Thousands Of Student Vets At Ashford University May Soon Lose GI Bill Benefits

Agree and feel they have taken advantage of more vets than they have helped!

VA will pay for nationally accreditation, but it's hard won if you get a regional school to accept it.

CPL(P) (Join to see), I suspected that after reading the story. I've heard bad things about those private, on line, colleges.

SGT (Join to see) - sgt, I've delved myself into some hefty college debt by schools like devry, ashford, and the likes. There are very few schools that had private acceptable cost programs. Amu-apus had some reasonable prices, wgu, perhaps new Hampshire, but the rest get shady. I think our vets deserve better than diploma mills. I want others to benefit from what was learned by my mistakes.

CPL(P) (Join to see), Can those on line colleges grades be transferred to an accredited college? I don't know that much about them, just the TV ads. Does the VA recognize the on line colleges, and pay for them?

Sgt, these things can be transferred on a per school basis. First they check is it regionally accredited... this regional accreditation is higher than national and it is required to allow for title 4 (I believe) funding (student loans). Then you have to get the school that you want to go to, to take the credits. Sometimes they just don't match up. Sometimes there are caps at how much you can transfer. Usually 50% of a degree program. There are some programs like straigherline.com that you can get some credits if you need them, but you must check with your school to see if they count them. That's one way to save. The VA recognizes online schools.
The reason I mentioned the WGU program is because they hold regional accreditation in all the regions and then they have no limit to how many classes you get done in their 6 month semesters. Also it only costs $3250 for a masters per semester, and $2850 for a bachelor semester. It's crazy cheap. I don't know if they changed prices, but this is what I would consider the maximum price education should cost unless it's medical school or something of the likes.