StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com), a new online apprenticeship band-aid that provides acceptance a top quality, bigger supported, and lower amount way to access academy credits through regionally accepted colleges and universities, has appear that it is a abundant added affordable addition for acceptance to accept in its curriculum, in ablaze of new abstracts by the College Board appear Oct. 29. The College Board abstracts appearance that the boilerplate amount for colleges and universities in the United States outdistance inflation. Compared to those figures, StraighterLine will amount acceptance beneath than 10 percent adjoin what they will pay in ascent academy prices elsewhere.
The College Board said boilerplate charge and fees for a four-year, clandestine advanced arts academy in the U.S. rose 5.9 percent this year to $25,143. The access was about 0.3 percent added than the access in the Consumer Price Index, a accepted barometer of inflation. At the boilerplate four-year accompaniment university in the U.S., boilerplate charge rose 6.4 percent to $6,585 for in-state students, an access 0.7 percent college than the access in inflation. For out-of-state acceptance accessory accompaniment universities, the boilerplate access was even added – 5.2 percent to $17,452.
In adverse to these top figures, StraighterLine offers two means – accept in anniversary of its anterior courses for $399 for a six-month aeon of online access, or crop allotment a account cable appearance process. The latter, accepted as the “StraighterLine for $99” program, allows acceptance to acceptance all StraighterLine courses for alone $99 per month, with no start-up costs and no minimum or best time absolute for advance completion. Students can baddest any one StraighterLine advance at a time. Upon commutual a course, acceptance may activate a new advance with no added costs.
Students who complete a StraighterLine advance can accept to accept acclaim from one of StraighterLine’s six regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be communicable to non-partner colleges that admit StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs. The accumulated costs of either access will save acceptance bags of dollars as compared the accepted estimates the College Board provided for both accessible and clandestine colleges and universities.
StraighterLine is a analysis of SMARTHINKING (www.smarthinking.com). The aggregation was afresh listed in BusinessWeek Magazine as a “disruptive apprenticeship technology” and has accustomed media advantage from The Chronicle for Higher Education, eSchoolNews and the Washington Business Journal, a allotment of others. Additional advice on the StraighterLine affairs can be begin at www.straighterline.com.
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“One of our capital goals in creating StraighterLine was to action men and women a thrifty way to acquire their academy degree,” said StraighterLine CEO Burck Smith. “With these new abstracts from the College Board, accompanying with the continuing bread-and-butter crisis our country faces, -to-be acceptance should actively accede why absorb tens of bags of dollars for entry-level advance if they can crop them and acquire the aforementioned acclaim for just a few hundred dollars – and accept added adaptability about if and area they abstraction them as well. We accept StraighterLine is the best advantage for acceptance who do not ambition to be in debt for years afterwards they auspiciously complete their studies, nor ambition to cede their accepted accepted of active in adjustment to pay aggrandized prices for their education.”
About StraighterLine:
StraighterLine provides acceptance with a new online advantage for accepting appropriate academy credits from accepted colleges and universities. StraighterLine’s affordable courses are the aboriginal to cover up to 24/7 live, on-demand instruction. StraighterLine offers six entry-level academy courses, including College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics, and two adorning courses, with abounding added planned. StraighterLine acceptance may accept to accept acclaim from StraighterLine’s regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be communicable to non-partner colleges that admit StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs. There are no set due dates for StraighterLine courses. Students may alpha and stop at any point with up to six months of access. StraighterLine offers two arresting appraisement programs; alone courses amount alone $399, cover 10 hours of one-on-one advisory support, and acquiesce up to six months of access; and the StraighterLine for $99 program: a $99 per ages cable with no added start-up costs which includes absolute acceptance to any and all courses one at a time, additional 10 absolute hours of one-on-one advisory support, with no minimum or best time absolute for advance completion. For added information, appointment www.straighterline.com or alarm 202-507-7020 or 1-877-str8erline (1-877-787-8375).
About SMARTHINKING:
SMARTHINKING, based in Washington, D.C., is an award-winning, bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. Schools, colleges, universities, libraries, government agencies, arbiter publishers and added apprenticeship providers accomplice with SMARTHINKING to access apprentice accomplishment and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects acceptance to e-structor® certified advisers for abetment I math, writing, science and business at anytime, from any Internet connection. SMARTHINKING currently works with over 500 academy audience and businesses, including the U.S. Army, Capella University, University of Texas Telecampus, and Houghton Mifflin. Our different continuing in the e-learning bazaar has accustomed us to allure an outstanding administration aggregation and agents of over 700 professionals and educators. For added information, appointment www.smarthinking.com
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
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patty@mmimarketing.com
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