Online Schools

Online Schools

If you don't have time to go to a regular university or college for a degree, online schools help you earn a degree from your home. Traditional distance education and community colleges have taken a back seat with the advent of online schools that help students learn and earn degrees and diplomas over the web.

Online education has revolutionized the way people learn and earn their degrees all over the world. The major advantage of online schools is that you can earn a degree from almost anywhere in the world. There are hundreds of online schools and colleges on the Internet offering a wide variety of courses, from nursing to media and communication.

Online Schools

Should You Consider A Degree From A Non Profit Online School?

Non-Profit Choices Grow

While online education was once almost totally dominated by for-profit schools, a whole range of state university systems and private schools have gone into online teaching, some with very large, varied degree offerings. It's perhaps a bit surprising that many of the largest players in online education today are religion based schools. A look at the non-profit schools offering online degrees shows an interesting mix. Liberty University, an evangelical school founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell in 1971, has become a massive online teaching juggernaut, with over 50,000 students around the world taking its distance learning programs each year. At the other end of the religious school spectrum is the poetically named Our Lady of the Lake University, a 2,600 private Roman Catholic school in San Antonio, that offers just one online learning program, a master's degree in informational systems and security.