Hidden Gems of the DL World

I would have to say your right on that one. Heck, it's hard to get schools to take all your credits from other US schools.

 

You got that right! I just ran into that problem enrolling at NCU last year. If American schools will not accept credits from each other, can you imagine trying to get them to take credits from India? Not very likely.

 

One Indian University I can speak on with reliability is Guru Nanak Dev University. I know this because my former boss graduated from this uni from face to face classes with both an MA and and M.Phil in Industrial Psychology with a focus on Entrepreneurship. Afterward he was invited to Babson College as a guest researcher to complete his Ph.D. but never finished due to family constraints. A few years ago he decided he was going to finish what he started and he applied to TUIU to complete a DBA and they didn't bat an eyelash at accepting him. I think he may have had to have his degrees evaluated by WES or a similar org, but again - no issues - equivalent with RA. I don't know about any of the others unis though. I hope this helps!

Guru Nanak Dev University Centre for Distance Education, Amritsar, Punjab - IndiaStudyCenter.com

 

That's good to hear that there is an exception. I think that there would still be a lot of trouble for the average person trying to transfer credit from any foreign university. Especially if it was earned via DL. But that's just an opinion.

 

I am a little reminded about Hayley Davidson and the Japanese motorcycles case, where the Japanese product was underestimated. Attitudes can change. India is viewed here as a near future Asian Tiger with "China like" potential. It is also a country of huge contrasts. While it is nuclear, it still has massive poverty. It has, as stated, poor English speakers, yet I have met some very good English speakers and scholars.

The Australian relationship with India has not been one based upon total trust, to say the least. Having said that, I think it would be foolish to dismiss their intellectual base as third world. I think the high ranking academics would be as good as anywhere in the world. They have a great background in technology and have a good base to project educational product.

One limitation may be corruption which is still rife, according to reports.
The question of English may be answered by selective recruiting. A large number of Indians have been educated in this country, as well as the UK/US, and I see them increasingly in university positions here. Check out the British Faculty lists as well. Adjunct faculty positions seem to be filled from anywhere.

They may be used for a niche market where they have a good business profile, such as computer technology, but I think a global business opportunity exists, provided there is good quality control. I see so many brands of so many products that were produced in this country now being produced in China and still marketed here. Why is education the exception?

It may be that a university has a quota of Indian / SA scholars on its adjunct faculty, while maintaining a solid US faculty. If the Euro collapses further, then expect competition from Europe as well.

Consumers have gone where the best buy for the buck is in respect of offshore produced goods. I think that a family person anywhere in the current world will seek a reasonable costing/quality education. Most D/L students seem to be mid range in age and income in the high cost years of life. The fact that this thread exists suggests that a low cost market exists in education. How many inquiries have I seen about SA universities! Time alone will tell.



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This has its uses I guess, although I don't see it as a "gem". I do not know much about this particlar school (just Ukrainian education in general), so I only can speculate. Having said that, if they can manage an English-speaking PhD student, it just can be the easiest business doctorate available. I deduce this from the overall dreadful standard of Ukrainian/exSoviet business dissertations and local reputation of anything private, especially with "International" in the name.

 

Very good find!
But unfortunately it looks like there is some course work required which can not be done by DL.

 

I'm not sure of its reputation in South Africa, but the for-profit Milpark Business School offers an online MBA for a total of about $780.

 

They just went to the top of my list for my MBA once I get my BA done. I am going to have to look into them. Anyone on the site go there?

 

When I looked at Milpark Business School MBA pricing I want to bang my head . I paid tons more for my MBA .

 

I did some more digging on Milpark's site. That $780 is per module, not for the whole program. I got that info off their enrollment form. That brings the cost of their MBA to about $12,000.

SA schools have some of the most convoluted web sites I have ever seen.

 

Whahuh? That's insane. Any idea of the utility of it here in the U.S.?

 

$12,000 is to high for a no name non US school. I can pick one up in Texas for $5,000 from an in state program.

 

Well, when you ask Milpark's web site for an online price quote it gives a price equivalent to $780. If that was for the whole program, that would be awesome. But, that is the price-per-module, which isn't so awesome, particularly for a SA school.

 

By the way, one could still do an MBA at Andrew Jackson University for about $5,000. Not RA, but cheap.

 

Lamar U in Texas is under 5g's for RA

 

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/distance-learning-discussions/30508-future-online-education.html

There are two other schools under five grand, I think the other two have no in state restrictions.