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Studying online without wasting money. How to check accreditation before you pay, which qualifications genuinely work at a distance and which cannot, what application fees and refund checks really are, and how to recognise a programme that will not lead anywhere.
You cannot learn to weld online. But the classroom half of a trade qualification works well remotely, and for most trades an apprenticeship pays you to learn instead of charging you.
Online engineering degrees are real, but two distinctions decide whether yours leads to a licence: ABET accreditation, and whether it is engineering or engineering technology. Most search results blur both.
A refund check is not free money. It is your own loan, and you repay it with interest. But genuinely tuition-free colleges and funded programmes do exist. Here is how to tell them apart.
Plenty of colleges charge nothing to apply, and almost every one that does will waive the fee if you ask correctly. Here are the six routes to a waiver, and why the fee should never decide where you apply.
An online degree from an accredited university is the same qualification as the on-campus version. One from an unaccredited provider is worth nothing. Here is how to tell them apart in about five minutes.