Squared_Away
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I'm prior military and I want to go back to college. Anyone have any suggestions for online colleges. I heard university of Phoenix isn't that great.
~Open Minded~
~Open Minded~
The grand-daddy of non-resident colleges serving the military is University of Maryland. In the last decade the most popular one has become Excelsior of the State University of New York www.excelsior.edu.
University of Phoenix has a very bad reputation in my field (sciences).
Look at the individual programs carefully, since they are pretty much independent of each other. One reliable rule of thumb is to find a proper public university or an on-line presence of a real brick-and-mortar university that is actually run by that university and is not the major occupation of that university (some degree mills have a giant online presence and tiny real-world presence).
Likewise, avoid any and all nationally-accredited university and college degree programs. When it comes to higher education, it is the regional accrediting bodies that are reliable. The national bodies were set up by the degree mills, themselves. There are only 5 regional organizations: http://www.chea.org/Directories/regional.asp
I'm prior military and I want to go back to college. Anyone have any suggestions for online colleges. I heard university of Phoenix isn't that great.
~Open Minded~