Charter Oak Requiring 80% Study.com Course Grades

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Nobody likes the concept of 'pulling up the ladder behind you.'  It feels unfair on a visceral level.  Labor markets react to supply and demand.  The professions with salaries that have outstripped inflation have continually increased the entry requirements.  Those that have not have seen wages on a real basis steadily decline.

What these schools are doing protects the value of the degree of the alumni.  It absolutely sucks for those still working toward that goal.

This forum has done a phenomenal job showing an ever growing subset of college students how to complete a degree in a cheaper and less onerous way than the traditional method.  Sadly, we are now a victim of our own success.  I sound like a broken record always preaching that it WILL NOT get cheaper, easier or faster to complete a degree over the next few years.  If you want/need one, doing it now and doing it as fast as possible is the best advice to save money and effort.

I hope the whole rotten edifice of post secondary education (especially in the U.S.) collapses and I think it will eventually from its own bloated dead weight.  However I don't think it will happen on a timeline that helps anyone old enough to be worried about a degree right now.

This is an excellent forum (pun intended) to get together and complain about these types of decisions but expect more of them.  Finish your degree!

Getting degrees at the Big 3 has absolutely gotten easier, and cheaper in some instances, over the years.  TESU has gotten more expensive, but EC has gotten cheaper.  COSC has stayed relatively cheap throughout the years.

BUT, the main thing that happened is that ACE credit expanded and got cheaper.  It is considerably easier now to get 90+ credits VERY cheaply than it ever was.  CLEP is now free if you use ModernStates.  Saylor is cheaper ($5 instead of $25).  Sophia is MUCH cheaper at $99/mo than it used to be for $329/course.  Study.com has double the amount of courses they used to, and MANY UL courses.  Coopersmith has more courses than they used to.  The list goes on and on.

And the ability to get inexpensive RA credit has also expanded: ONU has $50/cr courses including an UL option for non-western History. Many states are offering free tuition right now.

The ability to find inexpensive credit is incredible.

Then, add in inexpensive CBE programs out there: UMPI, TAMUC in-state, SUU, etc.

So overall, the cost to get a degree hasn't gotten more expensive when you add up the cost for the 90-114cr you can bring in, plus the cost for tuition & fees.  I think it's actually gone down for most people.