So I went to Western Governers University it is an all online school that is a nonprofit founded by a consortium of Governers in the late 90's and it is one of the best things ever.<p>The entire school is competency based and self paced so if you can prove you know the material either after 1 week in a class or after 3 months. Boom credit given. This was a good send since I was already working in the IT field.<p>The other huge advantage it gave was that you pay for a 6 month semester and can finish as many courses as you want for a flat rate.<p>And it wasn't just a skills course I was required to do generals and all that as well.<p>Really I will never understand doing it the other way with capricious professors, unending busy work, huge loans, living in a crappy apartment next to campus. The list goes on and on. If more schools modeled themselves after WGU the brick and mortar college would be on life support in a generation.
I'm a bit sad that the University of Phoenix was used as the example. They just settled for $191 million with the FTC at the end of last year for various scummy practices.