Free to Earn a College Degree

Less than 150 years ago, more than half of the American population lacked the freedom to attend a university or get a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree. African-Americans couldn’t even apply to enter a college degree program. Although this supposedly ended with the Civil War, they continued to experience educational obstacles for the next 100 years.

Women also have encountered significant resistance to achieving dreams of a higher education. The first woman to become a doctor graduated from medical school less than 100 years ago. Today, medical college degree programs go above and beyond to enroll female and minority students.

Education has come so far in the last 40 years, and it is exciting to watch the trend continue as more students turn to online degree programs to earn a degree at home. Today, more students are choosing distance learning than ever before. Part of this is a reflection of the rising cost of travel.

A larger, perhaps more significant part, however, is that distance degree students want the freedom to control their own learning. They want to learn at their own pace, using learning styles that best suit them, rather than hearing lectures from professors who have taught the same classes for forty years without adding any new material.

Today’s students continue to seek new freedom in education. Those freedoms are waiting for them at online degree universities nationwide. Isn’t it time to earn your freedom – and take control of your learning?