Okay so, in my job I move around every 1-2 years. I have an associates. I would like to finish my bachelors. Unfortunately I will not get in-state tuition until October of this year (CA). After this 1 yr mark, I am on a list available for transfer (I have to be 9 months of finishing school to delay a transfer). I would love an all online college for my bachelor's in Business Management in which in-state or out of state tuition doesn't matter. I also do NOT want a for profit school.
Suggestions? I have found if I pick a regular brick and mortar, I have to go in for proctored tests and rather not as I have done those in the past and it was 60 bucks a pop per hour for a proctored final. The other choice was a pricey program and 360 camera for a few hundred bucks.
I studied engineering in college and courses were only offered once a year, so if you got out of sync, it put you a whole year behind. Well, I had to drop a course. I wound up taking the course over the summer on line at another university and transferring the credit to stay on track.
This was 20 years ago but all that was required was that a tenured professor received the test and administered it. I had a friend who was a graduate student at the time in linguistics and asked a friendly professor in the department if he would mind doing it for me. They guy put me in a conference room within view of his office and I just took the test there. NBD.
If you have access to someone in higher education, maybe find out what the definition of a proctored test is? Also check with community colleges on whether they will do this, they may do it cheaper. If that's not possible, look for programs that are assignment based rather than test based?
My problem is lets say I pick UCR which is a local college here for me now but I get moved in 6 months to another state on the east coast (which is feasible), I have to pay an out of state proctor. There's no way someone would do it just for shits and giggles when they are not associated to a school. When you go to a school which offers programs completely online, you normally don't have to worry about proctored exams as they are mainly assignment based.
I'd keep looking at other bricks and mortar schools. I've worked for two and neither require proctored exams. We were very assignment/project based which is a best practice for most online courses (exceptions are accounting/math/etc.)
I work in the industry and by-and-large (depending on your discipline) it's not a common practice to require proctoring so you should be able to find one that is fully proctor-free, or where only a couple of courses require it.
For those that require proctoring they often use a virtual service which as you said does require a camera, but I've found to be fairly reasonably priced. You may just need to plan to budget that cost.
Finally, both of the colleges where I worked would often (although not officially) allow free or reduced price proctoring for non-students if you can align with existing proctoring times. I've done it many times - if I have to sit in a room for 3 hours, I don't really care if there's one extra person in there. Often I would just charge a nominal fee to deal with my time to receive and send the exam.
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I don't know that you're going to find a solely online college that is not for profit. You could look at Southern New Hampshire University and Northeastern University as both have a wide variety of online programs. I don't know if either offer programs in the field you're looking for but I can say that I did my master's degree all online through Northeastern and didn't have to do any sort of proctored exam. This could also be due to the type of degree I pursued versus the one you're trying to do.
My online program didn't differentiate between in state or out of state for tuition.
If you don't care about paying out of state tuition, you'll have more options. My university has some online programs, and we don't require proctored exams. We do require a laptop with a camera allowing our proctors to check in on exam takers at any given time.
Otherwise, I agree with pp, look for programs that are more project/essay based.
Post by formerlyak on Jun 13, 2016 13:53:18 GMT -5
Have you looked at Cal State Dominguez Hills? They have some fully online programs, are a bricks and mortar school and you could benefit from in-state tuition now but continue if you are transferred.
I got my MBA through Colorado State University. AACSB accredited. Fully online. No going to test proctors (most of our finals were projects as opposed to tests). Not sure if they offer their undergrad business program online at all.
Other AACSP accredited schools I looked at for my MBA that had fully online programs (so worth looking to see if their undergrad programs are also online) were Washington State and Arizona State. Since graduating, I have also seen that Pepperdine offers an online MBA, so perhaps they have an undergrad option online as well.
I did a largely online program through one of my states brick and mortar universities, and was able to have all my tests proctored by my local public library for free. It's worth looking into if that's a concern for you!
I just finished a completely online BS through a large, traditional brick and mortar state school. The tuition structure is different for online programs than regular, so instate/resident doesn't apply for completely online students. While some courses required proctors, there was a flexible, online proctor option that was only like $20/exam. Or, as was stated above a library (or any entity that would do it and the school approved, usually a library or other school) would be able to orator for less than $60/ exam.