Self-Paced Bachelors Degree For Less Than $2000?

Same here. My advice, unless you are doing this for professional development where the degree is not important, one should wait until someone from DI completes all the courses and report the outcome. My plan is to complete all the courses and report back to DI but that could take a while. In the meantime, one should pursue a sure degree.

 

Great suggestions from AsianStew, as always, though some might require exceptional effort (and possibly no sleep for a few months ). Some involve taking five distance courses simultaneously and completing them very quickly. Others involve getting 90 credits from various sources and finishing at a specific school - and yes, those 90 credits can be inexpensive, but not free. They add up quickly.

Another suggestion: Maybe ask University of the People if you can qualify for a 50% scholarship (or better). That would put the entire degree in the $2000 range, for you - from one (good) school, no marathons needed. Maybe they can do even better and you get 100% of the cost paid. They have 100% scholarships. Their scholarship page is here: https://www.uopeople.edu/tuition-free/our-scholarships/

 

I can hardly wait for the day that Toyangco makes it happen! And I believe he will...

 

Sorry I missed this thread earlier, or I'd have said something then.

I've been looking at - and commenting on - Malaysian distance programs in forums since around 2004-5: OUM, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Multimedia U., Wawasan, LimKokWing - quite a few. They averaged $5,000 for a Bachelor's back then - and it's a relief to know, thanks to Toyangco, that they're still very reasonable - in North American terms. But they're way out of Toyangco's ballpark of $2,000. Nevertheless, with some DI members' help, he will find what he's looking for, though not, obviously, in Malaysia. Yes, I believe he will.

 

Thank you for the kind words. I really hope I can indeed make it happen. Given all these great options, I am still leaning towards University of the People and SMC University because of the sheer difficulty of doing the coursework during the intended timeframe to achieve the suggestions made by Asianstew.

 

Asian Stew posted a ton of great options. One cool thing about Ashworth that almost nobody seems to utilize (I was told this by a school official) is their Life/Work Exam program. You can test out of up to 10 courses in a Bachelors program (that's equivalent to two semesters at Ashworth) and save a ton of money, and time.

 

I found a $2000 program from Brigham young university but that low price is only for mormons

 

Less than 2K? you may want to look at the School of Business and Trade of Switzerland, its completely unaccreddited, somewhat well reputed and FREE! https://sobat.org/

 

I agree with this, too. Despite SOBAT is unaccredited (like many private Swiss schools, anyways), the education material is not bad at all. I’m going through the MA in Social Sciences in my free time, and I find the reading quite interesting and sometimes challenging. This is good enough for free education, IMO.

EDU Effective Business School, a Czech professional training center, might be another choice for you. They offer their titulo propio MBA courses, among many others, for less than €700. Just know that their certificates may not be evaluated as equivalent in some places like the US (Hence, the words professional and titulo propio). They have a free trial for the first course in any program if you want to judge the quality of education before enrolling.

Good luck, OP!

 

I forgot to mention the branch of the Polish Jagiellonian Academy in Czech:
https://www.fves.eu/
IIRC, their Bachelor degree is accredited, unlike their postgraduate studies (Masters & Doctorates), and it is within your budget. Anyway, the school was discussed extensively in the forum on the Polish Education Overview that you can find by searching. I hope a similar thread can be posted for the Education in Czech Republic.

Back to the subject. I tried to contact this FVES multiple times through email, WhatsApp and website contact form regarding the LLD program, but I never heard back from them. This, IMO, is bad customer service, so I crossed them off the list. You might have a better luck with them if you choose to try them out.

 

They were quite responsive on their German site. But, well, I did not think that it was a good idea to do my BBA there and if you consider how desperate I was to get one this speaks volumes!