Public State Universities offering Distance Learning Degrees

I was wondering if anyone has come across public state universities offering distance learning and online degree programs? Florida State University has been growing in this area and offers several reasonably costed undergraduate and masters level degrees and can be reviewed at this link for those of you who might be interested. http://online.fsu.edu/

Sadly, I have not found any doctoral programs yet, but this development among state universities is promising in recognizing the legitimacy of distance and online learning. -Mark-

 

The availability of graduate programs (especially doctorates) via distance learning really depends on you field of interest. It appears that there are mor opportunties in the field of education than most other fields. A university with which I am affiliated (La Sierra University) offers completely online masters degrees in Teaching and Educational Technology.

Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Education lists many state universities that offer degrees via distance learning. Many of these require no on-campus residency at all. If you click the "Bookstore" link at the top of the page, you can order it. It is a very valuable (and fun to read) reference to earning degrees.

Although most universities that offer doctorates via DL are private, not public, University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an example of a state university that offers a very low residency doctorate via DL.

Best wishes,

Tony Pina
Faculty, California State U. San Bernardino (which currently offers no online degrees)

 

CSUDH (www.csudh.edu)
UNA (www.colsouth.edu/una)
FAU (www.fau.edu)
FGCU (www.fgcu.edu)
UMass

The list goes on...

 

State Universities with Distance Learning Programs

This development is promising for those seeking bachelors and masters degrees, and perhaps will bring down the costs of other programs through competition and quality. I still await the emergence of distance learning PhD programs from state universities. -Mark-

 

Indiana State University

Indiana State University (ISU) has an extensive distance education degree program in variety of subjects.

 

Re: State Universities with Distance Learning Programs

Mark,

The competition is already happening, but it remains to be seen how that will affect costs (education is always far behind business in this matter).

Check out this online doctoral program at a leading state university

http://plaza.unl.edu/distributed.nsf/pages/doctoral

Tony

 

Thanks

Thanks, Tony! I will check it out. -Mark-

 

Case western is the closest I found in the US. Though their tuition is out of this world, as well as on campus visit every 4 weeks, so I don't consider it DL.

Europe is ahead of the US, they have several.

 

In engineering there are Colorado State and uNiveristy of Alabama in Huntsville. both public, both DL.

 

UMass Online

 

Sadly, it seems that FSU has dropped their Master's in Open & Distance Education that they offered in collaboration with the Open University (UK).

 

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The MA in Open and Distance Education is available anywhere in the world. See http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q02F10_education for details.

Admittedly. the FSU name would sell better in the US, and the current state of the dollar makes it a tad expensive.

Angela

 

Look at the National Universities Degree Consortium site:

www.nudc.org

The NUDC is a group of major public universities offering DL degrees at all levels.

 

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Previously, US students could not enroll with Open University. Has that changed?

 

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Selected courses only, pretty much exclusively those delivered via the internet. The (rather slim) list of courses available in the US is at http://www3.open.ac.uk/near-you/worldwide/countries/USA.shtm and includes all 4 of the Open and Distance Education MA modules. I'm pretty certain that all the modules for the MSc in Software Development are on that list as well.

Angela

 

A quick search on Peterson's identified 600 public colleges and universities granting distance learnign degrees.

 

The only way to fly!

I know this won't be a popular sentiment, but currently I am enjoying participating in a distance learning program at a State university, and to be honest, this is by far my preference. If I had no other choice well then I might consider other options, but I work in the Software Industry that specializes in HR, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Time and Labor tracking, Accounting, etc. My contacts in HR and with HR customers have given me the impression that DL-only schools while they satisfy a screening hurdle are not very well respected. Basically, from what I've heard they divide schools into three or four tiers:

1) Top of the top (Harvard, MIT, etc.)
2) All other RA state and private schools that are not DL-only.
3) RA DL-only schools or DETC accredited schools.

In fact it's been expressed to me that if they could tell the difference, they would evaluate a DL degree from a state university as inferior to an on-campus degree from the same school!

Given this feedback, I made the decision to go to a state university that offers DL education simply because HR
cannot tell the difference and I won't be subject to discrimination (rightly or wrongly.) I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this same course of action to anyone who is newly interested in DL. The only exception I can see is when someone wants to quickly progress to a graduate degree with a State (or top tier) University but first must finish a BS degree. In this case I see the reasoning for the Big Three.

So in response to the original topic of this thread, yippee!!! I'm always looking for additional state schools that offer DL. I'm lucky that I live in Florida where the FEEDS system for Engineering and Computer Science is so prevalent across the state university system.

 

In Rehabilitation counseling, the following schools offer distance masters degrees:
San Diego State
Utah State
Western Oregon State University
Western Washington University
Georgia State University
University of North Texas
Unviversity of Idaho
Virginia Commonweatly University
Wright Stae University
Texas Tech University
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Jacson Sate University,etc, etc

Virginia Commonwealth University has a distance Ph.D. in Health sciences with a major in rehabilitation