The world's first tuition-free online university University of the People
www.uopeople.edu
University of the people is a tuition-free online university for students from all over the world. Learn more about University at the People!

If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!

They also offer certificates!

So check it out, and make sure to let other folks know who are interested in these types of programs. At least in the US, it can save tens of thousands of dollars, so it’s worth researching!

EDIT: To clarify, their accreditation is national, which will mean you won’t be able to transfer credits to regionally accredited intuitions. This is not entirely unusual for online only college, but should be considered. So I will leave this as my parting word, if you are considering an online college that only has national accreditation, please consider this one instead of that one, as this one I will bet money is cheaper.

And here is estimated fees: According to the University of the People, they charge no tuition fees but students must pay some administrative fees to cover course assessments, ranging from $2,460 for an associate’s degree (two years) to $4,860 for a bachelor’s degree (four years). These include processing fees for applications and final exam assessments.

  • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
    63·
    1 year ago

    They are very up front with saying they are nationally accredited, which is a lower bar, I admit. But that’s the trade off I suppose.

    I still wish I had gone through here instead of the for profit college I went to that was so expensive and was utterly trash despite having accreditation.

    Regardless of lack of ability to transfer credits, I will recommend this over any for profit university at this point.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I still wish I had gone through here instead of the for profit college

      I’ll agree that I wouldn’t recommend most for-profit universities either.

      I went to that was so expensive and was utterly trash despite having accreditation.

      The huge difference in your trash for-profit regionally accredited school and one that is NOT regionally accredited, is your for profit expensive trash regionally accredited credits can transfer to a good school with good education and a respectable name that will let you get a job with it for places that look for good education. You may have paid too much, but what you got has value.

      That likely wouldn’t be the same from an employability standpoint as this UO People place.

      • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
        41·
        1 year ago

        You are way too optimistic about the value accredited colleges have these days. It’s basically a meme for my generation that college degrees don’t mean much at all and don’t earn back their value at all.

        But I will also say having only this accreditation is not unusual at all for online only learning universities, and the main target was people looking at online schooling anyway. So if you’re looking at online only college, this probably is equal to any of them in terms of value, but probably a fraction of the cost.