Ashworth University, Penn Foster?
What other colleges are accredited & inexpensive & online?
Now, before answering this question, be sure that your facts are straight & not something that you "think" is right.
2007-10-14 15:44:52 · 2 answers · asked by 2 makes 1 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Taranto, so I am a single divorced mother that works 6 days a week at a News paper. I want to get a degree. The only way I can do it, is online.
Heres what I see: 1. If I do decide to go online, than anything I take WILL NOT be thought of as crediable. 2. If I don't dump 80,000, into a year of studies, then I am wasting my time.
Thank you!! I have decided to NOT go to college, because it is more important to pay my bills & feed my child than it is to support that kind of thought in Colleges.
2007-10-14 15:58:21 · update #1
as a matter of slight correction; Excelsior College is a private. It used to be a public and still is a member of the University of the State of NY (as are all legit colleges in NY) but it is a private university now.
Ashworth and Penn Foster are nationally accredited by DETC. I've taken courses from Ashworth and they were useful for what they were (vocational courses) but they are not the same as a regionally accredited (RA) college academic course of study.
The least expensive online option for you will be the community college system in your own state. There is, in all likelihood, an online component of your state public community college system. That's where you should look first considering your needs.
2007-10-15 08:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by CoachT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should realize that there is a difference between 'accredited' and 'respected.' No online universities are respected.
As for inexpensive -- these are For Profit universities and are more expensive than respeced public universities. But there are other costs. Even if you could find one with a low tuition, you have to think about the opportunity cost of having a degree that no one respects. If you can't get a good job when you graduate, is it really worth the tuition even if it is inexpensive?
You are better off going to a public university. Many of them offer some courses online .
2007-10-14 15:50:14 · answer #2 · answered by Ranto 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋