Every university has different rules about how quickly you can complete your degree. For instance, when I was attaining my bachelor’s degree, one of my primary concerns was completing my degree at an accelerated pace… so I narrowed my search to only those schools offering 8-week classes (that’s half the length of a standard term). Then, after making A’s in my classes a couple terms, I petitioned the Dean to take what they call an Academic Overload (more classes than are typically allowed) and I was approved to do so. By doing this, I was able to take more classes AND on an 8-week schedule.

Since I know there are lots of other students like me who want to complete their degrees at a faster pace, I also have a blog devoted entirely to these schools: Accelerated Degrees Online

You might be able to find a school you like there, too.

Good luck with your search!!

Joy

I assume you already have an accredited Bachelor’s degree? And when you say you need an accredited degree, which accrediting agency do you deem credible? In the USA, Regional Accreditation is the standard.

Perhaps one of the best sources for finding a low-cost degree is:
http://www.geteducated.com

They list the cost for different online programs in an easy to read format. It might be difficult to find a Master’s program in the $5k to $8K range, but if one exists, they will have it listed as a Best Buy.

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with any of the universities outside of the USA.

Wish I could be of more assistance!!

Regards,
Joy

- It should be 100% in English
- It should cost in the 5-8K range all incl. for the program.
- Tenure can be 1 to 2 years.
- Evalution is done 100% online.
- Degree is accredited
- Industry recongnizes it well

wow ..this is proabaly what everybody wants but as I said cost is a major criteria.

If you are looking to complete your studies online, then obviously the 3 lecture hours per week doesn’t really come into play unless you are literally watching video-taped lectures, which is very uncommon. Instead, you just spend however much time you need to complete your assignments during a given week (read the textbook, perform any necessary research, complete assignments, and so on.)

If you still haven’t settled on a school, you can perform a search using the Quick Degree Finder at the top of this page to help narrow down the colleges offering degrees in your field of interest… and then compare the tuition costs.

Good luck in your search!

Yeah, the credit hour concept can be a little confusing at first. Basically, in a U.S. college, students usually receive college credits based on the number of lecture hours they receive per week in class. So, if you take one course that is worth “3 credit hours”, in a traditional, brick-and-mortar university, this would mean you are spending about 3 hours per week in lecture. If you were taking a full-time course load of 5 actual classes, then this would likely mean that you would receive 15 credit hours for that sememster (a semester is typically 14 to 16 weeks, but many schools now offer 8 week terms).

This is determined by multiplying the number of classes you are taking “5″ by the number of credit hours (lecture hours) each class is worth… let’s assume 3 in this case… so, 5 classes x 3 credit hours per class = 15 credit hours that you would receive on your transcript at the end of the semester after successful completion.

So, if you attended classes in the Fall and Spring, you would likely earn 15 hours during the Fall and 15 hours during the Spring, for a total of 30 hours for that year of college. Then, you would attend college for 4 years to earn a bachelor degree… and would have earned approximately 120 credit hours.

I hope that makes sense.

So, to find out what an entire program would cost… you would need to find out how many credit hours are required for the program. Then, you would need to find out how much tuition is per credit hour at that university. For example, if you were interested in a program that required 120 credit hours to complete and tuition was $300 per credit hour, your ENTIRE cost for the entire degree from start to finish (excluding books, fees, etc) would be 120 x $300 = $36,000, or approximately $9,000 per year.

As far as the difference between a program fee per course and a fee per credit hour. Tuition is per credit hour and can easily be found on the university’s home page under the Admissions or Financial Aid/Tuition area of the website. Often, however, certain classes, such as technology classes, classes with labs, and so on, have extra fees associated with them that are in addition to the cost of tuition. These fees are “generally” very small compared to the cost of tuition per credit hour…

Hopefully, this makes a little more sense now?

Good luck!
Joy