For Higher Learning, online courses are a more beneficial option than universities

For now I will give a brief overview of why college online courses are an overall more beneficial option than enrolling in a University.CostUniversities are extremely expensive. In many cases, the cost of four years at a university greatly outweighs the potential pay benefits of earning the degree.Starting pay for psychologist with a bachelors degree is 20,000 per year. [1]The average cost of an in-state college is 7,605 per year, and out of state is about 11,990 per year. [2] We don’t even have to do the math to see that this is very expensive and the average psychologist will be crushed with the heavy burden of paying back college loans. It could take years, or a lifetime, before the debt is negated through the person’s hard work.Online courses, on the other hand, can be much cheaper and more cost efficient. In my next post, I will expand on this point and show the ways in which online courses are more beneficial financially.And lets face it, unless a person gets into an ivy league school, an online degree has much weight as a University degree when it comes to landing that job. Time EfficiencyUniversities are a full time job. Many people at universities have a small part time job that gives them minimal experience and usually doesn’t pertain to the field they are studying. Trying to maintain a f-time job and take classes is very stressful. It takes time to drive to a university, find a parking spot (sometimes this can take an hour or more,) and make it into class on time. Balancing time can become very stressful and the more stress load a person has, the less they are learning, and the less the are achieving their goals at the university. On the other hand, online courses are more lenient with time constraints. The person can take classes which adhere to their schedules, and there is no wasted time driving to and from the university.Option AdvantageMany of people going into universities change their major halfway through, some more than once. Most universities are structured for certain majors. Online courses give more options to a person still deciding what they want to do. As they work in the real world, gaining experience, they can decide their pace and what they want to learn. At Universities, tuition is paid by semester. This means that one would want to pile as many courses into one semester as they can, and all of them should pertain to the major. This can create stress on a person who isn’t quite sure which avenue they want to take. Online courses can be paid by course, meaning that a person can enroll in courses that comply with their workload and comply with their interests. If they have a change of heart about majors, they lost the cost of only a few courses, rather than a whole semester worth of tuition.ExperienceOne of the most important ways to excel in the business world is by having experience. Those of us who have put in more time will get more benefits. With online college courses, a person can put in their time and gain their degree cohesively. They will excel faster, and be four years ahead, in experience and salary, of the person who took the University route. So we see here that online courses are more beneficial to a persons career. The costs, time efficiency, option advantage, and experienced gain through online courses are more optimum than Universities. I will be expanding on these points and more in the next round.1. http://www.umsl.edu...2.http://www.collegeboard.com...