Looking for an economical alternative? Unlike the other universities listed on this site, the following is a state-licensed school but because it is none-Regionally Accredited, the institution offers good distance learning education for less than US$12,000.00

Rushmore University  Highly Recommended

If you attended an ordinary business school, as little a 5% of your curriculum would help you succeed in your career. In other words as little as 5% of your curriculum would be relevant, which means 95% would be irrelevant.

This in essence was the research finding of Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, as published in a 2002 article in a leading management journal on business education. He was also interviewed on this subject in the Economist, USA Today, Business Week, and many other newspapers. Click here to read his the >full 12,000 word article.

At Rushmore your curriculum will be 100% relevant. This is because you design your own curriculum (with the help of our faculty). This means 100% of the time you spend studying will be on material that will help you succeed in your career. You will not have to study subjects that you already know or do not need to know. You will spend all your time on subjects that will help you reach your short-term and long-term goals.

Recognition by Business
Graduates of elite business schools are usually hired by Fortune 500 and other organizations because of the very selective admission process of their school, and the power of their large alumni networks, not because of what they have learned in their program.

Graduates of ordinary business schools are usually hired (and earn raises and promotions) by Fortune 500 and other organizations because of their work experience, not because of what they have learned in their program. The above conclusions are based on Professor Pfeffer's research.

Graduates of Rushmore are hired, promoted, and earn raises at Fortune 500 and other organizations because of what they learned in their 100% custom program, which allowed them to design their own curriculum with the help of our faculty. Their specialized programs were 100% relevant to their goals and/or their employers' needs.

Rushmore students work for some of the largest organizations in the world including Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Motorola, Delta Airlines, Walt Disney, Ericsson, Verizon, Accenture, Baxter, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Nokia, Amazon.com, Exxon-Mobil, Guinness, NCR, Chevron, Alcatel, Sony, Honda, Dow Chemical, Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, Allianz, SBC Communications, Boeing, Cap Gemini America, Haliburton, Konica, 3M, Audi, AT&T, Sprint, JVC, Enron, Accenture, Abbott Laboratories, Lexis-Nexis, Sears Roebuck, Schlumberger-GeoQuest, Nestle, Siemens AG, Rockwell Automation, Lucent Technologies, Chase Manhattan, Liz Claiborne, JP Morgan, Bristol-Myers and Ernst & Young.

Many of these companies are paying their employees' fees at Rushmore. See countries and companies for a longer list of organizations represented in our student body.
 

Our recommendation

Know your priorities. If universal recognition is a prime motivator, consider taking your degree at a regionally accredited school. Some companies demand nothing less.

But if you're simply after education at a lower cost, you may opt for these state-licensed licensed schools. Yes, they're perfectly legal and coursework at these colleges can be as demanding... but with the benefit of vastly lower prices.