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Tables of Contents for Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees Nontraditionally
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About the authors
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Part One: Important Issues in Nontraditional Education
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58
1. What nontraditional education is all about
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2
2. What are colleges and universities, and how do they work
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3
3. Degrees, degree requirements, and transcripts
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5
4. Is a degree worth the effort?
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6
5. Using titles
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4
6. How to evaluate a school
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10
7. School licensing laws
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5
8. Accreditation
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16
9. Accredited vs. unaccredited schools
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2
10. Scholarships and other financial aids
54
2
11. Applying to schools
56
3
Part Two: Alternative Methods of Earning Credit
59
32
12. Equivalency examinations
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4
13. Correspondence courses
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14
14. Credit for life experience learning
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6
15. Credit by learning contract
83
3
16. Credit for foreign academic experience
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3
17. The credit bank service
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2
Part Three: The Schools
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18. Accredited schools with degrees entirely by distance learning
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60
19. Accredited schools with short residency programs
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36
20. Accredited schools with nontraditional residential programs
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21. Other schools with nonresident programs
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19
22. Other schools with short residency programs
279
4
23. Other schools with nontraditional residential programs
283
6
24. High school diplomas
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4
25. Law schools
293
9
26. Medical schools
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4
27. Degree mills
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25
Part Four: Miscellany and Reference
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39
28. Honorary doctorates
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7
29. Bending the rules
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2
30. Advice for people in prison
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4
31. Miscellaneous schools
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Appendix A, Glossary of important terms
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6
Appendix B, Bibliography
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Appendix C, About the personal counseling services
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Appendix D, Religious schools: why they are not listed; how to find out about them
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Appendix E, Research doctorates
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Subject index
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Index
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