Besides CLEP, what are some other things I can do to receive college credit in the Army?

2019-02-26T15:21:44-05:00

I'm enrolled in AMU and doing about 2 classes every 2 weeks, and was wondering, besides CLEP, what are other things to receive college credit in the Army?

Response by MAJ Javier Rivera made Feb 26 at 2019 3:31 PM

2019-02-26T15:31:10-05:00

Depending on the school and degree program , you might some credits based on your MOS!

Response by LTC Eugene Chu made Feb 26 at 2019 3:32 PM

2019-02-26T15:32:50-05:00

Off-topic from alternate college credit, but consider changing to a traditional school in lieu of continuing at a for-profit one. AMU recently settled a lawsuit with state of Massachusetts for withholding key information (i.e. graduation rates, job placement, etc.) from its students

https://www.mass.gov/news/american-military-university-pays-270000-for-alleged-failure-to-disclose-job-prospects-high

American Military University Pays $270,000 for Alleged Failure to Disclose Job Prospects,...

Attorney General Maura Healey today announced a settlement with an online for-profit school over allegations that the school violated Massachusetts law by failing to make mandated disclosures to prospective students about job placement rates, violating re

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 26 at 2019 4:04 PM

2019-02-26T16:04:38-05:00

Get your aarts transcript, review it for accuracy, then submit it to a university for college credit. Your aarts transcript covers all training you have completed in the Army. Your education center should be able to help you with this.

Response by SPC Erich Guenther made Feb 26 at 2019 9:12 PM

2019-02-26T21:12:59-05:00

You want to look at distance learning as well. These are college courses you can take at your leisure. Some let you take them on the weekend, others have set times during the week. Set times during the week you can get a 1SG to sign off on barracks time for that if it is only an hour or two of lecture. What I found that overlaps the Infantry MOS is the first two 5 credit Natural Science Geography Courses (10 Credits total). If you can get those via distance learning they overlap some of what you have been trained. One of them is mostly learning how to read a topographical map and recognizing landforms from the terrain lines on the map.......that will actually help you in your MOS, so your 1SG should at least sign off on that one. Second Geography course is identifying makeup of rocks and how they are formed geologically.....mostly new material there but pretty easy and lets face it, you'll see a lot of rocks as an Infantryman. There is a third course which is 3 credit and that is intro to meterology. Again you learn how to read an isobar chart which is the same concept as topographical map except the lines on the map are gradients of atmospheric pressure. You also learn in that course how to predict the weather by looking at clouds in the sky, wind direction, temp changes, etc. Really cool course and probably an easy A for you as are the two geography courses.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 27 at 2019 10:24 AM

2019-02-27T10:24:39-05:00

I would definitely look at a state funded regionally accredited school. Schools like AMU, Post, and Devry aren't worth the paper their degrees are printed on once you leave the Army.
A lot of universities are experimenting with a new type of credit granting. The course material is available for free, and you teach yourself, but you pay a certain rate to test out or have the teacher grade your assignment and grant credit. The pay scheme varies by institution, but a lot of major Scholls like UW and MIT offer something like this.

Response by 2LT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 27 at 2019 10:36 AM

2019-02-27T10:36:10-05:00

SGT Private RallyPoint Member if you haven't already, request your transcript from JST (https://jst.doded.mil) this should list all of you current military education and assign recommended credits for each. You school, at their digression, can convert these to college credits.
I started my degree with 48 credits.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 27 at 2019 10:03 PM

2019-02-27T22:03:44-05:00

if you have not already, start destroying as many correspondence courses and jko courses as you can. I'm going for my bachelor's degree and I would say 30 out of the 43 credits are required for general education came from jko courses.