Why go for Wally World/Walmart and American Public U. chart new ground with partnership | When you can go for Ivy League 'MIT and Harvard. along with Stanford will offer Free Online Education'

Walmart and American Public U. chart new ground with partnership | Inside Higher Ed

When something sounds too good to be true, you check it out. So Jeana Murphy and Henry Jordan did some sleuthing when their employer, Walmart, offered to pick up part of the tab for degrees from an online university that offers flexible hours, relatively cheap tuition and college credit for on-the-job training and experience.

Murphy, a 30-year-old assistant manager at a Walmart store in Elkin, N.C., started by Googling the American Public University System, the for-profit institution that two years ago landed a highly sought partnership as the preferred educational provider for the more than 1.3 million U.S. employees of Walmart Stores, Inc.

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 I heard on the news the other night that MIT and just learned that Harvard are going to start offering online classes for free this summer, and if you want to take the test to get a degree/certificate you have to pay for the test who knows how much that would be?