Julian Edelman set to graduate from college

As an aside, Mike Vrabel missed at least one of the White House trips he earned because he was taking classes at OSU. Being the head coach there was [is?] his dream job, and he felt he had to have his degree for it.

Patsfanin Philly said:

As someone who went back to school 20 years ago in an online program ( when it was in its infancy) there is a reward. In addition to the education itself, for those who can't manage it any other way, it is an option.My children were young and I was working 50+ hours a week. Traveling to school wasn't an option but sitting at a computer late at night ( I attending with west coast students who were 3 hours behind) made it work. My program was trying to attract students so tuition was extremely low and frozen for the length of the program. I would do it again in a heartbeat. It didn't give me a new career but added to what I had and helped in other ways.

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I laud your efforts and do not want to minimize what you accomplished, just wonder if the current proliferation of these types of programs has diluted the the quality. From my view their purpose seems to be focused on profit rather than education (lots of advertising).. they also now seem quite expensive considering the minimal overhead and associated costs.

The whole college thing and associated cost has kinda sorta lost their way.. places like New England Institute of Technology can cost about 15 K a year while you can get something comparable degree at Community College of RI for no cost for a RI resident.. New England Institute of Tech is very aggressive to get their full payment even if a student does not complete their coursework. Some of what is going on in these for profit schools verges on predatory lending.. I could go on and on, but do not want to minimize what #11 has accomplished as I do not want to minimize your accomplishments either.

I got my masters when I was 35 (BU when BU was affordable), a career goal, it opened a wealth of opportunity for me at a tremendous financial sacrifice and impacted my young family.. but it gave me overwhelming confidence to accomplish more than I thought possible..

DarrylS said:

I laud your efforts and do not want to minimize what you accomplished, just wonder if the current proliferation of these types of programs has diluted the the quality. From my view their purpose seems to be focused on profit rather than education (lots of advertising).. they also now seem quite expensive considering the minimal overhead and associated costs.

The whole college thing and associated cost has kinda sorta lost their way.. places like New England Institute of Technology can cost about 15 K a year while you can get something comparable degree at Community College of RI for no cost for a RI resident.. New England Institute of Tech is very aggressive to get their full payment even if a student does not complete their coursework. Some of what is going on in these for profit schools verges on predatory lending.. I could go on and on, but do not want to minimize what #11 has accomplished as I do not want to minimize your accomplishments either.

I got my masters when I was 35 (BU when BU was affordable), a career goal, it opened a wealth of opportunity for me at a tremendous financial sacrifice and impacted my young family.. but it gave me overwhelming confidence to accomplish more than I thought possible..

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Totally agree, it is a buyer beware situation. The whole cost of education is way out of whack ( from someone whose kids just finished college and grad school). I was lucky that my online program was extremely affordable and ran me $4200/yr for each of 4 years back 20 years ago but it is still a good deal. Is it as prestigious as a brick and mortar one? No but I wasn't interviewing for those types of jobs.... and while it only slightly helped me in my career, it allowed me to do consulting and have a unique resume where pedigree of school doesn't matter...and it set a good example for my kids since they were in elementary school at the time and we all did our homework at the kitchen table....