By David Nagel, Campus Technology
$43,477 is the average cost for an online bachelor’s degree in the United States, according to data released by Hanover Research. An online master’s degree cost about half as much. Hanover’s research examined data from 699 predominantly non-profit academic institutions from Peterson’s Distance Learning Database. It found that the 699 institutions offered a total of nearly 9,000 online certificate and degree programs, including 3,839 associate and baccalaureate programs. The average tuition for a bachelor’s program was $43,477, which represents the total average cost to complete a program without respect to financial aid. $21,959 was the average total for a master’s program.
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