Popular, powerful Facebook really knows how to make friends and treat them well! Their new Facebook Fellowship program is a great example of two important higher education themes: graduate school has value and there is financial aid beyond federally funded assistance and private student loans.

Jill Laster of the Chronicle of Higher Education described the [...]

Instead of worrying about getting into grad school, take action by informing yourself about the process in every possible way. Get an understanding of how admissions officers think and what drives them to make that fateful decision to either accept or reject an applicant.

Adam Markus, a veritable “graduate admissions guru,” has a blog that is [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

My goal when I first started this online college adventure was to finish as fast as I could. I just wanted that degree in [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

In my first post, I mentioned that you might find your online program requiring much more personal investment than you’d think. The reason I say [...]

A post in 3 parts by Jaemi Sawyer, Guest Blogger. Jaemi is a Marketing Manager in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. She is currently a student at Franklin Pierce University eCollege.

My online bachelor’s degree experience: If only I knew then what I know now.

There are so many reasons why people to return to college [...]

Few people understand the meaning of lifelong learning better than a veteran does. I can’t speak from experience, but I wonder if it often feels to a soldier as though one’s real education begins not on the first day of basic training, but somewhere in the first tour of duty. It must seem trite to [...]

For adults returning to college, the benefits of real world experience such as holding full-time jobs, paying bills, heading a household, or raising families prove to be highly valuable in preparing these more mature, nontraditional students for the unique and nontraditional realm of online education.

Here are some of the types of skills and knowledge unique [...]