University of Madison - Wisconsin has an extension
UCLA - https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/BrowseCourses.aspx
U of Wyoming - Courses | Correspondence Study | Outreach Credit Programs | Outreach School | University of Wyoming
West Texas A&M - http://www.wtamu.edu/academics/continuin...study.aspx
U of North Dakota - The University of North Dakota - Online & Distance Education
Central Texas College - Central Texas College | Distance Education
There are quite literally a ton of course you can take out there. There are hundreds of schools offering distance courses, heck, St. Mary of the Woods offers them, they're a tiny female only (on campus) liberal arts school in the middle of western Indiana. Sorta pricey, however.
The trick quickly becomes these variables -
Course Offerings - Many schools offer classes, few schools offer anything beyond some basic coursework (ie no upper level stuff at most)
Cost - You can find online coursework for most non-hard sciences upper level courses, but cost quickly skyrockets.
Flexibility & Structure - Many options here, but some are quite restrictive, annoying, or have other issues such as enrollment or forum response requirements.
Other issues - Don't forget to watch out for quarter-based systems, and realize that naming of courses, course content, course level, and a bunch of other things (plus transferring) are very hard to sift through.
For those reasons, several options appear much more frequently on these forums.
Those are -
Penn Foster
LSU
BYU
The Big 3
Those schools, by far, are the bulk of courses taken.
Most other schools you barely see mentioned except in these sort of threads, there are a few exceptions you see sometimes, those are -
Arkansas, Wyoming - (usually for cheapness)
Ohio U - Sometimes mention of their testing out
When you're dealing with a bit more applied technical or hard sciences degree, you almost have to end up enrolled somewhere taking classes. Sometimes this can be online and sometimes RL. As an example, I couldn't find a way to piece together a credible (ie non-fluffy) or non-edu-aimed Math major through these options or testing out. Well, I suppose I may have been able to (try finding Real Analysis or other senior-level math courses online - most cap out at soph/junior level), but cost then became a major factor. The easiest option then became enrolling somewhere, and SUNY ESU is by far the best option there (96 credits transfer in, only have to take 32 on-site (8 courses/1 year, plus its cheap).
UCLA - https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/BrowseCourses.aspx
U of Wyoming - Courses | Correspondence Study | Outreach Credit Programs | Outreach School | University of Wyoming
West Texas A&M - http://www.wtamu.edu/academics/continuin...study.aspx
U of North Dakota - The University of North Dakota - Online & Distance Education
Central Texas College - Central Texas College | Distance Education
There are quite literally a ton of course you can take out there. There are hundreds of schools offering distance courses, heck, St. Mary of the Woods offers them, they're a tiny female only (on campus) liberal arts school in the middle of western Indiana. Sorta pricey, however.
The trick quickly becomes these variables -
Course Offerings - Many schools offer classes, few schools offer anything beyond some basic coursework (ie no upper level stuff at most)
Cost - You can find online coursework for most non-hard sciences upper level courses, but cost quickly skyrockets.
Flexibility & Structure - Many options here, but some are quite restrictive, annoying, or have other issues such as enrollment or forum response requirements.
Other issues - Don't forget to watch out for quarter-based systems, and realize that naming of courses, course content, course level, and a bunch of other things (plus transferring) are very hard to sift through.
For those reasons, several options appear much more frequently on these forums.
Those are -
Penn Foster
LSU
BYU
The Big 3
Those schools, by far, are the bulk of courses taken.
Most other schools you barely see mentioned except in these sort of threads, there are a few exceptions you see sometimes, those are -
Arkansas, Wyoming - (usually for cheapness)
Ohio U - Sometimes mention of their testing out
When you're dealing with a bit more applied technical or hard sciences degree, you almost have to end up enrolled somewhere taking classes. Sometimes this can be online and sometimes RL. As an example, I couldn't find a way to piece together a credible (ie non-fluffy) or non-edu-aimed Math major through these options or testing out. Well, I suppose I may have been able to (try finding Real Analysis or other senior-level math courses online - most cap out at soph/junior level), but cost then became a major factor. The easiest option then became enrolling somewhere, and SUNY ESU is by far the best option there (96 credits transfer in, only have to take 32 on-site (8 courses/1 year, plus its cheap).
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