For a few months now I’ve been spending a lot of time looking into different schools. I’m interested in getting my Bachelors (or even Masters if possible) for Web Design/Development. Up until recently I was seriously considering AIU Online. A commenter (Thank you Scott) noted that I should float around RipOffReport.com and search for AIU. I come to find out that there are 70 some-odd strikes against them, and these are only documented ones on this site. I now know there are lawsuits pending against this company for fraud and teachers that couldn’t give a damn about the students they’re supposed to be helping.
AIU, up until yesterday, was the #1 school on my possibilities list. Now, thanks to ripoffreport.com, I’ve come to find out that my top FIVE schools are literally nothing more THAN a Rip Off. So this is where my visitors come in.
I know, through your blogs, that many of you have a degree of some sort a few of you have gotten them from internet based schools, like I’m looking to do. I’ve done a search on Google for internet based schools that offer Web Design / Web Programming but unfortunately all of these schools are on RipOffReport.com with absolutely horrible reviews, most of which include money fraud. One of the schools I was interested in has even claimed that they never received a certified cashiers check that was CASHED by their administration office. So naturally I’m stuck.
If you, or anyone you know, is currently going to an accredited university online and can steer me in the right direction of a school that isn’t going to screw me over, it would be greatly appreciated!
I’d really love to get my degree, I honestly don’t know where to turn and the only colleges around me are community colleges that can only offer me an associates degree in a field that has to do with computers, but is no where near where I need to be.
Google doesn’t help me, Yahoo doesn’t either – what do I do?
Thats crazy, I didn’t know such a website existed. I don’t really have any suggestions for you as all of the online learning schools I know about are from Canada. Good luck though!
P.S: I’m liking the new theme 🙂
I actually came here to see if you were still going to do medical transcription. Apparently not huh! I might just look into my local community college since it seems like I have no clue what I’d get from the web.
Honestly, I’m just floating through myself, but I was struck by your question and wondered if the one huge online university I know of had a program that would suit you. I looked into University of Phoenix years ago for my Ph.D. and decided against it, but I see they have several options that might work for you in IT and Computer Sciences. I myself am self-taught in HTML, graphic design, SEO and Web 2.0, and I’m still learning, although I’ve been at it since 1994. I think you’d be best served by picking to learn the programming languages OR graphic design, since most the people I know in the business are one of the two, or they have a business background (like me) and know just enough about web dev to make them dangerous. Check out some options here: http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/it.html, then of course, check them out again at Ripoff Report, which I haven’t done. Good luck!