Tuition Free Master's Degree--online and accredited

[Johann]

The entitlement mentality will be the death of our nation.

A wise warning. As I see it, it's already crippled the country I live in. (Canada).

"Don't start me to talkin'
I'll tell everything I know..."

(Sonny Boy Williamson II - 1951)

Johann

[IrishJohn]

I'm not familiar with the OP's other posts, but this one said nothing about an easy master's. If you want a free master's degree, there are scholarship programs. The federal government offers several that come with a stipend and pay full tuition or you can piece together a bunch of smaller scholarship/fellowship awards. Start by searching on websites such as fastweb.com and scholarships.com. If you work for a government agency in homeland security, public safety, law enforcement, emergency management, etc.; they might sponsor you for a master's at the Naval Postgraduate School. There are many DETC schools that are really cheap. You'll just have to take out student loans and pay them back. It doesn't take too long to pay back $10,000 or so. My master's at an RA school is going to be less than $10,000 after getting a $1,000 Texas grant. The only other suggestion I have is to skip the master's and apply for fully-funded PhD programs.

In addition, depending upon where the OP works their job might offer some kind of tuition assistance which will alleviate some of the financial pressure. There are degrees you can earn and finance by Federal loans and then have your employer pay them off for your services. For example, in teaching you can have $4,000 paid off by teaching in a low income school for a period of time. It would help if the OP gave us an idea of what she is looking for, which field and why.

[ShotoJuku]

The entitlement mentality will be the death of our nation.

First it was Obama phone now it's Obama degree.....Good Grief!!

[mrs.b]

I think you need to reread the post.

I think you need to reread the rest of my post, but allow me to be a little more blunt. I would rather disregard an entitled flavor to a question and provide useful information that others might benefit from, than play the game of knocking someone down for the sake of it. I see no point to it.

To spell it out a bit more, if someone is posting with an entitled intent, failing to contribute will simply leave them wanting and they’ll eventually move on somewhere else that’ll acknowledge it. On the other hand, if someone had good intentions but worded something poorly, benefit of the doubt and sharing information benefits them and anyone else that might be reading. Assumptions and snark drive people away. Helpfulness, on the other hand, tends to accomplish the opposite.

There are quite a few people that read the forum, only a fraction of which post, many of whom may actually be looking for nonconventional graduate program options. That sharing of nonconventional information is what drew me to this forum over a year ago and allowed me and most of the rest of us to finish our degrees when it seemed otherwise impossible, and kept me out of “the other forum” that tended toward attitude competitions over contribution.

Either way, I’m done for the time being with school, and have the information needed to do my graduate work with or without the forum here. I only wander back now and again to help where a few quick words might add something helpful to others’ journeys. I’ll leave ‘tude and snark to the professionals, I suppose.

[cookderosa]

This is a little funny. there must be two hotDillons in the world.
I am no judicial officer. I am female and i am 42. I did not know I would be made fun of with such a legitimate question. there are many schools looking to go tuition free so why is this a crazy question.
whoever is over this site please just terminate this thread for me. The people that have commented are obviously not up to date or speed on things.

thanks anyways.

This forum consists of people. Just regular people chatting about how to earn credit. Yes, some of us know some stuff, but none of us know everything. If we are not up to speed on all the "many schools looking to go tuition free" then perhaps YOU should be the one to bring the information to the forum.
In the years I've been here, I have not EVER heard of such a thing- and that's my real answer.
If these "many schools" were in fact doing this, I'm wondering why it isn't making headlines somewhere? (I read tons of edu-news) Your post is the first I've heard of free RA graduate degrees, I'd like you to share at least one please. Also, I noticed you used the phrase "state authorized" which *in my opinion* is highly suspicious. Normal people don't use "RA" or "state authorized" in their question. I'll toss a penny into the jar if you're not here to promote a degree mill...just a guess...

[sanantone]

Free master's degrees do exist, but they have requirements that most people won't meet.

Wake Forest University MBA Program FREE for Minority Students!!! - Black Celebrity Giving | Black Celebrity Giving
Graduate Tuition Grant - Milwaukee School of Engineering
Earn a 5th Year Tuition-free Master's Degree at Clark University
Free Master's degree, paid for by stimulus money, offered to Upstate New Yorkers | syracuse.com
OSTA » Blog Archive » FREE Masters Degree Program at OSU

You can also look into assistantships. There are also school districts that work with Teach America that will pay for a master's in education.

[sklineho]

First it was Obama phone now it's Obama degree.....Good Grief!!

At the risk of injecting politics into this debate, which I and everyone here doesn't want to happen, I felt the need to correct this oft quoted but blatantly false statement. The free phone thing did not start during Obama's tenure, despite what certain media pundits and Yahoo commenters would have you believe. The program, officially called "Lifeline" began in......wait for it, 1984. And........wait for it again.......that was during the..........wait for it......Reagan administrtion.

<source>snopes.com: Free 'ObamaPhones' for Welfare Recipients

[cookderosa]

Free master's degrees do exist, but they have requirements that most people won't meet.

Wake Forest University MBA Program FREE for Minority Students!!! - Black Celebrity Giving | Black Celebrity Giving
Graduate Tuition Grant - Milwaukee School of Engineering
Earn a 5th Year Tuition-free Master's Degree at Clark University
Free Master's degree, paid for by stimulus money, offered to Upstate New Yorkers | syracuse.com
OSTA » Blog Archive » FREE Masters Degree Program at OSU

You can also look into assistantships. There are also school districts that work with Teach America that will pay for a master's in education.

There are multiple ways to get degrees for free (especially at the undergrad, less so at the grad) add in military service, paid stipend doctoral programs- but is anyone doing any of this via distance learning??

[cookderosa]

At the risk of injecting politics into this debate, which I and everyone here doesn't want to happen, I felt the need to correct this oft quoted but blatantly false statement. The free phone thing did not start during Obama's tenure, despite what certain media pundits and Yahoo commenters would have you believe. The program, officially called "Lifeline" began in......wait for it, 1984. And........wait for it again.......that was during the..........wait for it......Reagan administrtion.

<source>snopes.com: Free 'ObamaPhones' for Welfare Recipients

Not that I'm one to jump on the off topic tangents <smile> but I'd never heard of Lifeline until this year. Of course I saw the viral clip of the woman screaming "Obama Phone!" but *literally* there is a radio spot for lifeline no less than once per hour here. I am so sick of that commercial I could puke. It's not free, but they give you a voucher to bring your bill down to $35 /month. Now, for what it's worth, we have a pa-as-you-go phone with unlimited everything, GPS, camera, web, etc and it cost.....$35/month. So, again, the govt is enticing people to get into a program that they don't need, and once you're in....

[ShotoJuku]

At the risk of injecting politics into this debate

Yea, me too...... [video=youtube;tpAOwJvTOio]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio[/video]