Newlane University - My experience so far

[Mint Berry Crunch]

I've been watching Newlane for my niece. I think it's a cheap and good way for someone in her early 20's to get an accredited degree at potentially a slow pace. She's busy with work, life and needs extra time with school. She already has her diploma in healthcare, and this would give her a degree. Are there any current students that can validate the school? The school doesn't have much activity on the Internet.

I did an interview a couple of years ago with the school to inquire about their Bachelors program. It is a CBE school that you pay a one time flat fee for (or monthly payments towards the overall principle) and you have unlimited time to do the course work. You just pay the listed price. However, what they don't tell you is that when you are completing the course work, including the final project, you have to schedule a meeting with the course instructor as they ask you questions on the material throughout the course at the end of the course. You can not pass the course until after satisfying the questions asked by the course professor. If they don't believe your responses are strong enough, you have to go back, study, and schedule another interview with them. So essentially, the work that is supposed to be a summative assessment (scored results indicating that you proven/demonstrated mastery) in the form of a final project is in fact, not the final project, and just another formative assessment. It's like playing Dark Souls and thinking that you defeated the boss after their HP drops to zero, only to realize that they get a second health bar. The guy seems nice, the philosophy behind education is sound, but the execution seems counterintuitive to it all. I'm not against being asked questions, of all things, it increases the learning experience. However if there's a final project, it should be THE final project. Either remove the "final project" or remove the interview aspect from the courses.

[runningdegree]

I've been watching Newlane for my niece. I think it's a cheap and good way for someone in her early 20's to get an accredited degree at potentially a slow pace. She's busy with work, life and needs extra time with school. She already has her diploma in healthcare, and this would give her a degree. Are there any current students that can validate the school? The school doesn't have much activity on the Internet.

It's different but in a good way. It's definitely legit. Considering the current nationwide cheating epidemic, the course hearings arguably make a newlane degree more legit than most.

[Jonathan Whatley]

I've been watching Newlane for my niece. I think it's a cheap and good way for someone in her early 20's to get an accredited degree at potentially a slow pace. She's busy with work, life and needs extra time with school.

This market is underrated!

[GoBroncos95]

I've been watching Newlane for my niece. I think it's a cheap and good way for someone in her early 20's to get an accredited degree at potentially a slow pace. She's busy with work, life and needs extra time with school. She already has her diploma in healthcare, and this would give her a degree. Are there any current students that can validate the school? The school doesn't have much activity on the Internet.

I have been in this program for a few months now. Courses are pretty solid, and the content I have learned have been pretty useful. I work two jobs and HR depts at both jobs stated that a Business Admin degree from Newlane will check mark a box. Also now that the DoE sees N/A and R/A to be almost the same, it all depends on thier work place of course to see if they will accept a degree from Newlane. In my case, it seems to work.

[ritz]

I've been watching Newlane for my niece. I think it's a cheap and good way for someone in her early 20's to get an accredited degree at potentially a slow pace. She's busy with work, life and needs extra time with school. She already has her diploma in healthcare, and this would give her a degree. Are there any current students that can validate the school? The school doesn't have much activity on the Internet.

shameless plug here, but I did an interview with newlanes founder a few weeks back & there’s some good info in there that might help you. 
we also had a very long conversation, almost two hours i believe, so this is just a small snippet. if you have other questions let me know and i might be able to answer it from the transcript.

https://medium.com/@gdngpvks/rewriting-t...aa52f37955

[RingofBarahir]

This is fantastic to learn about. I always avoided majoring in something like philosophy because I was worried about ROI. Presumably, with Newlane, I could transfer in 90 credits from my BA and just focus on the philosophy classes.

If it's really just $39/month until you hit the $1500 cap, then I don't have a reason not to do this. I've signed up to take a couple more classes in the MBA program I completed last year, but once those are done, I think I'll look at this.

[RingofBarahir]

I took the plunge. Indeed, 90 credits from my bachelor's transferred in, and I've been working on the Introduction to Philosophy class. 

I've not yet done the intro to Newlane "class" that's required because I didn't want to waste time on it until after I'd taken one "real" class and decided if it's something I'd like to keep doing. So far, I'm enjoying it, even if I only have some limited time right now.

[n0fx]

How is your experience currently?

[Dsmevolution]

I realize that this thread is fairly old, but I ran across this when researching this school on Google. The price on this seems like a "too good to be true" situation, which makes this very attractive, but I did have some questions.

Since this thread is old and has several people mention that they had just recently signed up to attend, what was your experience like up to this point? Also, would this be a good school to attend if you've never attended and are looking to start your schooling? I'm in my 40s and really would like to start after not doing so for so long, and my financial situation is a bit limited, but I could easily afford this.

I just want this "too good to be true" actually BE true.

[wow]

I realize that this thread is fairly old, but I ran across this when researching this school on Google.  The price on this seems like a "too good to be true" situation, which makes this very attractive, but I did have some questions.

Since this thread is old and has several people mention that they had just recently signed up to attend, what was your experience like up to this point?  Also, would this be a good school to attend if you've never attended and are looking to start your schooling?  I'm in my 40s and really would like to start after not doing so for so long, and my financial situation is a bit limited, but I could easily afford this.

I just want this "too good to be true" actually BE true.

I haven't started yet, but I'm on a discord with a bunch of students and it's very obviously a real school. The founder is a philanthropist who wants to make liberal arts education more widely available; that's why it's so cheap. Whether fee increases will happen in the future, I don't know, but once you start, the total price is guaranteed.