Saving on College Costs
Tuition increases enacted by most colleges and universities across the United States last year, combined with soaring fuel prices and a rising cost of living have all converged to create the perfect storm of problems for college students everywhere, many of whom could just barely afford to attend in the first place, and who now are having to reconsider their choices. The average tuition and associated costs per year at a private college start on the high end at nearly $35,000 annually for students living on campus. While the state schools are comparatively less expensive, they too can cost a pretty penny in actual paid out cash, since scholarships are less widely available. That isn’t always the case, but it can be a major contributing factor.
Higher Education Can Be Yours
Surely you have noticed all of the commercials on television and ads online promoting higher education through online degree programs and courses. It is true that these types of advertisements are all over the place. There is even a television commercial with the famous actress Shannon Doherty, who you might recognize from the television show “Charmed.” It seems like everyone is embracing the fact that they can receive the higher education that they have always dreamed of while still living and working in their everyday lives as normally as possible. So you too can attain your degree while you continue with all of the current obligations and requirements in your life.
Howard University Executive MBA
Howard University has just announced its inaugural online degree program. The Executive MBA program online is designed to prepare students for business leadership roles in the rapidly expanding global marketplace. The new, prestigious program is AACSB accredited, ranked very near the top of a list of U.S. Business Schools evaluated by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and was ranked in the top spot for minority MBA Students by the Princeton Review.
The 18 month program is available via a flexible, online format. This makes it possible for the working professional to earn a valuable degree from a world-class faculty who have prepared business executives to take on leadership roles in the world’s corporate theater since 1867. As a brick and mortar institute of higher learning, this historically black college is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The school is partially funded by the US Government, which donates approximately $235 million on a yearly basis. From its founding, Howard University has remained nonsectarian, open to people of both genders and all races. At its campus locations in Washington, DC, the Graduate schools associated with Howard include pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity.
iTunes U
On May 30, 2007, iTunes U was announced by Apple Inc in Cupertino, California. The new service, available through iTunes, would manage, and distribute access to educational media content and files for students of a college or university. Non-students and ordinary Internet users could also access the information, contributing to the “open university” project.
Schools and other institutions receive their own iTunes U sites nested inside of Apple’s iTunes Store infrastructure. There is no cost incurred for anyone who is either uploading or downloading material. Course lectures, foreign language lessons, science lab demonstrations, campus tours, and sports event highlights are all provided by qualifying “two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.” Apple is strict about the regulation of college and university involvement in iTunes U.
