I have a liberal arts BA with less than a decade of work experience in customer service and marketing. In high school I’ve never showed much interest in science classes like biology and chemistry. In college I took astronomy, which is the throwaway science course for liberal arts students at my university. How do you think I would do on the CCS if I take AHIMA’s bundle of 13 courses to prepare for it? Has anyone with a liberal arts background taken this route before?

I’m almost certain that I’m going to take the CCS over the CPC because I think the CCS is more straightforward than the CPC is (in content and in practical utilization because the CCS doesn’t have an apprenticeship designation). I do recognize that the CPC have a slight edge over the CCS in respectability since the full CPC I think is slightly more difficult to obtain.

I’d be curious to hear from others with a similar liberal arts undergraduate background like myself. I’m also open to hearing from people with a liberal arts BA who ended up taking the CPC, including those who have taken AAPC’s CPC Exam Prep courses before taking the CPC or the CCS.

Thank you so much in advance!