He only has to complete 6 classes to graduate with his bachelor's. Just last week I had a SSG tell me he had just finished his Associate Degree with Excelsior College, and when he applied to one of their bachelor programs, they gave him almost 30 additional military training credit hours. Both of these schools are quite liberal with their transfer credit evaluations for military training. While you're still researching, I would recommend checking out the Homeland Security and Emergency Management programs as Excelsior College (Private College) and Thomas Edison State University (Public College). Don't get wrapped up about going to AMU, they're not a particularly great school and there are better options for you. If you go into you can search for degrees that are aligned to your MOS. Conversely, most schools will only grant about 12 SH, or if they grant more, you might not pick a degree where your classes meet the requirements of the degree. My degree was in line with my MOS so I was able to be granted 40 SH of credit because my medic AIT covered the medical classes needed for most of my degree. For instance, I went to Coastline Community College where they will accept up to 40 credits. Each college has a limit to the maximum number of credits they'll accept in this matter and they are usually only counted as electives, so it's even more limited.
What you receive is a "recommendation" for possible credit that your university MAY give you, depending on the university and the degree program you've chosen. You don't receive any college credits for AIT or anything in the military unless it is part of an accredited program by a college. While their peers are working on their bachelor's, they are just getting close to finishing an associate's. I know many others who are regretting having passed up the opportunity and are making up for it now. It took me 8-years after finishing AIT to get my priorities together and finish the AAS, but if I hadn't obtained those previous Cochise College credits from AIT and ALC, I would have been SIGNIFICANTLY further behind. Cost-wise, it costs you only about $50 or so (might have changed), versus the common $250 per credit ($5000 for 20 credits) that it costs the the government in usual Tuition Assistance funding. 20 credits is about 7 classes (3 credits per class), which can be the equivalent to about 14-months of effort once you're at your first active duty unit (if you take consecutive single 8-week classes). It will save you a significant amount of time and money in the long run, as long as you actually finish the degree and progress to another. You can still possibly transfer those credits to your current school. SPC (Join to see) Whatever you do, don't pass up on the credits that Cochise College will offer you on the multiple occasions you will go through there in your career, regardless of the school you are attending at the time. While the last 15 were worthless toward the already completed AAS, they can still potentially count toward a Bachelor's degree, of which mine did.
Years later after I had already completed the AAS, they awarded another 15 resident credits for completion of SLC (varies per MOS). Then when it came to transfer credit, they awarded a total of 32 transfer credits from AARTS, which were a combination of Basic Training, Airborne School, WLC, and other AARTS related stuff some of it overlapped though. Later they awarded 10 resident credits for ALC (varies per MOS). I went through 97B (35L) school in 2004 and Cochise College awarded me 20 resident credits (the amount varies per MOS). On the transcript, it's as though you took the classes directly through Cochise College.
Upon completion of the military school, those who signed-up pay the Cochise College representatives about $50 or so and they award a specific amount of resident credit toward their Associate of Applied Science in Intelligence Operations Studies. Cochise College representatives show up at the early portions of the course and you can voluntarily fill out their enrollment paperwork. For 35-Series MOSs, the local Cochise College on Fort Huachuca awards direct resident credit for AIT and NCOES schools.
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