If you'd kindly answer a question for me, I'd much appreciate it. If you decided to attend a physical campus that attended your physical presence for 3-4 days per week, how far would you be willing to commute to do so?
When I was living in the Greater Seattle area, I attended Faith Seminary in Tacoma the B&M way and it was 69.1 miles from my house to the seminary.
Back when I did the MEd, I attended a satellite campus about 10-minutes in driving distance from my home /1-hour from my worksite. Nonetheless, I would consider up to an hour drive each way.
I live the distance of a 10-minute walk away from a public college, yet I'm taking a course from Louisiana... Make of that what you wish. However, if my dream school wa an hour a way, you bet I'd take that ride! Just remember to calculate the travel expenses when figuring out the total cost (no, not just the cost of gas...)
30 minutes one way for me but I might go 45 minutes depending on the program and how bad I wanted the degree. I would think though driving 45 minutes to an hour a day for 3-4 days per week would get old pretty fast for me but there are people who do it daily.
An hour or more. Commute time is a great time for Doing Other Things. Audio books. Podcasts. Kindle or iPad reading your books aloud to you. Even dictating notes or papers. In ancient times, I commuted an hour each way, 5 days a week, to Berkeley for two years (from central Marin, where I had a full-time newspaper job plus a psychology internship at San Quentin prison). Those were the most productive ten hours of my week.
Being from the San Francisco bay area, we know traffic all too well. You have to utilize whatever time you have, so books on tape or something else, just make sure you are squeezing as most as you can from whatever spare time you have. (John Bear, you miss that 101S/N traffic along the Central San Rafael exit, lol.)
An hour or more for me as well. I finished my undergrad degree by driving from Maryland to eastern North Carolina to attend weekend classes (6-7 hours each way). I have also commuted from Annapolis to UM College Park to attend a few UMUC face to face classes which is about 1 hour each way, maybe 45 minutes in zero traffic. I would record lectures (with the professor's permission) that I would then play back during my drives in order to reinforce the lessons. That seemed to help quite a bit. I wish more of my textbooks for my online classes were offered in a Kindle or audiobook version so I could listen to them while I drive.
Some of us understood the time question as round trip, others as one way (me). Some of us interpreted the question as 'attend your dream school', others just saw any old B&M school. If it was Oxford, you bet I'd drive/travel (train, please) more than an hour each way.
Nope, just as written. I am a little shocked at all the people willing to drive over an hour for a class 3-4 times per week. Maybe I should have presented the question more specifically. I mean really, over an hour to attend English Comp? You guys must all live out here in the sticks with me. LOL
English Comp 101? Nay nay. The last course needed to complete the Master's, available in no other place and in no other format? You bet. Given the way the question was asked, I'm not sure how informative it will be.
Well said. I wouldn't commute very far three times a week for an entire program unless the program were absolutely incredible. In situations such as you described, my flexibility increases dramatically.
I will and have commuted up to 4 hours one way to do things I'm paid for. I won't commute more than 15 minutes for things I'm paying for. Tuition hurts badly enough without losing time as well.
