Liberty University?

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<p>Hey guys, so here's my story (my apologies if this is in the wrong forum). So I'm a student at bunker hill community college in Boston. I will be graduating with my associate degree in accounting in the spring. My goal is to find an entry level accounting job while going to school part-time to finish my bachelors in accounting. I feel as though I made a mistake by majoring in accounting for my 2 year degree as I should of just majored in general business. General business is a transfer degree while accounting is more of a degree to help you get a job. It seems as though very few colleges will accept my upper-level accounting credits (such as intermediate accounting) as transfer credits into there school. But there's nothing I can do about this now, so I just have to make the best of it.</p>

<p>So my school of choice would, ideally, meet the following criteria:</p>

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<li>inexpensive</li>
<li>accept most of my college credits for transfer</li>
<li>have an online accounting degree option</li>
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<p>As I said, I want to work while completing my bachelors. I know its going to be tough finding a job with just a 2 year degree but I'm hopeful that I can get lucky. As such, I think an online degree would be the best for me because I'm a self learner. I've taken a few online classes at my school and gotten A's in all of them. Pretty much every in person class I've taken, I've slept through the lectures, then went home and read the stuff myself and ended up getting an A in the end anyway (3.9 GPA as of now). So I think an online degree would be best for me, but I don't want to go to one of those for-profit online schools like University of Phoenix or Devry, as I've heard they aren't very good and most employers won't take the degree seriously</p>

<p>As the title suggests, one school that I'm very interested in is Liberty University. The reason is that it meets most of my criteria. It seems pretty inexpensive compared to most online schools, an unofficial transfer credit evaluation done for me by them stated that I should expect 55 of my 61 credits to transfer into their accounting program, and they have an online accounting degree option. Also, they appear to be a non-profit, which leads me to believe that they may be better then the University of Phoenix's and Devry's out there.</p>

<p>I'm just posting this basically to get some help and advice from you guys. I've heard mixed things about liberty (some positive, some negative), and I'm afraid that I'm gonna graduate $1000's in debt and not being able to get a job to pay it off. I know its not the best school in the world but it seems like the right school for me. I know its VERY religious, but I can live with that.</p>

<p>Will I be able to get a decent job with an accounting degree from liberty university? My goal salary is about $50,000. I don't need to make a ton of money to be happy, just enough so that I can pay my bills and have a little bit left over for myself. This just seems like the only school that will except almost all of my credits (not even 100% sure that they will, as obviously the evaluation was unofficial). I just always thought that a bachelors degree in accounting from pretty much any school could land you a job, although obviously job prospects are better for those who went to better schools, is this a correct assumption?</p>

<p>Any other help or advice on my situation is appreciated, thank you!</p>

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<p>I’m guessing most four year brick and mortar schools won’t even think about accepting your upper level accounting classes as transfer credit for from a cc for their upper level accounting classes. If schools accepted your cc upper levels, you would be getting an accounting degree from them by taking few or no upper levels from them, and they aren’t in the business of granting ugrad degrees in subjects in which the graduate hasn’t even done any coursework. Beyond both intermediates, tax, audit, cost accounting, adv financial accounting there aren’t many upper level accounting classes to even take. Most people that spend two years at a cc are working on gen eds and lower level accounting and business classes, then transferring into four year institutions, where they can network and take advantage of their career services office. Networking and a good career services office will likely be non-existent at Liberty, and that will probably make it extremely tough to get a good accounting job.</p>

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<p>Liberty is a fine university.
However since you mention that you have a concern about acceptance of you accounting classes, let me suggest that you call them ASAP to see just how many credits they will accept.</p>

<p>Next, I have another school suggestion for you - Thomas Edison State College. It is a brick and mortar college in NJ that is quite affordable. They have a well developed online degree program which sounds like what you are looking for. [Thomas</a> Edison State College](<a href=“http://www.tesc.edu/]Thomas”>http://www.tesc.edu/)
This may be a better option for you as it is not a religious school and will not have any required religion classes (from your post, I am surmising that this is not your cup of tea).</p>

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<p>Wow thank you both for the responses. Yes, the religious stuff isn’t my cup of tea (no disrespect to anyone here who’s into stuff like that). I mean I can certainly deal with it if necessary but this thomas edison school seems like a good school that I need to look into. I think a lot of it will come down to how my credits transfer. But I’m definitely looking into it, I’ve already emailed admissions.</p>