University of Pennsylvania is offering a fully online undergraduate degree program.

[nyvrem]

they used to follow HES style and made you go down to campus for some modules, but they've removed that now. making the whole program 100% online.

https://lpsonline.sas.upenn.edu/admissio...experience

[Supermind]

Oh wow! I guess several other traditional universities might be getting ready to offer such programs.

[Kab]

That is great!
They just need to accept 90 transfer credits.

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[nomaduser]

This existed since years ago.
However, their tuition fee is NOT cheap! Thy charge $1200 per credit. So even if you manage to transfer 90 credits, you'll be charged at least $36,000+ for a liberal arts degree.
If you fail to transfer the 90 credits, the price will be abnormally high.
It costs $144,000 for the full 120 credits. I don't think many people will be able to pay that much price for an online degree.

[MNomadic]

Just throwing this out there: UPenn is an Ivy League. They're not going to be cheap and they're not going to accept a ton of transfer credits.

We may as well complain about a Rolls-Royce dealership not letting us trade in a beater car or not having the same prices as a KIA dealership.

[asianphd]

This existed since years ago.
However, their tuition fee is NOT cheap! Thy charge $1200 per credit. So even if you manage to transfer 90 credits, you'll be charged at least $36,000+ for a liberal arts degree.
If you fail to transfer the 90 credits, the price will be abnormally high.
It costs $144,000 for the full 120 credits. I don't think many people will be able to pay that much price for an online degree.

Harvard Extension offering ALB for about $60,160 and ALM for about $35,000.
Don't forget UPenn also offering MCIT degree for about $25,000: https://www.coursera.org/degrees/mcit-penn

[nomaduser]

Harvard Extension offering ALB for about $60,160 and ALM for about $35,000.
Don't forget UPenn also offering MCIT degree for about $25,000: https://www.coursera.org/degrees/mcit-penn

Yeah, that's too expensive for an online extension school degree.

MCIT is a much better option but it's kinda weird because the degree's description says "This degree is for the people without CS background" ... so they don't want to give you a huge credit for getting this degree.
It's literally a degree that says 'this person can't do that' lol

So that MCIT degree doesn't mean you'll be a better candidate than a guy who has 4-year bachelor in CS. It's kinda like an add-on skill rather than a full CS degree.

[ss20ts]

That is great!
They just need to accept 90 transfer credits.

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They do, but not 90 ACE credits. Most schools are not going to change and allow that many ACE credits. They have reputations to uphold along with all of their accreditations. 

[nomaduser]

Yeah, ACE is a low-end credit... you can obtain ACE credits from all kinds of online websites that are not educational institutions so I really doubt any of top 400 universities in US will ever accept ACE credits for transfer. That will damage their reputation.

[MNomadic]

Yeah, ACE is a low-end credit... you can obtain ACE credits from all kinds of online websites that are not educational institutions so I really doubt any of top 400 universities in US will ever accept ACE credits for transfer. That will damage their reputation.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I would only ask if you're aware that the primary purpose of this forum is discussing alternative credits(ACE/NCCRS) and test out credits(CLEP, DSST, TECEP, etc.) and is sponsored by an ACE alt credit provider(Instantcert) who also offers a service to help people prepare for those tests that are mostly ACE credits? I noticed multiple times that you seem to go out of your way to dis ACE credits. You're welcome to your opinion but what's the point of posting to a forum about alt credits only to dis alt credits?