seriously, you can get a bachelor's degree for $4000 total even if you live miles from anywhere [View all]

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It's an accredited school. It's a real degree. For $4000.

I just read about the University of the People. It seems to be designed with underserved populations around the world in mind, but there doesn't seem to be any reason anybody else can't get a degree here. It's all online--even the reading materials, which saves a ton of money--and it's an accredited school.

Right now the only degrees offered (either associate's or bachelor's) are in computer science and business administration, but they picked those two fields because that's where the demand is.

If there's any truth at all to that six degrees of separation thing, maybe this information is worth passing along to others who might know somebody who knows somebody who's living in a remote village in India--or a big city in Mongolia, or any place in between where it's hard to get a college degree.

http://uopeople.edu/

Here's the transcript of the founder's TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_reshef_a_tuition_free_college_degree/transcript?language=en