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CSS Complete | The College of St. Scholastica
Helping you finish your college degree.
Only half of students nationally who start a college degree finish in six years. Along the way, many students accumulate college credits, work experience, military service, training and other learning, but don't have a degree to show for it.
That's where CSS Complete comes in.
CSS Complete offers self-motivated learners with previous college credit a flexible and affordable pathway to finishing a college degree. We evaluate and validate learning acquired through a variety of settings, including massive open online courses (MOOCs), military service or work experience, and transfer credits. A Completion Coach helps determine how your previous experience meets our degree requirements. For many students, it's possible to design a very low-cost baccalaureate degree.
More ways to learn. More ways to earn college credit.
St. Scholastica has a suite of tools to help you demonstrate your mastery of a variety of topics. Combine up to 96 cumulative credits from any of the sources listed below and 32 credits from St. Scholastica, including general education and major requirements.
Transfer Credits
It's alright if you have a few credits from here and a few credits from there. Your Completion Coach will work with you to determine which credits fulfill course requirements and how you can complete your degree most efficiently.
Portfolio Assessment
Your Completion Coach will help you assemble your work experience, military service and other prior learning and evaluate it against course outcomes. You may earn credit for learning obtained on the job, as a volunteer, through MOOCs, or elsewhere.
Challenge Exams
Designed by St. Scholastica faculty to evaluate your mastery of subject matter in a variety of courses, Challenge Exams allow you the opportunity to demonstrate learning and earn college credit.
CLEP Exams
The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP), offered by the College Board, provides you with an opportunity to prove mastery and earn college credit in any of 33 different subjects.
Learn more about how we assess your prior learning
Keep your focus on learning. We’ll help with the details.
Your Completion Coach will be your partner in:
- Creating a degree plan
- Transferring college credits to St. Scholastica
- Identifying alternative paths to credit
- Choosing the right degree program
- Identifying opportunities for financial aid
Example 1
This student completed her AA degree in 2007. A self-motivated learner, she has completed three massive open online courses (MOOCs). Working with her Completion Coach, she can complete her degree through Portfolio Assessment, Challenge Exams and coursework.
$1,824
$6,480
$0
$436
$8,740
24 credits
36 credits
3 classes
12 credits
72 credits
Prior learning
Southeast Community College (NE)
Inver Hills Community College (MN)
Massive online open courses
CLEP Credits
3 years of work experience
Totals:
$1,500
$1,500
$12,640
$15,640
12 credits
12 credits
32 credits
56 credits
At St. Scholastica
Portfolio Assessment
Challenge Exams
Coursework
Totals:
Bachelor's degree bottom line: 128 credits $24,380
Student scenario provided for demonstration purposes only.
Example 2
After a year of community college, this student began managing a restaurant. Several years later he returned to school, juggling online classes and his job--but he stopped after one term. He now wants to finish his degree.
$535
$5,200
$1,260
$545
$7,540
6 credits
26 credits
12 credits
15 credits
59 credits
Prior learning
High School AP
Univ. of WI – Fox Valley
Elgin Community College
CLEP Credits
10 years of work experience
Totals:
$2,000
$500
$20,540
$23,040
16 credits
4 credits
52 credits
72 credits
At St. Scholastica
Portfolio Assessment
Challenge Exam
Coursework
Totals:
Bachelor's degree bottom line: 131 credits $30,580
Student scenario provided for demonstration purposes only.
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Completion Coach.
I had 20 years of experience and lots of credits and education but no degree to show for it.
St. Scholastica helped me plan my Portfolio Assessment. By using my work experience, I was able to gain 28 credits very inexpensively.
Stacia Cohen
St. Scholastica Alum
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