College is something that every parent wants for their child, and in the past that would force them to decide on either a local college that might not have the classes or courses that the perspective student wants or they would have to travel to a more expensive university, but now as we move on and into the future a new option has appeared. Now those wishing to pursue a higher education after high school can choose to study online through various online colleges. With the multiple benefits to pursuing an online education, it makes little to no sense to discourage it. Online learning is just as good if not better than face-to-face learning because it makes for a more direct interaction with one’s teachers and mentors, it can also lead to an overall more satisfying and challenging college experience, and the cost of attending online college is a fraction of attending a campus.
Those who choose to pursue their higher education online tend to have a better quality of interaction with the various instructors and professors that they might have. When a student attending an online college needs to ask a question or wants to talk to an instructor about an assignment, he or she has many ways to communicate with their instructor …show more content…
Financial advisor and CEO of College Funding 123 Ed Vosganian compared the costs associated with being an undergraduate at a campus with the costs of being an undergraduate online, by using multiple schools and then averaging the results he found that attending online college is immensely cheaper than attending a campus. The total costs associated with being an undergraduate at a campus average out to being 42,768 dollars, while the costs associated with being an undergraduate at an online college comes out at 21,100 dollars (Vosganian,