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If you are going to get an online degree, go to a regionally accredited brick and mortar school that has an online component. UoP and the like are very expensive. Shw would be better off going to a local CC and then transeferring her credits.
In a word, NO. Online degrees are completely worthless and University of Phoenix is the worst of the worst. The only thing you'll get is a load of debt and a good laugh from any employer who sees that name on your resume.
An over generalization that is simply not true. While there are certainly online degrees that are suspect and unaccredited, many good, regionally accredited schools offer online degrees now.
A for-profit on her resume, regardless of the degree, is going to look far less attractive than an AA from a community college, or a BS/BA from a state university. That's just the way it is.
For-profit schools are seen by most people as the absolute last line of defense for people who burned all their academic bridges in life and are therefore unable to attend a traditional college or university.
A for-profit on her resume, regardless of the degree, is going to look far less attractive than an AA from a community college, or a BS/BA from a state university. That's just the way it is.
For-profit schools are seen by most people as the absolute last line of defense for people who burned all their academic bridges in life and are therefore unable to attend a traditional college or university.
I concur with your first point. As far as your second point, for some that is true. For others, they simply don't know any better. A kid I used to work with was attending a for-profit. I talked to him about cost and accreditation--things he hadn't even researched--and he dropped out of the for-profit after I explained to him he would get so much more for so much less at the local CC.
In a word, NO. Online degrees are completely worthless and University of Phoenix is the worst of the worst. The only thing you'll get is a load of debt and a good laugh from any employer who sees that name on your resume.
Online degrees from for profit schools are worthless.
I am actually a strong supporter of on line learning from reputable universities. I know someone who goes to Worcester Polytechnical Institute for a Masters in Environmental Engineering and the set up is excellent. You can log in and view the class in real time, where you can type your questions. OR you can watch it at your convenience. Homework is scan to PDF and email, I think he has to go in twice a semester for exams.
Think about it, how many times have you been studying and wished you could go to a video of the class and fill that hole in your notes? Its an advantage that a 100% class setting doesn't offer.
The only drawback is these programs are very expensive because they are catering to working professionals, whos companies are paying part, if not all. Last time I checked the going rate is $1,000/credit.
If you decide that a place like U of Phoenix is right for you, you have nobody to blame but yourself when it doesn't work for you. Basically, if a college's credit doesn't transfer to any other institution, it's a garbage school.
If the school, as a whole, is accredited by a national organization, look elsewhere. The good, respected accreditation organizations are regional - for example the North Central Association for the midwest and rockies, the Middle States Association for the mid-Atlantic, etc.
Programs are accredited by national bodies: AACSB for business schools, NAAB for architecture schools, etc.
Some "real" schools have extensive online programs, for example the University of Maryland.
Some "real" schools are need-blind too. For example, if she went to Stanford and her parents made less than $100,000, her tuition is covered by their endowment. If they make less than $60,000, her tuition and room & board are covered.
Other "real" schools that aren't need-blind will give her a financial aid package that will alow her to go to the school she wants to anyway.
Correct. If it's an accredited program offered by a "real university," then I might find it ok. University of Maryland is generally a good school, and I've seen their ads here and there. Then it depends on the curriculum, so AACSB for business, ABET for engineering, NAAB for architecture, etc.
I don't care for University of Phoenix. If it has to market that heavily, then... I have a friend who graduated from there, with marginal grades to boot, and he knows next to nothing. In closing, it has to be bolted onto a "real university" (read: state school or well-known private school) and make sure that, if the field is accredited, it is accredited by the applicable national body.
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