We Have Moved on From the Basic “Big 3” Colleges and Now Have CBE Big 3 and Others

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This is confusing, given that:

• WGU by any count should be the most popular online school.
  SNHU passed WGU in terms of enrollment count so they are the most popular online college in the U.S. now. 
  
• The structure of classes and tuition appear to be similar to COSC.
  

Two courses? 20 hours with easy grading? Can you please provide one or more citations?
"It takes me 2-5 hours a week for two classes. "
"I'm in one lower level class currently and I spend maybe 6-8 hours tops on the whole class -readings, short answers, discussions, etc"
Each course require 3-8hrs of work per week for each course.  (20hrs per course is low end estimate)

The CBE Big 3 is based on what is most popular here on DegreeForum for now.

PUG has lots of papers, but so do TESU and SNHU. It's still far less work than a typical butt-in-seat college course, and it is easy to get A's. If you max out alt transfer credits, then you only have to do 8 courses at PUG. A recent student of PUG said it was around 20-25hr week worth of work for nearly 7 courses done in one term.

The downside for UMASS is for ACE, you need to score 81.5% not the 70% for transfer of credits. I personally like colleges that are weighted in the student's favor, and requiring a high grade for transfer makes it easier to fail.