Is degree totally online

I live in New Jersey. I would like to do a totally online degree. Actually, I already have about 40 credits from a new Jersey school, but I would like to do online .

How much is the tuition?

Anyone know the cheapest (totally online ) associate's degree? One where the degree is fully transferable to bachelors (fully accredited)?

By the way, is this school fully accredited?

 

NCU is totally online and cheaper than most of the others. I am attending there and I like it. It's regionally accredited which is what you want. I'm not sure it offers an AA degree; I think that a bachelor's degree is the lowest it offers. Here's a link:

http://welcome.ncu.edu/start.htm?kid=GOG0038355329&cookieMonsterVisited=true&visitor=5W%2FwulT72kYHmmfhJ%2BauAA%3D%3D

There's a number of other good ones. I'm sure the other members will post some of them.

 

You live in NJ so TESC should meet your needs. Here is a list of degrees that they offer:
http://www.tesc.edu/677.php
Let us know what subjects you want to pursue and you will gets suggestions on completing your associates degree.
To earn an associate degree you need to earn another 20 units or so - many could be obtained though challenge exams such as CLEP or DSST
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/exams.html
http://www.getcollegecredit.com/resources.html#factsheets

 

This reminds me of an episode of M*A*S*H wherein Klinger observes how silly people are regarding geographic location once some form of telecommunications technology is brought into the picture. Specifically, he remarks about how silly it is that people are always impressed by from how far away someone is calling on the phone, as if they had to walk from there.

Once you decide to go online, and as long as no part of the program requires any kind of residency, then it doesn't matter WHERE the school is located in relation to the student! Why is this even an issue in this thread?

Once you decide to go online for your degree, an entire world of opportunity opens-up to you. Stop confining your thinking to, of all places, Joizie. I spent a year one month in Joizie. Trust me, there are better places.

That said, TESC is one of your best logical choices if you insist on confining said choices to... Joizie. But it's by no means the least expensive... nor is NCU.

Step outside of your state, however, and you can find a full ranges of choices, at all manner of levels of expense.

Remember that the salient role of accreditation by a USDE- and/or CHEA-approved agency is the transferability of credits from institution to institution; and the acceptability of lower-level degrees as requisite for entry into higher-level ones from institution to institution. And accreditation crosses state lines. So, again, stop confining your thinking to your state. Distance learing (of which "online" is but one modality) flings open wide the gates of opportunity in terms of both programs and costs.

Just make sure that whatever school you choose is listed in either or both of the USDE database of accredited schools, or the CHEA databaseof accredited schools. As long as the associates degree is from a school that's listed in either or both of those databases, then it's accredited... and so can be used as requisite for entry into most any bachelors degree program, most anywhere.

Now, all that said, I suspect that the reason you wanted to confine yourself to your state is because your states' bachelors programs may have some specific requirements of the associates degrees that will be accepted, and so you wanted to get the associates from a school in your state which would, by default, ensure that its associates degree will be acceptable to the state's bachelors programs. California is like that, too... and so one should always be sure to consult either the Cal State or Universoty of California requirements for acceptability of associates degrees into bachelors programs with the expectation that said associates degrees will be give full credit for the first two years of the bachelors's four years of study.

But it isn't necessary to confine oneself to one's own state in order to ensure that one is going to get an associates that will be acceptable to one's state's bachelors programs. All one has to do is download the catalog (as a PDF file) from the bachelors program in which one is interested, and then look closely at both the school's own associates degrees, as well as what the school requires in its LOWER DIVISION coursework. You see, an associates degree is nothing more than the first two years of a four-year bachelors degree; and four-year bachelors degrees are divided into two divisions: The "lower division" is the first two years... usually the 100- and 200-level courses; and the "upper division" is the second two years... usually the 300- and 400-level courses. Just look at the catalog for the bachelors program into which you intend to present the associates degree as requisite for entry, and make sure that whatever associates degree you get, from wherever you get it, meets that bachelors degree's "lower division" requirements. Simple as that.

 

Except that an in-state student may get a tuition break.

 

Precisely, especially when considering state supported colleges /universities offering online programs; sometimes also offering tuition breaks in an outreach effort to neighboring states …

 

And then there's that.

True. Good point. At California's community colleges, for example, the tuition for an AA or AS degree is around $190 per semester credit hour, give or take, for out-of-state students; yet something like only $26 per semester credit hour for California residents... a whopping difference, to be sure. So, yes, there's that. And I have no idea what is the situation in Joizie.

But with community colleges out there like Clovis, and state colleges like Peru; and affordable undergrad courses which can be cherry-picked from the likes of LSU, it would take a whopping discount like California's to matter very much when all was said and done.

Still, good point.