Costs to Take an Online Degree

By Scot Monasterio


It has been made popular by many people that it works to take a college degree through online sources. The reason is that in the past times, these people were not able to access a traditional college for on-campus education, either because of financial issues, or for some other reasons. If someone who did not get to have an education, and still desires to have a high paid position which can be acquired by having a degree, are most likely to find online degrees helpful. You can even use these course if ever you already have a degree in one particular subject, and still wish to get one more in another subject.

Talking About Bachelor Degrees

When we talk of professionals, it is considered that a bachelor's degree is a basic qualification for any job in many fields. An associate degree will be most beneficial for people who looks for a job change, but a bachelor's degree is needed as basic building block for it! Found in the internet today are online courses that offers an extensive choices of degrees in many subjects, and are also offered by renowned Universities. To name a few are the Kaplan, the American International University Online, the University of Phoenix and many others. Other institutions as well that have campuses, does offer an online version of their course. However, you can find that there is a disadvantage when taking the degrees because they charge you more compared to the direct online courses.

The total costs payable if you want to study such courses will be a lot higher. As an example, such institutions like the University of Phoenix Online charges $30900 for a Communication course, the American Intercontinental University Online charges $30560 for the MBA course and so on. However, the price rate for the online versions for such courses in a university with a campus will be lesser than this, but it will not extend any flexibility of timing, which is a requirement for the usual online courses. Yet, there are also online courses offered at rates as cheap as $3000.

Taking the Master's Degree to Raise up Your Chances

When a bachelor's degree has been achieved, you can always push to take up a Master's degree in a subject of your preference. Because you have taken a master's degree, it will now be a great factor in bringing up your career and raise the opportunity of getting a higher salary. The master's course offered online can be very expensive, but also very useful. Well, the University of Phoenix Online however, takes a fee of $625 per credit hour for the Master's degree they offer. When you look at it, it is only 110 dollars more on what you will pay for their bachelor's degree course! All the same, other institutions also provide online courses for completing a Master's degree. The Devry's Keller School of Management is one of the most prominent among these, which they offer MBA courses for online students. A payment of $2100 they charge per course and there are totally 10 courses that have to be attended, as well as 18 elective topics. Roughly, the total fee for studying MBA from this school of management education would be around $30000. Yet, when you compare this rate with the on-campus MBA schools, this amount is actually 3 times lesser! What is more is that online courses even offer the option for doctoral studies.




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