1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

I need a distance learning bible college that is extremely affordable and accredited!

Discussion in 'Baptist Colleges & Seminaries' started by ChristianMaker, Dec 15, 2011.

?

Accredited or Non-Accredited?

  1. Accredited

    16 vote(s)
    94.1%

  2. Non-Accredited

    1 vote(s)
    5.9%
Top Posters
Page 2 of 3
  1. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2003
    Messages:
    38,982
    Likes Received:
    2,615
    Faith:
    Baptist
    #21 Salty, Dec 16, 2011
  2. Havensdad

    Havensdad New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2007
    Messages:
    3,382
    Likes Received:
    0
    Correct. They are currently unaccredited.

    Actually they WILL ship them to you, or allow you to download them in PDF format online (which is what I did for my last couple of classes). The textbooks are actually "readers" which include only the portions of the textbooks which you need for the course. Example: In a class on Soteriology (Doctrine of Salvation), you won't get an entire 1500 page systematic theology; instead you will get only the 250 pages you need for the course.

    Yes. You can do the Home institute, from where you are at, and if you decide to do an associates or Bachelor's degree, the diploma can be turned into 42 credits. Not exactly sure of the process, though. I think there is a fee associated with turning them into credits....maybe a test, too.

    Alternatively, you can do their Wilmington School of the Bible Program, which can be taken from anywhere, at 95 bucks per credit hour.... These are actual credits, so there is no fee later, nor additional tests to take.

    http://www.luonline.com/index.cfm?PID=20693

    I think that Nations, SATS, or one of the two Liberty programs I mentioned above, would ALL serve you well.
     
    #22 Havensdad, Dec 16, 2011
  3. Havensdad

    Havensdad New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2007
    Messages:
    3,382
    Likes Received:
    0
    MILL!!

    ICAATS (its accreditor) is an accrediting mill...
     
    #23 Havensdad, Dec 16, 2011
  4. webdog

    webdog Active Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 31, 2005
    Messages:
    24,696
    Likes Received:
    2
    LHBI is 950 if paid in full, 1250 with payments. The 42 hours are only credited to a BA and require testing and $100 per class bringing the cost up an additional 1400.
     
    #24 webdog, Dec 16, 2011
  5. Havensdad

    Havensdad New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2007
    Messages:
    3,382
    Likes Received:
    0
    Thanks. I knew there was something! Still thats 62 dollars per credit altogether. Not bad!

    Though I think the Wilmington route might be better, since they are actual credits, and do not require testing (and can be transferred...)
     
    #25 Havensdad, Dec 16, 2011
  6. Greektim

    Greektim Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 22, 2010
    Messages:
    3,214
    Likes Received:
    138
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Most of the southern baptist seminaries (6 of them) have actual colleges. The one at Southeastern is called C@SE or College at Southeastern. I like their program but it is geared less toward Bible kawledge and more critical thinking for seminary level work. But that is just an opinion knowing just a little bit about the undergrad curriculum. But joining a southern baptist church gets you 1/2 tuition off gate. That is handy for me currently. Wouldn't be able to afford SEBTS w/o that discount.
     
    #26 Greektim, Dec 16, 2011
  7. PilgrimPastor

    PilgrimPastor Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 29, 2007
    Messages:
    290
    Likes Received:
    0
    They are absolutely a diploma mill. They are housed out of a church in my hometown, Modesto, CA. which strangely has a near epidemic of internet religious snake oil dealers... Universal Life Church online...

    Anyway, I looked into them a handful of years ago in a similar searching and found them to be a typical diploma mill. If you want cheap unaccredited with the possibility of accreditation I would look at Nations University, otherwise Liberty, Luther Rice, Tennessee Temple, you have plenty of accredited options.
     
    #27 PilgrimPastor, Dec 17, 2011
  8. Tom Butler

    Tom Butler New Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2005
    Messages:
    9,031
    Likes Received:
    2
    Check out Mid-Continent University in Mayfield, Kentucky

    http://www.midcontinent.edu
    It's a four-year, liberal arts school with two divisions. The Baptist College of the Bible and the Baptist College of the Arts and Sciences.

    Also has an Accelerated Degree Program where one who has some college can get his degree in 18-20 months, going to class one night a week in the town where he lives.

    One may also get a degree on-line. And MCU has just begun offering Master's degree curriculum in business.

    The website will give you full information.
     
    #28 Tom Butler, Dec 17, 2011
  9. govteach51

    govteach51 New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 11, 2011
    Messages:
    115
    Likes Received:
    0
    I have to agree about Southwestern and I am an alumni. I am shocked at the people SWBTS is now turning out.
     
    #29 govteach51, Dec 17, 2011
  10. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    When everyone is talking about sbc or college in the south are they saying this college?

    http://www.sebc.edu/

    Or is everyone just saying that mainly bible colleges in the south are good choices?

    I am sorry but I still feel a little overwhelmed. There are so many options. I which there was just a clear affordable accredited choice with a great reputation for distance learning bible colleges.

    what I have so far ...

    http://www.okbu.edu/

    http://onlinebiblecollege.com/site/

    http://www.amesintl.org/

    http://internetbiblecollege.com/

    http://internetbible...dies/index.html

    http://theschoolofchrist.org/

    www.nationsu.org

    http://www.satsonline.org/

    http://www.lhbionline.com/

    Boyce College

    www.lru.edu

    http://www.globaluniversity.edu/

    http://www.globaluniversity.edu/

    http://www.sbc.net/colleges.asp

    https://www.scofield.me/Tuition.html - Mill

    http://www.luonline.com/index.cfm?PID=20693

    http://www.lhbionline.com/

    http://www.midcontinent.edu/

    C@SE or College at Southeastern

    http://www.sebc.edu/

    Also still no one has giving me an opinion about moody bible; is that just way off in left field or something or believe something that is incorrect?

    Any help with any of these links would be greatly appreciated.
     
    #30 ChristianMaker, Dec 17, 2011
  11. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    @HeavensDad

    You have been a tremendous help as well and I am seriously looking at those choices as well.
     
    #31 ChristianMaker, Dec 17, 2011
  12. RG2

    RG2 Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    159
    Likes Received:
    0
    Faith:
    Baptist
    When people are talking about SBC they are talking about the denomination The Southern Baptist Convention. They mention that because a lot of the Southern Baptist churches want you to have a degree from a Southern Baptist college.
     
    #32 RG2, Dec 18, 2011
  13. glfredrick

    glfredrick New Member

    Joined:
    Aug 5, 2010
    Messages:
    4,996
    Likes Received:
    2
    That is correct. And more so, if one IS Southern Baptist, one's tuition is cut in half over what someone who is not SBC (though they can still attend!) would pay. The half not paid by the applicant is paid by the churches who send funds via the cooperative program to make that happen.

    Here is the link for Boyce (named after James P. Boyce, a founder of Southern Seminary).

    http://www.boycecollege.com/
    http://www.boycecollege.com/academics/onlinelearning/

    The program is FULLY accredited, and it is rigorous. Don't take it if you do not want to work hard -- at a Masters seminary level -- and at a pace equivalent with the classroom phase. Online coursework is virtually identical to in-class work, where you get the same lecture, mostly the same homework (some has to be submitted in written form versus classroom discussions, but there are live discussions online), and the same level of degree and instruction.

    It is not the "cheapest" but I've found that in education one often gets what one pays for. You can study under the man who wrote the text book or you can study the book when some other man teaches it. I've found it more profitable to study under the man who wrote the book, especially where some of the "professors" who teach at some institutions are just local pastors who sideline as college profs.
     
    #33 glfredrick, Dec 18, 2011
  14. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    http://www.okbu.edu/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://onlinebiblecollege.com/site/
    - Non-Accredited - Not Sure?
    http://www.amesintl.org/
    - Non-Accredited - Not Sure?
    http://internetbiblecollege.com/
    - Not Sure? - Not Sure?
    http://theschoolofchrist.org/
    - Not Sure? - Not Sure?
    www.nationsu.org
    - Non-Accredited - Affordable
    http://www.satsonline.org/
    - Accredited - Possible
    http://www.lhbionline.com/
    - Accredited - Affordable
    www.lru.edu
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.globaluniversity.edu/
    - Accredited - Affordable
    http://www.sbc.net/colleges.asp
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    https://www.scofield.me/Tuition.html
    - Mill
    http://www.luonline.com/index.cfm?PID=20693
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.lhbionline.com/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.midcontinent.edu/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.sebc.edu/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.boycecollege.com/academics/onlinelearning/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    http://www.leeuniversity.edu/
    - Accredited - To Expensive
    Charis Bible College
    - Not Sure? - Possible
    Covenant Theological Seminary
    - Accredited - To Expensive
     
    #34 ChristianMaker, Dec 19, 2011
  15. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    Thank you so much for all of the kind replies. I really appreciate it. I am still on my journey; but believe I am going to go with the most affordable accredited option. Even if I just take a few classes here and there. One day I will have a fully respectable bible degree that I may use for the Lord in the future if needed. And if not I will have the knowledge for my own personal understanding and reasons .

    That I may ultimately learn how to serve the Lord properly. For my own personal edification; and finally to learn how to serve others around me properly.

    This way since I am going to do it. I mine as well have something to show for it when I’m done. Something inside still has a hint of maybe going with an extremely affordable and respectable non-accredited bible college for simply knowledge and personal hobby like reasons.

    At the end of the day I will probably go with Affordable Accredited Option! Never know where the future may take me!

    Best,
    ChristianMaker
     
    #35 ChristianMaker, Dec 19, 2011
  16. jaigner

    jaigner Active Member

    Joined:
    Nov 19, 2009
    Messages:
    2,274
    Likes Received:
    0
    I don't agree with them about a lot of things, but Moody is way, way better than most of those links you posted. It is a historic and committed Christian institution and they have many fine people teaching there.

    Moody's no Wheaton, Fuller, Regent or Gordon-Conwell, though.
     
    #36 jaigner, Dec 20, 2011
  17. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    Correction Liberty Home Bible is very affordable as well. Those were a lot of links to go through. Thats what I thought about Moody as well. I know they have a different view about Revelations but I don't think that is the end of the world. I am going to list my final choices shortly.
     
    #37 ChristianMaker, Dec 20, 2011
  18. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    Nothing is in any particular order …

    List Final: Bible Schools

    columbiaseminary
    - NA - Affordable - Good Reputation
    amesintl
    - NA - Affordable - Good Reputation
    nationsu
    - NA - Affordable - Good Reputation
    inste
    - NA - Affordable - Good Reputation
    satsonline
    - A - Affordable - Good Reputation
    lhbionline
    - A - Affordable - Good Reputation
    globaluniversity
    - A - Affordable - Good Reputation
    sebts
    - A - To Expensive - Good Reputation
    sebc
    - A - To Expensive - Good Reputation
    boycecollege
    - A - To Expensive - Good Reputation
    valorcollege
    - A - Affordable - Good Reputation
    covenantseminary
    - A - To Expensive - Good Reputation
    moody
    - A - Affordable - Good Reputation

    Misc: Sites or Books

    sbc.net/colleges
    bakersguide
    Walston’s Guide to Christian Distance Learning
    Geteducated

    My Picks: What I am leaning towards

    satsonline
    lhbionline
    globaluniversity
    moody

    I am still reading “Walston’s Guide to Christian Distance Learning” so things might change; but I am pretty much set on these schools because they are affordable to our budget. All I want is a very affordable respectable degree and I believe these schools can provide that. Remember this is more hobby driven than Pastoral driven. I am still seeking a college degree at my local community college and will transferring to a university once I complete my associates. I just want to take a couple of Christian classes here and there along the way while I purse my secular degree. This is for my own personal edification and for me to prepare myself for the service of the Lord in the future for whatever that may bring. I really appreciate everyone’s comments and look forward to growing with everyone in the future. Also please don’t hesitate to add last minute comments. Thank you everyone and have a wonderful day!

    And to everyone else that had concerns about my wife working too much. She is on a mission and is doing exactly what she wants to do. I told her not to take the second job but she insisted. Plus when I was making good money before I saved up some money. I also have extremely low interest loans that I can personally take out that are custom to me if needed. I am working part time and we are by no means struggling. As far as her family goes they asked us to move in. We had our own place but they are a little older in age and wanted some companionship. It was a win win for everyone. Not everyone fights with their family; some families love each other and look forward to spending time with each other. I’m sure our situation will change in the future but for right now this is where God wants everyone in our family to be. We just need to watch our pennies and make sure we do not get into a bad situation by being careless. However I do appreciate everyone’s concern. I can’t wait until I get my degree and can go into the work place once again as a paid professional and on my free time spread the word of God because I know how and I have the love in my heart.

    God bless everyone!
     
    #38 ChristianMaker, Dec 20, 2011
  19. Jkdbuck76

    Jkdbuck76 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Jan 8, 2007
    Messages:
    2,322
    Likes Received:
    71
    Technically, yes it is! :laugh:

    Re-read you sentence.
     
    #39 Jkdbuck76, Dec 20, 2011
  20. ChristianMaker

    ChristianMaker Member

    Joined:
    Dec 14, 2011
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    lol that was a good one!
     
    #40 ChristianMaker, Dec 20, 2011
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)
Page 2 of 3
Loading...