Please help a confused person

I'm looking for a correspondence or Internet-based Bachelor's degree in Journalism or Mass Communication. The only schools I have found offering them are Andrew Jackson University, Atlantic International University, and City University. Are any of these schools reliable and if not, where can I get a degree worth the paper its printed on?

 

Perhaps I should clarify... I have 90 or so credit hours from a major state university towards this degree already, but my current location and job make it impossible for me to attend a traditional school. Please help me, I have been researching this online for close to a month, and this message board is the first place I've been where anyone offered straight talk.

 

City University, if you're asking about the one in Renton, WA, is regionally accredited (which is the strongest form of U.S. accreditation). Andrew Jackson Univ. has DETC accreditation which is recognized by the DOE, but may have some acceptance issues at work or at graduate school. Atlantic International University has neither regional nor DETC accreditation.

 

Since you already have accumulated 90 credit hour, you best bet will any of these three schools:
1. Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey http://www.tesc.edu

2. Excelsior College in New York http://www.excelsior.edu

3. Charter Oak State College in Connecticut http://www.cosc.edu

Perhaps former students of these schools that post on this board will give you more advice.

Ike

 

The COSC catalog shows a concentration in communications, also the school has a concentration in individualized studies, in this you choose one or more topics and create your program. It cannot be an existing degree, as with me a degree in prosthetics and orthotics only is not acceptable because that is a degree offered by other university. My degree is in individualized studies with a concentration in Prosthetics/Orthotics and Business. I will need to write a letter regarding the concentration that pulls the courses I have chosen together into a logical order, and not just a bunch of classes.

Dan Snelson
COSC student with 2 liberal arts classes and a special assessment from graduation….

 

Thank you all, I will check further into the colleges you mentioned. You know, for an accredited school, City University has quite possibly the worst name I have ever heard.

 

Thomas Edison State College offers a BA in Journalism. They offer some of the courses and you can pick up the rest elsewhere. With 90 units it wouldn't be particularly difficult to finish it all up in a relatively short period of time.
http://www.tesc.edu


Tom Nixon

 

I think you may be starting a whole new thread on bad names for schools...

Just ask the people that are having to explain Excelsior or Argosy all I think of with that one is a 1950's mens magazine

Touro University International is one of my personal *ya gotta be kidding me* names.

Dan

 

Searching for distance learning programs can be difficult -- if you search for "mass communications" as a phrase, for example, you might well miss programs that are labeled only "communications."

Peterson's -- at http://www.lifelonglearning.com -- is a pretty good place to search for degree programs and for courses. You have to be careful with the programs it turns up; several less-than-wonderful schools have snuck into their database. The course database was created and is maintained by Excelsior College, and it's excellent.

Possible journalism/communications undergraduate programs include:

Communications:
Montana State University-Billings
Thomas Edison State College
University of Maryland University College
Elizabethtown College
Mary Baldwin College

Journalism and Mass Communications:
City University

Bear's Guide lists some additional schools:

Communication: several

Journalism, TESC, St. Mary-of-the-Woods (short residency), Deakin U, Monash U, U Southern Queensland.


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