Online degrees through the community colleges?

I live in the state of washington. I work full time and I am also a mommy. I want to go back to school and have been considering something like Kaplan or University of Phoenix but I hear University of Phoenix is way over priced and that accreditation is sketchy. So I am looking in to going in to a community college getting an AA and transfering over. People with experience with something like this I need your advice. Do you suggest UOP, and if you do and have graduated from have you faced any problems with employment.


For the people with the community college experience how was it completing your AA trough distance learning, where you able to transfer.


Anyone in the state of washington familiar with the community colleges and has some helpful advice?


I have been looking but I dont even know where to start. I am taking a day off next week to talk to a counselor at a community college. The only thing is that there are so many cc colleges i dont know where to start.

Online degrees through the community colleges?
Your state was nice enough to make a list of online degrees available and to put it online for you with links. ☺ Some states rock like that. You're fortunate to be in a forward looking state as regards distance learning.





http://www.waol.org/coursecatalog/colleg...





Some 21st Century education facts for you - since you worry about the legitimacy of online education. Other colleges and employers judge your degree by the reputation of the college that awarded it and not whether it was online or not. Everyone is teaching online these days. Most transcripts or diplomas don't make mention of whether you took the course online or in the classroom or at some foreign extension location or on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.





Some schools that teach online have a great reputation - Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, UMass, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Duke... thousands of these all teach online now.





Some schools that teach online don't have a good reputation - you often see these advertised on TV. Know that UoP's accreditation is not "sketchy", they are just as accredited as your state U -- it's not their accreditation that's a problem, it's the academic reputation.





Why go to Kaplan or UoP when you can go to your pick of in-state community colleges much cheaper? There's a reason some schools can afford to advertise on TV - could it be that they charge way too much?





By the way, University of Washington (http://www.onlinelearning.washington.edu... ) and Washington State University (http://online.wsu.edu/ ) have online degrees too (bachelor's, master's, and even a doctorate). You might want to look at those as well. Central, Eastern, and Western Washington teach online too. ☺
Reply:Stay clear of UoP.


http://uopsucks.com/home.html





The correct course is exactly what you are doing - seeing a councillor at a CC. Simply go to the one that is most convenient.





Thanks


Bill