cheapest associates degree.

besides Ashworth and Penn is there anything cheaper?

 

Excelsior?

 

Of course you mean distance learning . . .

. . . but when I was doing degree consulting with people, I would remind them about the community college option -- the notion of choosing your classes, night, weekend, early morning, etc., to match the times you might have set aside anyway for distance or online study. Some people found that to their liking, or at least worth considering.

In the California system, for instance, courses are $20 a credit, so even if one had no prior credit, the Associates would be about $1,200, and, of course, thousands of courses to choose from.

 

Clovis Comunity College. It's RA and costs $100 per class, $3000 for the degree.

Pug

 

To add to Dr. Bear's wise words, your local B&M junior college might have a powerful PR value that a DL degree will never have. I have seen people at cocktail parties bond immediately over having taken the same infamous CC class at 7:00 A.M. on a Saturday morning.

 

And many of those courses are available online. So, if you live in California, it is very cheap to earn many credits through online coursework. Foothill College is one school that has a number of courses, but there are certainly others.


Tom Nixon

 

what about college of san juan ?

they are like 35.00 a credit hour ...?

 

Charter Oak would be pretty close.

 

Community College of the Air Force - It is free and has guaranteed job placement.

I'm all for the local CC option. When my wife did her program a few years ago, she paid $11 a credit at Yuba college in California.

 

ok this sounds crazy 11 per credit. i doubt they offer online education lol

and isn't this for those in the military only

 

When my wife finished up her associates in 2003, California community colleges were $11 per semester hour. It is mentioned above that the current rate is $20 per semester hour. They did have a good selection of online courses. Good deal are available at state sponsored schools.

IMO, attending a California community college has to be the best deal in the nation. I wonder how many students in CA realize how good of a deal this is compared with options available to the rest of the nation. Judging from the gripes heard in 2003 when the rate went from $11 to $15 for the Fall semester, it doesn't seem like many do.