“Top 34 Best Online Degree Programs in Management: GetEducated.com Ranks Best Values in Online Graduate Education” plus 1 more |
| Posted: 24 May 2010 10:25 AM PDT GetEducated.com, LLC, http://www.geteducated.com, has released its 2010 online university rankings of affordable graduate schools that offer the best buys in online degrees: masters in management. The online university rankings are based on a national survey of 56 regionally accredited business and management graduate schools that offer 96 online masters degrees in management. Western Carolina University's Project Management Masters (North Carolina) ranks as the #1 most affordable program at $5,692 for state residents. By comparison, the average cost of a regionally accredited, online masters in management is $21,705. The most expensive distance learning masters, a degree in International Management from Purdue University (Indiana), costs about $45,650. GetEducated's complete list of the Top 34 Ranked Best Values in Online Masters Management is available free at GetEducated.com. (PRWEB) May 24, 2010 -- GetEducated.com, an online education research group that reviews online degree graduate programs for cost, quality, and credibility, has released its 2010 online business school rankings of the Top 34 Best Values Online Masters in Management. The online university cost and affordability rankings are based on a comprehensive review of 56 regionally accredited business schools that offer 96 different distance learning, management masters degrees. Western Carolina University ranked #1 in affordability for online students in North Carolina for its Online Masters of Project Management. Degree costs for North Carolina residents: $5,692. Non-residents will pay more at $18,805. By comparison, average cost for an online masters in management (regionally accredited) is $21,705. The most expensive distance learning masters in management, in International Management, comes from Purdue University (Indiana), a public university, and costs about $45,650 for online students nationwide. GetEducated.com's Top 10 Ranked Best Values Under $21,000 1. Western Carolina University (NC) "Public universities and state colleges continue to dominant the online degree rankings when it comes to cost and affordability," says Vicky Phillips, GetEducated.com's Chief Online Education analyst. "Most people do not realize the depth and breadth of affordable online masters degrees available through distance learning," says Phillips. "Most can name three universities with online business degrees. They would be amazed to learn that almost 100 online masters degrees are available in the management major area alone. That online graduate degrees can cost as little as $6,000 and come from name-brand residential colleges would surprise almost everyone." GetEducated.com has posted a ranking list of the Top 34 Best Online Masters in Management. Online students can review and compare all 96 of the online masters in the national survey by visiting GetEducated.com's online degree program directory. The free directory allows students to find and compare online degrees along 13 dimensions, ranging from cost to accreditation to residency requirements. About: Founded in 1989, GetEducated.com is a consumer group that publishes free online education rankings and online degree reviews. The group issues report cards on accredited online degree programs in an effort to help online students compare and select from thousands of online college programs. CONTACT: Vicky Phillips, GetEducated.com, LLC, Essex Junction, VT. 05452. 802-899-4866. Website: http://www.geteducated.com # # # GetEducated.com Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 24 May 2010 08:15 PM PDT We come to university not only to get a degree that will help us get a good job and lucrative career. We also come to university, at least a little I hope, for education itself. Online courses may be effectively lowering the bar when it comes to actual learning. I had an interesting opportunity thrust upon me this quarter—the opportunity to take a fully online course at Portland State. I have never held much love for the online course, personally. There is something about the classroom environment that seems to me to be essential to a robust education—especially a college education. Nevertheless, the only course available to me was one entirely online through the Blackboard system. For the sake of progress and necessity, I decided to dive right in and see what it was all about. After a couple weeks of readings and quizzes I realized, to my dismay, that this course was, quite bluntly, a joke. The quizzes are made up of multiple-choice questions pulled straight from the book—often the quiz consists of questions from practice quizzes found in the e-book for which the answers are readily provided. The essays are simple fact-stating and book-regurgitation that require no citations or individual thought. There is no midterm and no final. The entire workload for this course is maybe half an hour a week on average, yet still counts for four credit hours. This is a course that many people would consider below par for junior high, let alone a university. There is no critical thinking, no incentive to do more than spew out the course text, and no stimulating discussion of any kind. The course does have a discussion board in case anyone wanted to have a real conversation about the materials. Unfortunately, the board has over 200 posts about technical problems with Blackboard and quizzes, or complaints about how expensive the e-book was. Now I understand that sometimes people need a break from "real" schoolwork and may turn to an easier online course for a short respite. But there are also people who are earning their degrees with a majority of online courses—courses for which the standard of learning and achievement have been significantly reduced. The School of Extended Studies even offers fully online degrees in social science and liberal studies. Portland State may not be an Ivy League university, but is this really where we want to take our college education? Lowering the bar for even one course diminishes the quality and importance of everyone's education, and the bar here has been lowered substantially. Just imagine if the next time you told someone you go to Portland State they replied with "You mean that online university?" It embarrasses me to think that there are individuals out there getting college degrees with courses like these, courses with close to zero difficulty that do little more than encourage repetition and regurgitation. This is not what a college education should be. An important part of the classroom experience is being around other individuals who think differently than you do and having discussions with professors and students about the material. Online courses are essentially providing the opposite, while simultaneously diminishing the importance of hard work, study, and critical thought altogether.
There is something to be said for progress. As technology evolves, so do the ways and degrees to which we use it in all facets of life. It's only natural that this would extend to education and the university setting. We need to preserve the importance of the classroom experience and the wide range of perspectives that come with it. We are more than just memorizers and regurgitators and our education should be consistent with that.
If this is the direction of progress I'm glad I won't be in college any longer to see what happens when we get there. Don't insult students' collective intelligence by trying to pass off a joke of a course as the college experience. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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