Working Mother Online Education for Moms A+

September 2008

GetEducated.com founder and distance learning expert Vicky Phillips talks to Working Mother magazine about why and how women and moms are enrolling in accredited online degree programs in record numbers. Included: consumer tips for how to find the best online college for prestige and price based on data from GetEducated.com's online university degree cost rankings.

Online education is becoming so mainstream that you can—and should—shop around to find the best value, says Vicky Phillips, chief education analyst for GetEducated.com, an online degree clearinghouse that provides free guidebooks on the best accredited online schools. More than 70 percent of U.S. colleges have online learning divisions, and even the most prestigious universities—including Columbia, Stanford and Duke—now offer Internet degrees. “But don’t assume there’s a direct relationship between cost and quality,” says Phillips. “Best buys will come from state and public universities that have recently made their way to the Web.”


Read more about GetEducated.com and Vicky Phillips in Working Mother Magazine.