The world's first tuition-free online university University of the People
www.uopeople.edu
University of the people is a tuition-free online university for students from all over the world. Learn more about University at the People!

If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!

They also offer certificates!

So check it out, and make sure to let other folks know who are interested in these types of programs. At least in the US, it can save tens of thousands of dollars, so it’s worth researching!

EDIT: To clarify, their accreditation is national, which will mean you won’t be able to transfer credits to regionally accredited intuitions. This is not entirely unusual for online only college, but should be considered. So I will leave this as my parting word, if you are considering an online college that only has national accreditation, please consider this one instead of that one, as this one I will bet money is cheaper.

And here is estimated fees: According to the University of the People, they charge no tuition fees but students must pay some administrative fees to cover course assessments, ranging from $2,460 for an associate’s degree (two years) to $4,860 for a bachelor’s degree (four years). These include processing fees for applications and final exam assessments.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    I still wish I had gone through here instead of the for profit college

    I’ll agree that I wouldn’t recommend most for-profit universities either.

    I went to that was so expensive and was utterly trash despite having accreditation.

    The huge difference in your trash for-profit regionally accredited school and one that is NOT regionally accredited, is your for profit expensive trash regionally accredited credits can transfer to a good school with good education and a respectable name that will let you get a job with it for places that look for good education. You may have paid too much, but what you got has value.

    That likely wouldn’t be the same from an employability standpoint as this UO People place.

    • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
      73·
      1 year ago

      You are way too optimistic about the value accredited colleges have these days. It’s basically a meme for my generation that college degrees don’t mean much at all and don’t earn back their value at all.

      But I will also say having only this accreditation is not unusual at all for online only learning universities, and the main target was people looking at online schooling anyway. So if you’re looking at online only college, this probably is equal to any of them in terms of value, but probably a fraction of the cost.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        You are way too optimistic about the value accredited colleges have these days.

        If you’re going to college just to learn a subject, and you have the capacity for self study you may not even need college at all and spending thousands a place like UO People is a waste too. If you’re going to college to come away with a piece of paper that says “I went to college” that you want an employer to accept, regionally accredited is it. A place like UO People isn’t that.

        But I will also say having only this accreditation is not unusual at all for online only learning universities,

        That may be a factual statement, but hides the worse fact. Most online-only colleges and universities are crap. Likely not all, but most. The GOOD online only colleges/universities have…REGIONAL ACCREDITATION! A great example of online-only yet still goodis Western Governors University.. Getting regional accreditation is hard. There are rigorous standards that have to be met, which is why most online-only schools don’t have it. They can’t meet the standards of education.

        So if you’re looking at online only college, this probably is equal to any of them in terms of value, but probably a fraction of the cost.

        You’re using “value” again. Do you mean to the person studying or other people besides the person studying that you’re trying to convince you studied? If the former, sure…fine. If the latter, then no way.

        • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          1 year ago

          I’m comparing value to other online colleges with the exact same credentials.

          My soul point was to direct people from overly expensive online college with the same accreditation to at least look at this to see if they teach what they are interested in.

          Perhaps a YSK that you would like to post is that not all accreditations are made equal, and that many online only have National, which if you’re going into a competitive field will not look great, and also can not be transferred to regional accreditations.

          It feels less like you have an issue with UO directly, but more with the fact that having the national online learning accreditation means you can claim accreditation, which may confuse people into thinking the degree from Online school X is held to the same standard as even their local community college. In the grand scheme of thing, I will 100% agree with you, so would be nice if it was called something more distinct.

          Not to mention some with the same exact accreditation have the audacity to charge prices similar to brick and mortar schools like this nonsense: https://www.lionel.edu/tuition-basics https://lauruscollege.edu/dl/Laurus_College_Tuition_&_Cancellation_&_Refund_Policies.pdf https://taftu.edu/tuition/