Low Fees Distance Learning for International Students.

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  1. omarhino

    omarhino New Member

    Dear All,

    I am from Tanzania and I would prefer to enroll with DL college that offers Business Degrees Internationally with lowest possible tuition fees. I went through websites of various colleges such as Frederick Taylor University, Pen Foster but I doubt about accredition of FTU.

    May someone suggest to me any for me, its very urgent.

    Thanxx in Advance.[/COLOR]
     
  2. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Lowest tuition for a student in Tanzania. I'd suggest you look at UNISA, The Open University of Malaysia, University of Natal and if you are looking for a degree from a well known Western university I"d suggest that you look at the Open University (UK). Any US university is going to seem expensive in comparison. If you are specifically looking for a degree from a US university there will be a different set of answers.
     
  3. major56

    major56 Active Member

  4. addision

    addision Member

    International distance learning

    To expand on what major56 says, in most states in the U.S. there are many levels of accreditation, but the types of accreditation that you should be looking for from U.S. schools are those that are at least DETC accredited and even better, Regionally Accredited. A school without these types of accreditation will not get you very far in getting a job.

    Just because a school says it is state accredited or licensed means almost nothing in the U.S. as nearly all schools have to meet this minimal level of compliance just to become a school.

    I would take the recommendation of Kizmet though and make use of the international universities he recommended, as they may be the lowest cost.
     
  5. engadnan

    engadnan Member

    Does Frederick Taylor University is listed with UNESCO IAU Handbook of Universities ?
     
  6. major56

    major56 Active Member

    It’s listed here:
    List of unaccredited institutions of higher education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Nonetheless to its credit, FTU has been CA approved since 1994, has remained small— e.g., not trying to be all things to all people without the resources to do so. FTU’s initial approval (CPPVE /Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education) was when CA State Approval meant the institution had been evaluated favorably by the Private Postsecondary Education Division of the State Department of Education on behalf of California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction in terms of their curricular quality (e.g., when CA Approval actually meant something IMO). http://www.altcpualumni.org/chronicles/cpeccpu1990.pdf. However, this approval process has been over the years subsequently downgraded in value in my view, once it was transitioned from the regulatory purview of the CA department of education to the responsibility of Consumer Affairs (e.g., BPPVE and now the BPPE).

    I’m in no way advocating that the OP seek an unaccredited degree source, as there are now so many viable accredited non-traditional DL /web-based options available. I wouldn’t consider FTU a degree /diploma mill whatsoever; nonetheless, its degrees [are] unaccredited. If I personally were the mind to seek an unaccredited advanced business degree (e.g., DBA /PhD), my choice, though no personal endorsement, would be with California Pacific University and its 34-year track record— the first collegiate institution to be approved under the qualitative standards mandated by California Educational Reform Act of 1977. And CPU has limited its degree awarding focus to business management throughout its existence.
     
  7. omarhino

    omarhino New Member

    Thanks Much.

    I will work on them, also I woul like to start with UNISA.
     

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