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What do I need to know when applying for student loans?
By now you've heard about the horrors of excessive student loans. Many students in recent years have been set up for life-long financial trouble by easily obtained, difficult to repay loans. If you don't want to be one of them,…
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How can I get a tuition reimbursement from my employer?
Maybe you went straight to work after high school, or after a couple of years of college, you cut out early to start making some money and figured you'd get back eventually. Well, now may be the perfect time to…
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What’s the ROI of a college degree?
Call it what it is: attending college is an investment. Hopefully, it’s a good one, and we can help you with that, but in order to really understand the importance of Return On Investment (ROI) we’ll need to break down…
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What are the non-monetary benefits of attending college?
Student debt is a very real problem; for many Americans, it has become an insurmountable barrier and a red mark on their credit. It's understandable that prospective students and their families would ask themselves, "Really, do I need college?" No…
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Can I get financial aid with a criminal record?
Short answer: maybe. If you want to go to college, it's best not to get convicted of a crime. But it's an unfortunate reality that sometimes it takes a serious wake-up call to realize you need to turn your life…
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How Fast Can I Finish an Online Bachelor’s Degree?
Online classes have become so mainstream that even traditional classes have online components these days. What online classes can offer that traditional classrooms cannot is an alternative schedule since classes don’t have to be taught in real-time. This means that…
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What is the value of college?
Everyone tells you to go to college. Everyone knows college is a good thing. It's become so ingrained in our society that most of us don't even question it. But what many of us can't put our fingers on is…
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How Long Will an Online Community College Degree Take?
Are you in a hurry to get a credential that will help you start a new career, advance in your current career, or help transfer to a 4-year college or university? Online community college degree programs are a handy, flexible…
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What Does Business Program Accreditation Mean?
When we talk about accreditation for higher education, we're talking about two things. The purpose of accreditation is to have an unbiased, outside party that can objectively assess whether colleges and universities are providing the education they claim to provide,…
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Will Online Community College Credits Transfer?
It’s well known that community college is one of the most affordable ways to earn college credits, as well as one of the most convenient. Online community college courses, and even full degree programs, are more convenient still; while most…
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How Long Does an Online Bachelor’s Degree Take to Complete?
A Bachelor's Degree in the United States has always consisted of approximately one-hundred and twenty credit hours of coursework, or about forty college classes. Commonly taken as fifteen hours a semester, or five courses per semester that are each three…
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Does accreditation matter?
If you're deciding on colleges the most important task is to see whether the institution is accredited or not. If not, keep looking. Accreditation tells you if the school is legitimate or not. The most recognized type of accreditation in…
