Getting College Credits for Military/Work/Life Experience?

While your military and work experience may have been valuable to you (and the country), it counts for nothing with accredited college programs. CLEP and challenging courses are your only option, and there are unit limitations about how much you can do this to apply to a degree. Basically, you'll have to take nearly all the classes to get credit for them. I had 20 years of experience and was at the top of my field, when I decided I wanted to teach the subject at colleges. My experience counted for little, except that I knew that most of the professors were unqualified to teach the subject, since most of them started teaching straight away after getting their PhD and wouldn't be able to get hired for a real job if their lives depended on it. But that's how the system works. You have to get the approval of the system to prove that you can do what the professors say, regardless of how wrong they are. The good thing is that most adult students do much better than the average college kid, so getting straight A's isn't very difficult.