I'm looking for online schools, unfortunately not all universities or community colleges offer 100% online courses and my mom does not have the time to attend a class in person.
Any ideas?
2007-11-03 07:08:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
While all schools don't offer their degree 100% online, most do now teach online. Some offer more courses than others.
For an associates degree, what she could do is take online classes online at any regionally accredited college (I like Louisiana State and Brigham Young University because they're both good and inexpensive) and then transfer those to one of the "Big Three" assessment colleges for the degree.
Excelsior College http://www.excelsior.edu
Thomas Edison State College http://www.TESC.edu
Charter Oak State College http://www.COSC.edu
each of these is regionally accredited and accept nearly 100% of the degree in transfer credit.
This way, she could take classes anywhere either online or in class and transfer them to her home school. If she wanted to take an English class online at Harvard and her math classes at UC-Berkeley, she could do that. It also allows her to be able to take classes in anything - some schools don't teach everything she might want to learn but there is a school somewhere teaching anything you want to learn. This way, you're not restricted to just what's offered at one school.
These colleges also allow you to test out of any class. If she already knows all about English composition - she can take one test for 6 credits of freshman English. (CLEP/DANTES/ECE/AP/IB/etc...) and they don't limit the number of hours you can test out of.
Of the three, my favorite is Excelsior College but then, I have a Bachelor of Science from Excelsior College. ☺
BTW - online classes don't take less time than regular classes. They just don't require that you go to a classroom. An online class from a good school will be harder than the same class in the classroom.
2007-11-03 09:25:01 · answer #1 · answered by CoachT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kennedy University
2007-11-03 13:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by smittybo20 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The CalState and SUNY system offer many online Associate's.
2007-11-03 08:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by Erica B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋