I’M FINALLY GOING BACK TO SCHOOL! I am starting at Ashford University online, and I was wondering …?
Does anyone have any experience with them? Are they a good school? Does a degree from this school look good on a resume?
Ashford University is regionally accredited, which is the minimum standard you want any university to hold. It means that their degrees are real. That’s a big deal.
That said, Ashford is a for profit school, which some employers dislike. However, Ashford, unlike U of Phoenix, AIU, Kaplan and etc., isn’t *famous* for being online or for being for-profit, so most employers will just see that degree and be fine with it.
Ashford is a lower level school, not particularly academically exciting, not a powerful name, but nothing wrong with it. There is a real campus, with real professors.
In general, I prefer that students do online degrees via reputable, brick and mortar universities like UMass Amherst, Northeastern, Penn State or U Maryland – schools that people know for their "offline" presence. But if you had to pick an online school, you could do worse than Ashford. Still, as with any for profit school, I’m cautious.
This wiki article gives it a nice, broad overview, so you get a feel for the place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_University
So, are they a good school? Nothing wrong with them. Does a degree from them look good on a resume? Well, it doesn’t look actively bad, but there are other online providers with some really great reps as universities, like U Maryland and Penn State, that could be worth your consideration.
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I have been attending school on line for three years. I have never heard of ashford. The top three accredited on line schools are Kaplan, University of Phoenix, and AIU. You may want to do some research on their credibility because a lot of on line schools are not accredited
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Ashford University is regionally accredited, which is the minimum standard you want any university to hold. It means that their degrees are real. That’s a big deal.
That said, Ashford is a for profit school, which some employers dislike. However, Ashford, unlike U of Phoenix, AIU, Kaplan and etc., isn’t *famous* for being online or for being for-profit, so most employers will just see that degree and be fine with it.
Ashford is a lower level school, not particularly academically exciting, not a powerful name, but nothing wrong with it. There is a real campus, with real professors.
In general, I prefer that students do online degrees via reputable, brick and mortar universities like UMass Amherst, Northeastern, Penn State or U Maryland – schools that people know for their "offline" presence. But if you had to pick an online school, you could do worse than Ashford. Still, as with any for profit school, I’m cautious.
This wiki article gives it a nice, broad overview, so you get a feel for the place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_University
So, are they a good school? Nothing wrong with them. Does a degree from them look good on a resume? Well, it doesn’t look actively bad, but there are other online providers with some really great reps as universities, like U Maryland and Penn State, that could be worth your consideration.
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