Hi everyone. I hope you can help me here. Like most. I need a degree and I feel somewhat lost in this maze of universities. How do you eventually know where to study? For me, cost is important, where are the cheapyet amazing places? They al lseem good at a glance then I find horror stories or disaccreditation rumours. Help me choose please. Richy
Richy, Just a heads up, place as much information in your requests as possible. All we know is that cost is important. What interests you? Do you have any college thus far? Etc.
There are many excellent schools that are (relatively) affordable. First, you need to know what you want to study and what kind of a degree you want from it. Then, narrow down to your price range. Then, decide on what is most important to you of everything that is offered: price, technology, interaction, reputation, etc. For me, I was able to easily narrow mine down because I wanted a double major in psych/soc and could only find a few colleges that would do this via distance. From there, I found one to both be simultaneously the most affordable and to have the best reputation, as well as having the type of semester schedule I want. Narrowing it down was the easy part- figuring out what I wanted to begin with took me several months (years if you count when I first started contemplating college). If you tell us what you are looking for, we can help you start the sifting process.
i agree with ruble. i just went through this--picking a subject, picking a school.... before even thinking about which school or whats online, take inventory: find a big university website--like ohio state, michigan, wisconsin, etc, and go to the "academics" page. they should have a long list of their majors. read this list and make notes of all the majors you'd be interested in. don't think about anything but pure instinct....if you're remotely interested, write it down. now look at YOUR list. what do the subjects have in common? lots of math? arts? rank your top 5-10 choices then come back here with them. the next step is to figure out which ones are available online, and then to do a search for the schools that offer them. there's no way anyone can tell you where to go without some sort of insight into who you are. sometimes your first choice may not be online; that's what happened to me. but when you focus on the list long enough, you discover other interests and a major may surface just from that-----which is also what happened with me. good luck and come back soon!
I guess that was a vague intro. I have been working as a English teacher for the last 6 years. i have worked in loads of cool places but they tend to be low salary joints due my educational status. I would like a degree in non-English teaching area. I like the idea of management as it looks good for my future and I am reaching the stage in this game when management is the next step. I also feel that management degrees open other doors as I might not always want to teach. At the moment I love it, but in the future who knows. I worked as a counsellor for people with problematic drug use in England and i still love counselling (British spelling) and psychology but don't want to do either as in South East Asia people don’t really use them unless they are DESPERATE and they certainly don't go to English guys. My real passions are people, fitness and war. Weird combo maybe. I have a massive interest in war and conflict resolution and related topics. I love Anthropology and researching the aspects which link societies to ideologies and the situations which come from them. I research terrorism (history, sociological aspects, and psychological aspects) on a daily basis, it fascinates me and I get a kick out of it. I have quite a good job in Sri Lanka (terrible money out here but it's an interesting job) in a hospital and I amore or less manage the whole project so I also have project management flowing in my blood. I have lived internationally in Saudi twice, Thailand twice, China, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Greece and of course England. I believe Kazakhstan will be next. Returning to England to study is a poor option as I have been away for so long I would have to re-establish myself in England to qualify for a student loan to fund education. That would take 3 years plus another 3 to 5 of study. I know I can do this in one of my beautiful countries I love more quickly and cheaper. i am struggling to choose the course and struggling to choose the online institution and I have been looking and looking for AGES.......... Where do I go to next? Richy Thanks in advance
ugh because they randomly delete posts instead of actually moderating. i wrote a long response and its gone into the mod abyss too...yet "abigail" got to spam the board this morning. ftl.
Please don't del this one mods Lucky I saved a copy on word. ok, here we go again I guess that was a vague intro. I have been working as a English teacher for the last 6 years. i have worked in loads of cool places but they tend to be low salary joints due my educational status. " "I would like a degree in non-English teaching area. I like the idea of management as it looks good for my future and I am reaching the stage in this game when management is the next step. I also feel that management degrees open other doors as I might not always want to teach" "I worked as a counsellor for people with problematic drug use in England and i still love counselling (British spelling) and psychology but don't want to do either as in South East Asia" "My real passions are people, fitness and war. Weird combo maybe. I have a massive interest in war and conflict resolution and related topics. I love Anthropology and researching the aspects which link societies to ideologies and the situations which come from them. I research terrorism (history, sociological aspects, and psychological aspects) on a daily basis, it fascinates me and I get a kick out of it. I have quite a good job in Sri Lanka (terrible money out here but it's an interesting job) in a hospital and I amore or less manage the whole project so I also have project management flowing in my blood" "I have lived internationally in Saudi twice, Thailand twice, China, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Greece and of course England. I believe Kazakhstan will be next." "i am struggling to choose the course and struggling to choose the online institution and I have been looking and looking for AGES.......... Where do I go to next? Richy Thanks in advance" Let this one in Mods.
No....but there has been a lot of recent spamming on the board. Because of this the mods had to implement a policy where new members have their posts approved for a period of time. I'm not sure what the time period is....or maybe it's based on the number of posts.
There has been a strange error in the moderation queue (Chip has spoken about it a few times recently). I will go ahead and post the PM sent to me by the OP which has the info he is looking for . We all went through this. It won't last for very long.
its a good idea to come up with a "shortlist" of majors before searching for a school. there are schools with a nice range of majors, and others that only have 1-2 programs fully online. my original reply was to tell you to go to a large university site, and go through the list of majors...then narrow it down based on your interest. once you have a list of about 5 majors, you can start to look at schools that offer one or more of them. from what you've written: global business/international relations immediately comes to mind. these programs tend to be interdiscliplinary--mixing the study of culture with business studies. history is another option. as for fitness, in the states there is a major called "public health" that involves disease prevention research and communication (varies at each school) .... this would be something interesting to combine with anthro or cultural studies because you could do lots of research on health and diseases in all of the countries you visit. i also recommend linguistics...with this, you can combine any language skills you have and do consulting, translating/interpreting, etc. these are just ideas based on that message. i can relate to having lots of random interests. most of the things you like to research lend themselves well to an academic career, but you mentioned you're not exactly interested in focusing on that.
I favor the suggestion from Gettingthere for you to study linguistics. If you are an expert in that and, if you speak two or more languages fluently, you will never have trouble finding a high paying job. I have a friend who speaks 3 languages fluently and works as a free-lance translator for several multi-national companies. He finds his skills highly in demand and he's quite well compensated. He also makes his own hours to some extent. Has his cake and eats it too, so to speak. I hate him for that.
I'm an interpreter myself, however, for various reasons I don't think that Linguistics is a great degree for us. Not that it isn't facinating (I would love the study!!!) but a degree in linguistics usually only leads to teaching and research positions. It could work in conjunction with approptiate language-specific certification (ATA, RID, CTLI, etc.), however there are many other degrees with more broad utility that would serve the exact same purpose. From your post, you said that you badly need a degree. Well, whether you go in to business or languages, or want to explore your interest in studying people, you really can not go wrong with Sociology. In fact, if you change your mind later, Sociology works so well with so many different career/life paths... and there is so much vital information to be learned in a sociology major... that I would recommend it to absolutely everyone. If you later decide to do a linguistics or business degree, you can easily go to a master's program in either from a bachelor's in Sociology (though business would tend to require some undergrad prereqs) or you can pursue a double major or even a second undergrad degree, using Sociology as a launching pad. In fact, it isn't until you get an advanced degree in Linguistics that it matters at all to just about anyone. This is based upon the interpreter community I work with, which of course, may not be the same as the experience that you are looking for. However, it is AN insider's perspective if you are looking for one
I understand your frustration, but rest assured, the only posts we delete are obvious spammer posts (links to whatever crap they're trying to hawk, etc.) I just made some changes to the auto-moderation filter in the hopes that it will reduce the number of posts that get sent to moderation. Also, as I said in the other thread where you brought up the same issue, we're soon to add more moderators so the moderation queue will be addressed more quickly. And for some reason, some posts are getting moderated, but not in the moderation queue, so they are getting missed when the moderators do review posts. I'm still trying to track down how and why that's happening, but it isn't consistent enough to identify. "Abigail" did indeed slip through the cracks, but not for long. With some 200 fake registrations a day (all of which are done for the purpose of spamming), it's not easy to keep up with the spammers, but our mod team actually does a remarkable job of it.
Maybe AMU has a degree that will fit your needs such as military history or international relations: AMU Bachelors Programs You could even fit in some management courses as electives.
It's also happened to me a couple of times in the past few days. I have done some translation work (although I am not a professional translator) and rather than a linguistics degree, technical knowledge and contacts are what really gets you work. I have both IT and finance experience, but the people who have an engineering or legal background seem to come out ahead of others.
you guys make good points--i also have done translation work and my IT and legal knowledge is what worked for me there..... i was just brainstorming about the various options he has . sociology is a good option.....anthro, political science...not degrees you see too often in the DL world but they're out there!
In reply to Maniac I am looking for the right school for my psychology degree. I am attending online. I have been at University of Phoenix for my first year, but I am looking for a better curriculum. Do you have any advice on online psychology degrees?
