Math AS and Data Science Certificate at CC

Our son, who crashed and burned his freshman year of college last year due to a previously undiagnosed disability, is looking at our local CC. Because of the 3 classes he passed last year and a lot of AP credit he won’t need too much for the AS. He should be able to finish it and the data science certificate in a couple of years. I don’t know that this would make him terribly employable in and of itself, but it seems to me that the certificate paired with a BS would. Am I right in thinking that getting the certificate at CC prices would be a good idea? Obviously his disability has nothing to do with math; his senior year of HS he took linear algebra and multivariable calculus.