SNHU !General Education Requirements Roadmap

General Education Requirement
Here is a General Education Requirements that will work for all degree plans for the Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) as of approximately June of 2023. Please make sure that the suggestions are still valid before beginning to follow this plan.

Alt Courses
The alternative credit courses were handpicked using experience from previous students regarding which courses will be the easiest and quickest to take.

Tips on Order in Which to Complete Courses
Start with Sophia.org. Unfortunately, Sophia only allows two courses to be open at one time, so only complete one course at a time that has touchstones (written assignments). Once done with Sophia, move on to Study.com.

How Long Will It Take To Complete This Degree Once I Finish All the Alterative Credits?
Full time is 2 courses per 2 month term at SNHU and max of 3 courses per term once you done a couple of terms. At that rate, it would take 8 to 10 months to do 30 credits worth of courses.

Source of Credit
This degree plan was made using this source to map out all the alternative credits.

Sophia Equivalents

CLEP, DSST, AP Exams Equivalents and other Alt credit equivalents

General Education Requirements (42cr total)
How the General Education Curriculum Works

Go through and find a course that will meet each learning requirement.

First Year Seminar & Humanities Foundation (6cr)
This section is free electives so you can take whatever you want. The suggested courses are quick and easy.

English (6cr)
Select both courses.

Mathematics (3cr)
Select 1 of the following. While it's possible other math courses may fit here, it makes the degree plans easier to figure out if statistics was placed here. Some degrees requires MAT243 which means you need both MAT240 & IT140 to satisfy the MAT243 requirement.

Fine Arts and Humanities (EFAH) (6cr)
Select 2 of the following

Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESBS) (6cr)
Select 2 of the following

Business Administration or any degree with a business core requires Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.

Science, Technology, and Mathematics (ESTM) (6cr)
Select 2 of the following

Computer Science major requires Calculus (MAT225) and Precalculus with limits (MAT142).

BA Information Technologies major requires Intro to Quantitative Analysis (MAT136) and Applied Statistics for Science MAT243.

Mathematics major requires Calculus (MAT225) and Discrete Mathematics (MAT230).

History (EHIS) (3cr)
Select 1 of the following

General Education Electives (EGED) or History (EHIS) (3cr)
Select 1 of the following

Be sure if you select a history course that it doesn't overlap the with the previous section

Culmination/Integration (3cr)
Select 1 of the following

As far as I know, no alt credit course can transfer in here so you must take at SNHU. *To copy this degree plan, hold down left mouse button, drag to select tables, then copy/paste (CTR+C/CTR+P) to Sheets or Excel.