Purdue University Global's Open University Program

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This is the breakdown price as I see it, not really all that cheap, it's similar to Big 3 pricing or a competency based degree program.
The pricing will range from the low $4K up to $8K at the Big 3/Competency ones. Here goes...

PLA course $1500
Assessments: $99 each, let's say you need 10 courses, that's $990
Monthly fee: $199/month, let's also say you need 10, it's $1990.
Total (without any other fees included):  $4480

For this price, it's very comparable to the others mentioned, if you can finish a degree at Brandman/WGU/UMPI, etc, that would be similar in price.

Not to mention the time to complete all of those PLA's. The PLA's are MASSIVE projects. Lots and lots of writing and documentation. So much that my husband's Purdue Global advisor told him not to complete PLA's as he would complete the ExcelTrack courses much faster and they're far less work. Right now, he's competing the 1 credit courses in under a week and he's taking 3 courses at a time so he's finishing 3 credits a week. No way he'd finish a PLA that fast.