RA school help

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by ncguy, Apr 24, 2005.

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  1. ncguy

    ncguy New Member

    can anyone tell me if there are any RA schools that take monthly payments?

    thank u!!!!!
     
  2. kelechi

    kelechi New Member

    Hi Ncguy, you did not specify which program you are interested in. Any way North Central University accepts monthly payments. Here is the web address http://www.ncu.edu/ .
     
  3. ncguy

    ncguy New Member

    thank u all,---I am interested in an ass. in bussiness management----i thank all of you for the information and any future replies.
     
  4. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    Google to the rescue

    Good Googling skills can be invaluable in situations like this... that is, as long as the search string is properly constructed so as to find the desired results, but is not too narrow or restrictive in other ways that may cause you to miss them. For example...


    Envision a web page that describes a school's monthly tuition payment plan. Think about words or phrases that would almost have to be on such a web page. Then formulate them into a Google search, as follows:
    • +"monthly payments" +tuition
    As for confining the search to regionally-accredited schools: One might intuit that adding the phrase "regionally-accredited" or something like that to the search terms would do it. But think about the web page that you're looking for. Is it really likely that accreditation and monthly payments would be discussed on the same page? A better way might be to confine the search to web sites with utilize the .edu gTLD in their URL. Of course many such web sites are of universities that are not regionally-accredite and are, instead, nationally-accredited; or, if they were "grandfathered in" from before the .edu registry required that all institutions that use the .edu gTLD be accredited by an agency approved by an agency approved by USDE and/or CHEA then they may, in fact, not be accredited at all. Still, confining the results to web sites that use the .edu gTLD in their URL will sufficiently narrow the search that if you found a "hot one" all you'd have to do, as long as you were on the site, is verify that it's regionally-accredited or you could double-check accreditation on the CHEA web site.

    Therefore, adding a search term to the aforementioned Google string which confines the results only to those web sites which utilize the .edu gTLD in their URLs would be the easiest way to approach it. If so, the above search string becomes:
    • +"monthly payments" +tuition site:.edu
    and said search string would return these results.

    Further refining the results to business programs might be possible by expanding the search string further, as in:
    • +"monthly payments" +tuition +"business administration" OR management site:.edu
    which would produce these results... but be careful: Again, picture in your mind the tuition monthly payment plan web page that you seek. Is it likely that a page like that would also be the same page on which the school discusses its business administration or management program? Likely not. Therefore, adding the business admin and management search terms might exclude hundreds or even thousands of excellent and appropriate pages of precisely the type you seek. So always be careful about too much search string refinement.

    While it is certainly a good thing that people ask about certain kinds of programs or program features here, I have long felt that good Google skills could save people alot of time asking here when they could just find what they need by themselves with a well-crafted Google search string.

    Just my $.02 worth... for what it's worth.
     
  5. spmoran

    spmoran Member

    True, Gregg, but to pick up on a point you have made over and again on this board, then the rest of us wouldn't have the opportunity to see the answer too. I've picked up an awful lot of information that I didn't need at the time because I read a post here. Later on some of the information became useful to me, or gave me a credible place to start looking.

    Regards,
     
  6. Jake_A

    Jake_A New Member

    To some of us, your $0.02 is worth $200. Ok, make that $20, at least. ;)

    Thanks for your frequent and invaluable, good Googling tips. Repetition may help to force 'em to sink in, for some, perhaps.

    Mucho obligado.
     
  7. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    Damn! End-run by my own argument. I hate it when that happens! ;)

    You're right. What can I say.

    Still, good Googling skills are better to have than not to have... for all kinds of reasons.
     
  8. spmoran

    spmoran Member

    On that point I could not agree with you more. Google is my lifeblood at work and school.
     

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