I’ve worked as an Admissions Advisor and some of my students came from some of these colleges, advertising that they can get a bachelors degree in a year or a year and a half.

What the advertisement doesn’t tell you is two things typically. To qualify for the one year program you have to transfer credits into the college, and you’ll be taking a high number of classes at a time. You’d be working 8-10 hours a day just to get the classes completed within a year.

One student I worked with attempted to do the college in a year but became very burned out, and felt that she wasn’t able to retain the information she was learning as the classes were a semester worth of work completed in just over a month or so, (depending on each class.)

If a college is accredited and they offer online classes the classes online have to mirror the work load of the classes taken on the campus. So if it is a legitimate college, you do get a lot done in a short period of time and it is possible to graduate in a year.
They just don’t tell you all of the details in these ads.

And cost wise for most full four year colleges, the cost of taking classes online is higher than at the campus as you pay for convenience.

There are a few colleges that make exception to this.

Be sure if you are looking into this as an option that you get all the details and your questions answered.

Sophie