What website can provide me with an accredited online liberal arts
degree.  I currently am working in New Jersey and do not have regular
free hours to take normal classes.  I am trying to find a reputable
website where I can get an acredited liberal arts online degree.

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Request for Question Clarification by djbaker-ga on 06 Jun 2005 13:52 PDT

Hey Brenndancork,
Quick question for you regarding your request.  Are you looking for an
online school with classes, etc that will allow you to study,
read/watch the lecture any time or a degree-mill (you pay them 50
bucks and they give you a degree) type places?  I'm pretty sure your
looking for the first but before I answer your question I want to be
positive.

Thanks,
djbaker-ga

Dear Berndan, 

There are many accerdited programs that would suit you (and no,
"degree mills" are not only not-accredited, but also a shame. The
following list would include "real" places that offer such
opportunities):

Excelsior College - Associate in Liberal Arts
<https://www.excelsior.edu/portal/page?_pageid=57,71513&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL>

Coastline Community College 
<http://dl.ccc.cccd.edu/general/earnaadegree.htm> 
(General information at: 
<http://dl.ccc.cccd.edu/>). 

Louis and Clark State College 
<http://www.lcsc.edu/dl/degrees.htm> 

Sinclair Community College 
<http://www.sinclair.edu/index.cfm> (the programme is at
<http://www.sinclair.edu/academics/dis/pub/distance/DLDegreesLAS.pdf>).

Thomas Edison State College (NJ)
<http://www.tesc.edu/> 

The site DegreeInfo.com offers some advice (in their forums) for
people who would like to discuss distance education:
DegreeInfo forums
<http://forums.degreeinfo.com/> 

Unfortunately, their excellent tool of choosing an associate degree
for yourself is unavailable right now, but I still recommend it. It
might be available later, granting you the oppotunity to seek more
schools than the ones I've given you:
Find a School
<http://search.degreeinfo.com/> 

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.

You can also search for a specific online
class or degree program at http://www.cvc.edu/catalog/.  What is nice
about this is that you can specify key words, level of study, and/or
delivery format.  For example: AA Degree, liberal arts, online only. 
There are several other search links available at
http://learn.berkeley.edu/html/alliances.html.

Also, if you're interested in picking up a few online courses for
transfer credits, I have found those offered at UC Berkeley to be
among the best I've ever taken.  You can browse their online catalog
at http://explore.berkeley.edu/UCExt/default.asp.