Essex Junction, Vt., October 12, 2005 / -- GetEducated.com, LLC, America's leading online degree clearinghouse, will ease the financial burden of online learning by immediately offering scholarships to site visitors who download any of their free e-books to accredited online universities.
"A college degree is the second most expensive purchase most consumers will
make in their lifetime," explains GetEducated.com's founder and national
distance-learning expert Vicky Phillips. "In today's climate it is
entirely possibly to spend $100,000 or more for a college degree. Studying
online doesn't make college any more affordable."
"Distance learning has made college more accessible, especially for rural
and mobile workers such as those deployed in the military. Now
GetEducated.com is offering America's first online degree scholarships in
an effort to help make e-learning as financially accessible as possible to
all learners," explains Phillips.
The clearinghouse will award scholarships beginning at the $500 level to
potential e-learning students. Scholarships will be awarded quarterly from
GetEducated.com's database of registered users. Potential online students
may register when downloading the clearinghouse's free guidebooks to
accredited online degrees: Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools or Best
Distance Learning Undergraduate Schools.
"The scholarship campaign is a part of the clearinghouse's efforts to help
people get educated about cost effective quality e-degrees," explains
Phillips. The clearinghouse already issues Top 25 lists ranking America's
best buys in online degrees. Their most popular Top 25 list profiles
America's best buys in online MBAs, but the clearinghouse also publishes
data on education, engineering, computer science, and management degrees
and will expand to cover distance degrees in social services and psychology
in 2006.
GetEducated.com's free ebooks series ~ Best Distance Learning Graduate
Schools and Best Distance Learning Undergraduate Schools ~ is sponsored by
a select group of America's leading, accredited, distance-learning
colleges, including the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Indiana
University, California State University, University of Maryland University
College, and the University of Illinois Online.
Consumers wishing to register for an online degree scholarship, good for
use at any accredited distance learning program headquartered in the USA,
can register at the clearinghouse's online degree scholarship page:
http://www.geteducated.com/services/scholarships.asp
About: Founded in 1989, GetEducated.com, LLC is the safest place in
cyberspace to shop for your online degree TM. In a nationwide campaign
against online diploma mills, the clearinghouse accepts neither advertising
nor listings from unaccredited online colleges or from colleges
"accredited" by bogus agencies. The clearinghouse operates the Diploma
Mill Police, (SM), a free online degree accreditation verification service
designed to protect online degree seekers from fraud, and publishes a
series of free downloadable guidebooks to online colleges.
CONTACT: Vicky Phillips, CEO, GetEducated.com, LLC, Essex Junction, VT.
05456. 802-899-4866. Email: info[at]geteducated.com. Website:
http://www.geteducated.com/index.asp