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Originally Posted by Antikarma
I am not sure where you live, but I have heard tons of great stuff about one of the online universities in Alberta, Athabasca University. I haven't researched it myself, but some of the people I have spoken to say that its just as good as a university degree in that they can transfer 90% of the credits to U of A.
Something for you to look at, at least, I can't speak to the truthfulness of it.
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I am attending Athabasca and it is excellent. It compares very favourably to the "live" Univeristy I attended in Montreal, namely Concordia.
There are several good ones that I know of: Athabasca is one, University of Leicester is another (which also has an in person option, I think). It is without doubt, the wave of the future as greater and greater demands are made on people to obtain and update their learning while still working, raising a family, etc. That's my situation - I work 40-50 hours a week and raise a family. No chance to go to York every Tuesday and Thursday night, and no reason I should when distance learning does the trick.
But each university is different - there are some who effectively "sell" you a diploma and these are not recognized accreditations. You have to research each one individually.