Online degree with extremely limited internet, need recommendations

I'm looking into trying to obtain a degree 100% online and looking for advice and recommendations on what colleges would be best for my situation.

I work in the Gulf of Mexico half of the year (month on/month off) with limited internet access and extremely slow speeds. (609ms reaction time, 0.32mb/s download and 0.57mb/s upload).

I'm hoping to find one that I can download all of the material when I'm at home and still be able to work on it and complete it when I'm out here. Similar to Netflix mobile or something. Thanks ahead of time for any input.

 

HeriotWatt and university of london. They are exam based. The big 3 in the USA as they are somewhat exam based also.

 

They've been largely forgotten due to the explosion of online courses, but there is always the option of self-paced correspondence courses (old fashioned paper & ink). You could get the course materials ahead of time, do your work while you're out in the Gulf (I assume an oil platform?), then mail everything when you get back, and get the material for your next month away. Perhaps even knock out an online course or two while you're back in civilization.

Here are but 2 schools that offer correspondence courses (many more do), with the added benefit of being in Texas (quick turnaround time if you use the US Mail);

Correspondence Self-Paced Courses

Course Offerings : Correspondence Self-Paced Studies : Texas State University

 

You might want to check out Adams State University in Colorado. They have several undergraduate degree programs that appear to be doable at least in part by correspondence.

https://www.adams.edu/extended_studies/undergrad/

You might want to talk to some of the programs that interest you and explain your circumstances to their distance learning office. They might be willing to work with you and make special arrangements. I believe that they often do it for military students who are going on deployments and situations like that.

 

Good point. I remember that being an issue many years ago, and for some reason want to say that the Big Three plus Western Illinois University would accept all credit from correspondence courses for degree programs.

 

Colorado State University offers a Social Science and Sociology degree program via correspondence study.

https://www.csupueblo.edu/extended-studies/independent-study/degree-programs.html

Ohio University offers 2 'print based' degree programs.

https://www.ohio.edu/ecampus/print/print-bachelor.html

 

My work location had less than 1 bar and no wifi on my cell phone. For Saylor.org courses I used the Moodle mobile app android/os for any Moodle website and could download lessons and material for offline study.
Study.com also has an app and you can download videos and take quizzes and sync later if you at least have their college accelerator plan. YMMV and I never tried to sync after 30 days but I would assume they can get it working if you had any problem customer service is usually great.
Straighterine also uses Moodle but I could never get the Moodle mobile app to work I think the webmaster never setup to work with the app. It is supposed to be an easy fix but they never responded.

 

You could study for CLEP and DSST exams then take the exams during those periods you are at home. You could could earn many of the credits towards a degree this way though one of the big three colleges. Other colleges/universities often limit the number of credits you can transfer.
DSST | Get College Credit
https://clep.collegeboard.org/