Pierpont C&TC

Overview
Pierpont is a technical college that will give you a Board of Governors (BOG) Associate's degree for "free". There are, however, a few things you need to know:


 * 1) You need to already have 60 credits that you can transfer to Pierpont.
 * 2) 12 of those credits must come from a regionally accredited school. The rest can come from alternate sources.
 * 3) You might not get a transcript from Pierpont unless you enroll and take at least 1 credit with them. As of May 2020, taking a one-credit course at Pierpont costs $480. You can still get a diploma without taking any courses from them. However, if having a transcript is important to you then you could still need to pay the nominal fee to take a course from Pierpont. It has been reported in August of 2020 on the forum that the 1-credit requirement no longer exists and that this requirement was due to a software glitch that has since been corrected.

This can be a good stepping-stone for people who might need some encouragement or who need a degree for work but who won't be able to complete their Bachelor's for some time. If you have 15 credit hours in a particular field, you can also have an area of emphasis added to your transcript.

This degree is reported to be bureaucratically complicated to obtain, so it's not going to be for everyone.

Resources

 * Pierpont information about BOG degree
 * Course requirements to get the BOG degree