OnlineDegree.com to Offer Tuition-free Courses to Prospective Grand Canyon University Students to Improve College Affordability
“Working together with OnlineDegree.com furthers our mission of helping everyone reach a faith-based institution offering both academic quality and integrity.” Cameron Whitcomb, Director of Strategic Alliances.
Grand Canyon University (GCU) and OnlineDegree.com are working together to help make higher education more affordable and accessible for people across the country. Prospective GCU students will be able to satisfy general education requirements at OnlineDegree.com through self-paced online courses, tuition-free to the site’s participants. Thus, significantly lowering the total cost of education and removing impediments that often prevent individuals from taking initial steps toward their degree.
At OnlineDegree.com, students can receive college credit toward their degree taking online courses without the normal applications, entrance exams, or tuition associated with traditional institutions. The fast-growing platform was created by startup veterans and leading academics in higher education to help people go back to school. OnlineDegree.com not only prepares adults for collegiate learning, but works with participating accredited universities to award transfer credit for student’s completion of the courses. With thousands of students now enrolling every month, this provides a flexible pathway for busy adults to complete general education requirements and lower the cost of a college education.
“One of the most critical issues facing our society is access to affordable higher education,” says Grant Aldrich, Founder of OnlineDegree.com. “To enact real change, we must address the issues preventing people from getting the education they need. Grand Canyon University is bringing about that change.”
Grand Canyon University is Arizona’s premier private Christian university helping students find their purpose with next-generation education, including over 200 academic programs with many in high-demand fields. GCU offers traditional students and working professionals generous scholarship opportunities, student support resources, state-of-the-art facilities, and more. A nonprofit institution accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, GCU has been providing a consistent and effective online learning platform for more than a decade, with an advanced online learning management system and a variety of online library resources available anytime, anywhere.
“Grand Canyon University has a long history of making college more attainable for busy adults and non-traditional students,” says Cameron Whitcomb, Director of Strategic Alliances. “Working together with OnlineDegree.com furthers our mission of helping everyone reach a faith-based institution offering both academic quality and integrity.”
Through the alliance with OnlineDegree.com, prospective students will have up to 44 units of available credit that could be applied toward a degree at GCU. OnlineDegree.com students will also receive an additional 10% scholarship off tuition from the standard tuition rates when they enroll.
For more information, students can visit https://bit.ly/2SRpFhX .
About Grand Canyon University
Grand Canyon University is Arizona’s premier private Christian university helping students find their purpose with next-generation education, including over 230 academic programs with many in high-demand fields. GCU offers traditional students and working professionals generous scholarship opportunities, student support resources, on-campus state-of-the-art facilities, dynamic online classrooms, innovative learning experiences and more. https://www.gcu.edu
About OnlineDegree.com
On a mission to make higher education more affordable and accessible for everyone, OnlineDegree.com is a team of startup veterans and leading academics who believe everyone should have the ability to go to college. Through its free platform, students can explore different courses and subjects on their own schedule, be better prepared for collegiate learning, and could receive college credits toward their degree at participating universities throughout the United States. Working adults now have a bridge to start their path back to school regardless of their finances or busy schedules. https://www.onlinedegree.com/about-us/.
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