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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.
I'll agree that I wouldn't recommend most for-profit universities either.
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.
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.
If you're going to college just to learn a subject, and you have the capacity for self study you may not even need college at all and spending thousands a place like UO People is a waste too. If you're going to college to come away with a piece of paper that says "I went to college" that you want an employer to accept, regionally accredited is it. A place like UO People isn't that.
That may be a factual statement, but hides the worse fact. Most online-only colleges and universities are crap. Likely not all, but most. The GOOD online only colleges/universities have.....REGIONAL ACCREDITATION! A great example of online-only yet still goodis Western Governors University.. Getting regional accreditation is hard. There are rigorous standards that have to be met, which is why most online-only schools don't have it. They can't meet the standards of education.
You're using "value" again. Do you mean to the person studying or other people besides the person studying that you're trying to convince you studied? If the former, sure..fine. If the latter, then no way.
I'm comparing value to other online colleges with the exact same credentials.
My soul point was to direct people from overly expensive online college with the same accreditation to at least look at this to see if they teach what they are interested in.
Perhaps a YSK that you would like to post is that not all accreditations are made equal, and that many online only have National, which if you're going into a competitive field will not look great, and also can not be transferred to regional accreditations.
It feels less like you have an issue with UO directly, but more with the fact that having the national online learning accreditation means you can claim accreditation, which may confuse people into thinking the degree from Online school X is held to the same standard as even their local community college. In the grand scheme of thing, I will 100% agree with you, so would be nice if it was called something more distinct.
Not to mention some with the same exact accreditation have the audacity to charge prices similar to brick and mortar schools like this nonsense: https://www.lionel.edu/tuition-basics https://lauruscollege.edu/dl/Laurus_College_Tuition_&_Cancellation_&_Refund_Policies.pdf https://taftu.edu/tuition/