New from Harvard Extension School

[sanantone]

@sanantone since you apparently care about the rankings (you did say you go to higher ranked universities than I do). I would say yes, you would get a better education at a higher ranked school since they have better professors and facilities (according to the rankings you're so fond of).

And of course its also about reaching the self-actualization. Some people just want to say 'I went to Harvard'.

For me I just want a doctorate. I don't care if it's regional, national, international as long as it's accredited and in CS or IT.

Some people, like you would rather spend more to go to a better ranked school cause they would surely recieve a better education at one of the 'top 20 ranked' schools for the field of study than I would at the unranked nationally accredited Aspen with a DSc in CS or PhD in CS at Ateneo De Manila University.

It depends on your goals. I just want to formally publish my research.

That's not true. There aren't many options for online medical science and life science programs. University of Florida was one of the cheaper options. There were unranked schools that were more expensive.

When I chose to apply to Texas State University, its PhD program in criminal justice was fairly new and unranked. It wasn't ranked until around 2018 because the last ranking in criminology was done in 2009 when the program had just started. I looked at the CVs and bios of the professors to judge the quality of the program. The main reason why I opted to attend Txstate after being accepted was because they had the highest stipend out of every criminology/criminal justice program I researched. This allowed me to attend school full-time the second year and complete my coursework more quickly. Additionally, as a Texas public university, I could receive Texas grants. Grants are not easy to come by at the graduate level. Without the grants, the tuition for the PhD program was around $18,000. I haven't calculated the total amount I received in grants, but I'm sure they lowered the cost to below $15,000. Aspen University's DSc is just under $30k. 

I'm smarter than you think I am.