Clearinghouse Awards Online Degree Scholarships

GetEducated.com, LLC, America’s leading online degree clearinghouse, http://www.geteducated.com/index.asp, 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.

Essex Junction, VT (PRWEB) October 13, 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 ™. 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.

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