College is very expensive!!!

[gams007]

[nomaduser]

US tuition system is broken. i.e. Now it costs $72,000 a year to attend Drexel University in Philadelphia. How many people can afford that? Unless you're from a very wealthy family, I doubt you can easily pay that by yourself.

I realized top school's online degrees cost much less than $50k total. Maybe it's best to get online degrees instead.

[Merlin]

Maybe it's best to get online degrees instead.

That is one of the big reasons why most of us are here... we can earn a bachelor's degree from a reputable online college or university with a much smaller financial investment than we could with a traditional college. In many cases, we can also complete a degree more quickly... especially if the online college also accepts alternative credit.

[rachel83az]

Yep, college is super expensive and that is why I am here. I originally stumbled on BAin4Weeks and even that was too expensive for me (at the time) - Modern States didn't exist and I didn't have the money to spend even $50 each on 30 or so CLEP tests. Plus the GRE subject test. I've always wanted a degree but I didn't know what I wanted to do so going into thousands of dollars worth of debt for a degree I might not want in a couple of years didn't seem all that appealing to me.

[StoicJ]

"Why college is so expensive in America". Eighteen minutes of NOT telling you why college is so expensive. Thanks CNBC, I should have known better. At least I could play it at 1.75X.

[bjcheung77]

They broke it down pretty well with the 3 systems, public, for-profit and not-for-profit... I would never be able to afford a "traditional" university experience. After going the "alternative education route"... I'll settle for any of the Big 3/Competency based degree providers OR the MOOC partnership degrees with Coursera, Edx, FutureLearn, Udacity and Upgrad.

[rachel83az]

I'll settle for any of the Big 3/Competency based degree providers OR the MOOC partnership degrees with Coursera, Edx, FutureLearn, Udacity and Upgrad.

Upgrad is one of those things that looks at least mildly sketchy. Have you actually gotten one of their certificates/diplomas? How respectable are they really?

[ReyMysterioso]

The only way to know for sure about Upgrad is someone has to guinea pig it and report on their experience/process here. I'm not aware that any frequent board members have done that yet.