Benjamin's Review: Northwood University - Cedar Hill

Wow. Angry, and certainly not wiutoht reason...I would be angry too if I had spent money on a degree when I could have done more research and gone elsewhere.A couple notes: 1) Making a general statement, "for profit schools suck" is just that; too general. You have had 1 experience with 1 school. Sounds like it sucked. That said, the other non-profit / public universities you are speaking of that offer online degrees; GOT INTO the online space because the "for profits" were the first to pioneer the way and show them how to do it. 2) Again on your second sentence; too general - "the only thing they care about is their [darn] bottom line". Certainly education is a business; whether it be for profit or public. Anyone who tells you differently is lying. So let's take a public university; the University of Florida (my alma mater). Their Online Masters Degree programs cost nearly twice ($40K vs. $25K) than the for profit avg. Masters degree offering. Taking one off examples (like UOP or UF) is somewhat meaningless, and certainly there are schools that are more money and schools that are less money. The PURPOSE of this post was [...] Was this answer helpful?