[alexio senchez]

Hi everyone,

if anyone here needs to build up a some college credits for cheap, take a look at this promo from Udacity (via San Jose State) for some basic college courses: https://www.udacity.com/collegecredit

The courses are given through Udacity but you will get college credits from San Jose State. I signed up for programming and entry-level mathematics – basically, classes I never took in college so these are going to help me get to the 150 credit mark in order to qualify for a CPA.

Alex

[StephAV]

Alex or anyone else, have you completed any of these classes? How were they? $150, the price is right! I'm looking for cheap and easy credits. I'm short about 15 I think.

FAR - 7/13 - 72, 11/13- 74, 2/14- 82!!! Best score ever (for me)!!!
BEC - 1/14 - 75!!! Perfect score! First Pass! YAY!!!
AUD - 8/14 - 80!!!
REG - 5/14 - 72, 10/14 - 66, 1/15 - 78 - DONE FOREVER!!!
I did 5 of the UNA and CPAExcel classes to earn units.

[ipasscpa]

Are these credit considered Accredited? If they do, it's great. I need 22 of them…

North Alabama?

https://una.cpaexcel.com/papp/enroll.html

CPA- VA

[Anonymous]

San Jose is regionally accredited, so once you get the credit from San Jose, it's accredited and will count for anything you need it to. However, if you were wanting to transfer it to a college to fulfill a certain requirement, you'd want to check with your college to make sure they'd count it for that. (Say if you needed an Intro to Programming class, make sure it counts..but if you just need 150 credits, then these will count, as long as they don't duplicate anything in your prior coursework.)

For some other cheap options, I made a post a bit back here: https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-forum/topic/north-carolina-exam-app-denied-contest#post-355190 which covers 2 of the cheapest ways to get credit that I am familiar with. One is basically $532 for up to 60 credits, so for those of you with more than 12 credits outstanding, the FEMA courses would be cheaper. I've got more info in that thread I linked to above. 🙂

@alexio – It looks like it says enrollment closed in May – do you know if they will offer these again soon?

[StephAV]

Yeah, I noticed it was a summer term… Not sure if it was a 1 time thing or what?

Lilla, those FEMA classes for college credit are weird… How'd you find out about them? I'll have to do some more research, but one day of work for 1 credit? YES please! Kind of sounds too good to be true…

FAR - 7/13 - 72, 11/13- 74, 2/14- 82!!! Best score ever (for me)!!!
BEC - 1/14 - 75!!! Perfect score! First Pass! YAY!!!
AUD - 8/14 - 80!!!
REG - 5/14 - 72, 10/14 - 66, 1/15 - 78 - DONE FOREVER!!!
I did 5 of the UNA and CPAExcel classes to earn units.

[Anonymous]

@StephAV I know they sound too good to be true, but I used them for, crap, I can't remember exactly, 12-18 of my credits? Something like that. Your state board will simply see them on a college transcript from TESC, which is a fully accredited college. I have friends who have used a weird program for their degrees which basically specializes in finding ways to complete your degree as cheaply and quickly as possible, and entirely from home (it's a Christian organization that markets themselves a lot to people like missionaries whose kids want an American degree but may be anywhere). Anyway, this organization works a lot with TESC and somehow found out about these credits…and I found out about it from my friends. 😉 If you Google something like “tesc fema credits”, you can actually find quite a few threads on degree forums talking about these. If you would like me to send you a pic of my transcript, with these credits, I'd be happy to do so – just email me – elisabethr90@aol.com

Oh, and not sure if I mentioned it there, but not all of those classes are accepted for credit by TESC. Here's a list of accepted ones from their website: https://www.tesc.edu/degree-completion/documents/FEMA_Independent_Study_course_review.pdf but before actually doing them, I'd just double-check that this list is up-to-date. Or you could do them, and if needed, go back and do a couple again – would just be a couple hours difference either way!

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