Foreign Schools without Onsite Exams

I found lots of inexpensive schools in India, Pakistan, Philippines, etc. but none of them are like Walden or U of Phoenix that lets the students do all classes online, they require the students to show up regularly to take an exam. Being that I am in America this is problematic.

American colleges that permit students to take courses anywhere in the world are a dime a dozen. Being that tuition is so low in India (I found $25 per course) for distance classes, I am shocked they do not want to compete with the US.

The University of South Africa also requires exams, but at least there are places in the US to take them. There are none near where I live.

Is there anyone that knows of an equivalent to the University of Phoenix in the third world?

 

ya know you just have to do a little bit better than this. you need to say what kind of degree you want (undergrad, grad, etc) and you need to say something about the subject area. Ya see some schools have degrees in this but not in that and some schools have good grad programs but bad undergrad, etc. you know what i mean?

HELP ME TO HELP YOU! (that's are real blatant Jerry MaGuire thingy)

 

Except for joke schools, I cannot find ANY degree seeking institution in the third world for any subject that will let someone be a student anywhere in the world. ALL the ones I came across have exam centers.

I would like a higher degree in accounting, but I cannot find any subject at any third world university that I could use. The reason for my interest is the cheap tuition.

There has to be at least one third world institution that has class structure similar to the University of Phoenix.

Here is an example, the Open University of the Philippines is only $300 per semester for graduate classes for foreign students! Single graduate courses are $60! The catch: The student needs to fly there for exams!
http://www.upou.org/admission/fees.html

 

Hmmm. Not my thing but try the Open U of Malaysia.

 

No.............
Do not do Open University Malaysia!
Undergra programs might be still accredited now. But grad ones are not.
It's written on OUM website.

 

OK, but what does it mean? It seems Malaysian accreditation is some kind of program accreditation, comparable to professional accreditation in the US. This would mean OUM's MBA, for instance, is comparable to a regional accredited US MBA degree without professional accreditation. Or is an unaccredited Malaysian degree from an accredited Malaysian university equivalent to an unaccredited US MBA from an university without RA? And why?

mintaru.

 

No go, I emailed them and they said each course has an exam that can only be taken at their designated locations.

How can there not be one third world university that operates online classes like the University of Phoenix?

 

Considering the UNISA pricetag, it may not be that big of a deal to travel to take an exam. If I was in that position I'd have to go to NYC to take exams. That's a short shuttle flight for me and while I have no real love for big cities I also know that a Bachelors from UNISA is going to cost a LOT less, even if I have to get on a jet once or twice per year.

Plus, here's an unsubstantiated rumor. I've been told that once you are an established student (?definition?) you can petition the university to allow for an alternate exam site. This could be a local school/library/church/whatever. Most people here think of UNISA as a grad school so we've never been able to test this rumor. Ask them. This might mean that you'd have to travel for your first set of exams only and then you'd be able to test locally. It could be worth the time/effort to check it out.

 

May be because those you call third wold institutions are actually better than UoP?
A serious degree should have some proctored exams. Posting some discussions online and solving canned multiple choice open book exams are not exactly "first world" type of education. It just means "do the bare minimum so I can justify your degree".
The UoP might be in the US but that doesn't make it superior to any of the "Third world" institutions you mention. Many "third world" institutions are highly respected and would beat any time a graduate from the "first world" UoP.

 

Would it be realistic to have an examination center in every US city?
I had to travel more than 400 km to do my exams. I don't think it is too much to ask to travel twice a year to a center that might be at a driving distance.
Quality institutions do not offer these deals of post few posts online and do some canned assignments and here is your degree. I think a serious degree should be as close as a face to face as possible and having proctored on site exams give credibility. Yes, UoP has this deal but we all know the reputation of UoP that is what institutions like UNISA are trying to avoid.

 

U of P is certainly not the only school that offers non-proctored exams. For example, I attended Drexel university and I was not required to obtain a proctor for exams.

 

It seems the only real universities I can find that do not have proctored exams and allow the whole degree to be done online are American schools. How do they know who is really taking the exams and doing the work? As a matter of fact, I know someone that took a course for a relative at a state university online course!

Many of these online colleges only require the student to fill out an online form and give credit card info.

That said, there will be some businessman someday that will convince a third world college to do 100% online and then offer degrees like Phoenix for only $75 per course.

 

I can't speak for UoPs on-line degrees but I mentored two fellow employees in statistics who taking UoP Bachelor Business degrees at a local campus they had to take timed, in-classroom, no open book, instructor monitored final exams.

 

I guess most of these schools in developing countries are run by their government - meaning they are not really operating for profit and have no motivation to develop cheap degrees for the rest of the world.

 

You might want to investigate the University of the People
http://www.uopeople.org/

"At the present, University of the People is not an accredited institution. Consequently, we are unable at this stage to accept transfer students who are seeking credit for coursework at another institution. In the future, we hope to be able to accept transfer credits transferred earned at an accredited educational institution for purposes of transfer to UoPeople. The acceptance for transfer of University of the People academic credits is determined by the receiving institutions."

"Currently, University of the People does not confer any degrees. At the present our programs offers a new learning experience similar in its scope and educational rigor to academic studies towards four degrees; An Associate and BSc in Computer Science and an Associate and BA in Business Administration."