I'm just wondering if anyone here would know why an online school would cost 40,000 for a year and a half of classes? We use blackboard and have to comment on other peoples posts. We take one quiz a week, which is multiple choice and graded electronically. And the teacher grades the only three papers we have to write for the class. There is about 35 people in each class. So how in the world do they need all that money for a teacher that only assigns reading and grades 105 papers a class? I feel like I'm really getting ripped off and would join the occupiers if they were closer.
You tell me. My actual, phsyical college doesn't cost near that much, and we have our choice, from blackboard classes to lectures. I've never taken an online class, and don't plan on changing that any time soon. Maybe you just suck dick at choosing colleges. You can't blame other people because you're willing to give away oodles of money for nothing in return. Buyer beware.
I chose that college because I have a son and need to be home to watch him all the time. It was the fastest to get into and the only one in the state that had my degree. Either way, pretty much all colleges cost way to much. I really am not looking forward to paying the loans back.
College loans are just a product of the STUDENT LOAN MILL which in itself is driving up the price of a College education for all students. Colleges are raising their fees ONLY BECAUSE these loan mills are giving out ungodly amounts to students to keep them LOCKED INTO THE DEBT for decades! Real colleges don't need that much money, no matter what they say, and ONLINE colleges are just making PURE PROFIT. I know one "professor" who makes a killing teaching as many courses as she can, it's very easy, as the work on her end is minimal. As described above, it's all so automated, she hardly has to interact with the students. And yes, this is precisely the SCAM that many students in the Occupy movement are complaining about. There is NO REASON a good education should cost this much, much less a BAD education at some FOR PROFIT scammy online college. Student debt now exceeds credit card debt and is the LARGEST Bubble in America, besides the stock market and gold. It stands at over $1 Trillion now.
Higher learning is a profit-motivated business and as such is prone to corrupt business practices. On the flip side of that coin is the consumer. The consumer always has a choice. Even if the choice seems limited due to familial status or the chosen subject of study, the choice is still there. I went to a college that cost about $2000 a semester. It was a good school; fully accredited, small class size, professors who took the time to get to know their students, advisors who really cared. It offered online classes and satellite campuses to make things convenient for its students. I was also accepted into a school that costs $20,000 a year. I made a choice as a consumer. College loan scams are corrupt as all hell, as are colleges that charge an insane tuition rate, but that doesn't really negate the ability for the consumer to choose.
Online degrees, I'll warn you, aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Employers don't care why you needed it, just that you "weren't interested enough" to take actual classes. Sad but true: I've seen too many students scammed by those online schools with nothing but debt to show for it. If you want to learn online for no marketable benefit, just surf Google for a while. There are free online schools. Most colleges offer freebie online classes. Study those, or look into a community college. Those are cheap as anything, and usually work with the needs of nontraditional students.\ This is my tenth year undergrad (complicated...), at a University, and even I don't have that much debt accumulated yet.
Yep, all spot on, I think. That's about what my university costs. It's a respected university, and in at least two fields, THE respected university, which is especially cool because those are two really cool and important fields. The student/professor ratio is under 20/1, I'm on first name-ish terms with most of my professors, you can interrupt them in class to ask, or argue, or whatever.... I've never gone anywhere else, but this is really a great place to be by comparison, I'm pretty sure. Then, I know that there are constraints that tell you where you can go. But most universitys will give you a blackboard coarse, no matter where you are, and it's cheaper than what the OP is talking about. And they're probably better than what the OP is talking about. Online universities are total ripoffs, actual universities that have professors that teach normal, blackboard, and partial blackboard classes are the way to go.
