University, Excelsior College, and Charter Oaks State College. I know Excelsior tends to be more expensive than the other 2 at like $10k. Regardless, it's the easiest way to get a degree. You can get it in less than a year, and apparently there is some people that have gotten it in a month. If you don't like the bias at schools today, and a degree is just a degree to you, then i'd recommend this method of getting your degree for ease and expense.
Edit: And Dantes/DSST was formerly a test offered to those in the military. I think if you're in the military, you get X amount per year for school studies that you could use on this testing; then after your 4 years of service, you can give the military education to someone else in your family.
[–] ConceptualMan [S] ago
Thank you for the info. I did receive the FEMA certs that I could as I'm extremely interested in emergency management. I did not know about the test out options!