engineering degree online : The newest online schools

Posted by bposton on October 31st, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

First of all - Happy Halloween!! I hope you’ll be a good little ghost tonight and get lots of candy :-)  

I’m going to take a little time today to share with you some of my research from the October US News and World Report University and College rankings. That way, you’ll get an idea of how they measured the online schools that the focused on in this issue.

In this post, I’m listing the top 20 newest schools. Each school is listed below based on year they began offering online classes. Some of these are pretty well know, such as SMU and South Carolina. Other’s…well at least I have never heard of some of them.

So here they are - drumroll please :-) …

Briar Cliff University (IA) 2006

Edison State Community College (OH) 2006

Pima County Community College District (AZ) 2006

Southern Methodist University (TX) 2006

St. Louis Community College (MO) 2006

Toccoa Falls College (GA) 2006

University of Mississippi (MS) 2006

Chatham College (PA) 2005

Cleary University (MI) 2005

Culver-Stockton College (MO) 2005

Edgecombe Community College (NC) 2005

Mohawk Valley Community College (NY) 2005

Northern Illinois University (IL) 2005

Research College of Nursing (MO) 2005

Rutgers–New Brunswick (NJ) 2005

SUNY–Plattsburgh (NY) 2005

Southern Oregon University (OR) 2005

Spartanburg Technical College (SC) 2005

St. Clair County Community College (MI) 2005

St. Edward’s University (TX) 2005

St. Vincent’s College (CT) 2005

Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (AZ) 2005

Triton College (IL) 2005

University of Mary (ND) 2005

University of South Carolina–Columbia (SC) 2005

University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio (TX) 2005

York Technical College (SC) 2005

Ben

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engineering degree online : Another good program

Posted by bposton on October 26th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

In my never-ending quest for the best online programs, I’ve located more information about a great one that’s associated with Columbia University.

Here are the details:

The Columbia Video Network (part of the Columbia University FU FOundation)
offers graduate degree programs online if the following diciplines:
Applied Mathematics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineering/Operations Research
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

All of these online graduate degree programs are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.

CVN also offers the following online graduate certificate programs:
Nanotechnology
Business and Technology
Manufacturing Engineering
Material Science
Financial Engineering
Information Systems
Networking and Systems
Civil Engineering
Telecommunications
Wireless and Mobile Communications

The minimum admissions are as follows:
You must possess an undergraduate degree in engineering, science, mathematics, computer science or related field from an accredited institution.
You ‘ll need to have 2 recommendation letters, transcripts, a resume, and a personal statement.

Good news is - all students who meet minimum admissions requirements automatically accepted!

They’ve been around awhile. They began offering an online graduate degree program back in 1986

Some other numbers: 

Tuition for (2006-2007) is $1,122 per credit

More good news - Most of this school’s online degree programs do have a matching program in a physical classroom setting. And credits earned for courses in thier online degree programs can be transferred toward the equivalent degree program offered in the traditional classroom.

By the way, all full-time faculty who teach in the online programs also teach in the traditional programs.

Some extra stuff - in case you’re wondering. excluding chat rooms, all of the courses in CVN’s online programs are offered asynchronously, and they typically do not have a maximum class size.
 
You’d be required to log into your online course 3 time(s) per week.

Ben

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What do you want to do with your education?

Posted by bposton on October 16th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Do you want to increase your pay? Or do you find yourself at a “career crossroads”?

Or are you as far as you can go in your career with your current skills?

Not too long ago, you had to quit your job and go back to school to get ahead, but not anymore. 

Today it’s possible to get a Bachelor’s, Master’s or even Ph.D. degrees without ever setting foot in a classroom.

Theres an organization I found out about called Sloan Consortium. It was created to help colleges and other “learning organizations” start and improve their online degree programs.

Anyway, according to the Sloan Consortium, almost two-thirds of all the schools that offer classroom education now also offer courses online as well.

And get this, last year nearly two million students were enrolled in an online course of some kind.

So you’re not alone - there’s been a lot of progress in online education and the standard or traditional colleges have found out that there’s a market out there, so now (finally) they’re starting to offer what we need.

Ben
 

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