looking to apply. gonna get into renewables
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Maybe start with MIT Open Courseware?
Free and they seem to have an extensive engineering section.
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I think they’re about the same cost. At least the half a dozen I looked into were. You pay the same fees to register, you pay the same for books, the cost of the units are the same. There’s probably exceptions. The enrollment fees might vary but probably not by much.
Your best bet is to check out the website of your local colleges and you might get your answer or get the phone number of Admissions & Records and they could probably answer your question for sure with a 5 minute phone call. You can also search colleges around the country too.
It seems a lot of colleges have disability offices where you can go talk to a counselor if you have a disability and they will help you enroll in their college, register for classes, and often they will help you get a discount on some of the fees. In fact, my college payed for virtually everything but books when I used their disability office.
That means that when I took two classes of four units apiece they would have normally cost me $12 per unit which would have been about a $100.00 plus $80.00 in school fees but the disability office paid for all of it. I don’t think every college does this but my college sure did. Also if you register with the disability office they will make sure you get special accomadations if you need them such as being able to take tests by yourself alone in a classroom instead of a busy class. Or get other special help.
the books are e books tho. I’m not paying for a building or housing. i’m doing everything on my laptop at home. how is it not cheaper?
They are probably using the eAdmissions to subsidize losses elsewhere, like how music at the iTunes store should be WAY cheaper than a CD per song, but you wind up getting soaked despite all of the manufacturing and brick and mortar costs being removed.
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Most classes are 4 or 5 units. Depending on the college you are at, each 5 unit class you take charges anywhere from $30.00 to $100.00 per unit. I’m pretty sure you would pay the same online as you would if you attended in person. Yes, I know e-books are cheaper. But the initial fees I believe are the same.
I misunderstood. If you are referring to paying for living on campus vs.working at home than of course it’s cheaper.
Google mooc-list and enroll in what you wish
Is it for-profit or non-profit? Is it accredited? Does the school itself offer non-loan financial aid options like grants, scholarships?
MIT Open courseware is awesome and I totally agree with @shutterbug – it’s free and the amount of information on their site is amazing. Any accredited university usually has online classes options, too, and they have grants and scholarships available to defray the costs.
I had a friend go to some of those private for-profit colleges and the government shut them down because they were ripping off the students and leaving them with massive fines over an associate’s degree. I would research the school and their grad rates, loan to income ratio, and school-to-work ratio (as in how many grads found jobs soon after graduation with their degree)
US DEpt of ED article on how President Obama is trying to stop predatory for profit school