Online Degrees an Alternative to the Increasing Costs of College Tuition?
December 9, 2008 – 10:36 am byToday's post is brought to us by Kelly Kilpatrick, who write on the subject of distance learning. College costs are skyrocketing across the country. Tuition and fees have become so prohibitively expensive that many families are finding themselves shut out of higher education completely. It would seem we're almost back to the 1970’s when a college degree indicated your family was well-off and could afford the tuition. This was before the days of financial aid, Pell Grants and student loans; governmental budget cuts have made even those "safeguards" almost non-existent for many students who rely on them heavily to make their educational goals possible. In the New York Times (12/3) article "College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.," 49 states received "F's" for affordability in a report ...
