Posted on Jul 28, 2018
What online schools are good for someone in a high op-tempo unit?
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I'm in an airborne infantry unit, and for the time being I don't see a deployment coming up for at least a year or so, so I've been looking at colleges to start taking classes through. However, my unit goes out to the field pretty often and it's proving difficult to find schools that are flexible yet will still transfer credits to a more traditional college whenever I go back to "regular" school. Does anyone have any recommendations where I can start working towards a bachelors in some sort of engineering or healthcare degree, or at least prereqs that I will be able to schedule around field events and won't be wasted due to not being able to transfer down the road?
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Check out the New College Lifetrack program from the University of Alabama. You can do a learning contract (it's a class for however many hrs, usually 3). You have 6 months to complete them with no log in requirements like most blackboard based schools are.
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I took a ton of CLEP courses to get my GenEd out of the way while i was wandering around (most of the time). Took some classes (correspondence at the time... no Internet or Web) from University of Maryland & University of Wisconsin.
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I went to Coastline Community College while I was deployed. Their semesters are 8 weeks long. I would spend 8 days out and 4 days back. For those four days I'd catch up on work. The instructors were always willing to work with me as long as I told them ahead of time that I couldn't meet certain deadlines.
Also it's a regionally accredited college, so your associates should transfer to any college.
Also it's a regionally accredited college, so your associates should transfer to any college.
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Do you know if they're flexible with courses? I've seen some schools that will break up classes into 4 week chunks but most of the ones I've seen have been things like AMU that don't transfer to basically anywhere.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
You'd have to check with to find out, I'm only going by someone I know that said it was pretty good school.
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