Does anyone know of this school? They are accredited and legit. I am looking for someone who has taken any classes and are they beneficial? All comments are valuble ------------------
They are a legit brick & mortar RA school, with a traditional campus in New Orleans & a satellite campus in Metairie offering nite classes for working adults. They are part of the La state system (like LSU & La Tech) & have resident/nonresident rates. I think you can take some of LSU's DL courses & have them apply towards a UNO degree.
As for their academics, my wife took a few teacher certification classes from them. She found it more challenging than Nova's classes (which their teacher certification program appeared to be a glorified diploma mill with RA trappings), which she attended when we lived in Florida. UNO is a state school with a fairly open admissions policy, so its not Tulane or Harvard, but you can learn a lot if you choose to apply yourself (or in the alternative, coast if all you want is the paper).
I investigated their low-residency M.F.A. a year or so ago. They're legit and regionally accredited, but I seem to recall the program requiring some residency sessions in Prague, which pretty much removed the whole nearby-college advantage (I'm a Mississippian). I remember being impressed by the list of instructors, though, and the curriculum looked interesting. Peace, ------------------ Tom Head www.tomhead.net
Very intersting classes in cross dressing, bead tossing, and Mardi Gras etiquette. Seriously, though there is nothing wrong with the school. If I remember correctly they are a 4th Tier National University. North
If I remember correctly, they began life as LSU's New Orleans branch, and later spun off to become an independent state university. They are the most prominent state university in the N.O. area. As to why the "fourth tier" rating, probably two reasons: As a spin-off, they probably don't have the variety of doctoral programs and the established research reputation of the home campus. And since they developed as an urban extension of an established campus, they probably admit a lot of part-time and adult students. It is kind of a fact of life that distance education and "fourth tier" are closely linked. Distance education is a way of making education available to the wider community. In practice that means serving part-time adult students. But that also means more students that do not complete a bachelors in the same time-frame as full-time on-campus students and who are not admitted on the basis of their highschool SAT scores and GPA's. Since USNews selects for traditionalism in higher education, and stigmatizes devations from it as being of lower quality, the kind of schools that emphasize DL will almost inevitably be in the lower tiers. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad. It just means that they do not primarily serve a bunch of 18-year-old high-school overachievers studying full-time on leafy picturesque campuses.
