Mississippi State Engineering

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In addition to the $385.50/cr for T&RF (tuition & required fees), there's a Distance Fee - Engineering of $200/cr + Instructional Support Fee $25/cr - for a total of $610.50/cr, or $1,831.50/3cr course.

128cr total - 64cr from a CC, and there's a 32cr UL residency requirement as well.  So even if you could transfer in the max (doubtful), you'd have to pay $19,536.  It's not bad for an engineering degree, but you also don't get all of the hands-on labs and working with other students, as well as internships and contact with teachers.

OK, but all those negatives are essentially true of any distance learning program.  In general, people don't enroll in these sorts of programs because they think it's the best way to go through university.  They do it because it's the only way they can manage it.  Isn't it a good thing that there are now more choices available?

Sure except that with Engineering especially, you're really missing out doing it online.  You're missing some critical parts of a degree that wouldn't matter with a lot of other degrees.

For the price tag, I think you could go to a lot of in-state colleges with decent engineering programs for the same cost, especially if you look at the cost of a CC worth of 64cr and then 64cr x $610.50/cr = $39k - you can definitely get an engineering degree for that price lots of places.