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Meet Tayah
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Unlocking Your Career Passion With Free College Courses
Figuring out what you want to do with your life isn’t easy, and it can be awfully expensive when you guess wrong. Many people enter college with no idea what their passion is or what career path best suits them. Often, they choose a major that doesn’t pan out, wasting a lot of time and […]
Modern States and Norfolk State University Unite to Increase College Access for Virginians
Modern States today announced the launch of its Fast Start program with Norfolk State University (NSU). The program is designed to help high school students in Virginia and current NSU students earn up to a year of college credit at no cost. The partnership between the two organizations is the latest in Modern States’ commitment […]
The $1,000 Degree
Asked how much money he spent on college, Tim Hellwig responded: “That’s the million dollar question right there.” He then gave a $1,000 dollar answer. “It only ended up costing me about $1,000 for a 120-credit, four-year computer science degree,” Hellwig, 28, said in an interview. “That’s insane, right? No one expects that but it’s […]
Meet Amanda Allen
Hear from learner Amanda Allen about how she is using Modern States to earn free college credit.
College Board’s ‘SECRET’ Test: Earning College Credits Early Using CLEP
Pulitzer Prize-winner and Executive Director of Modern States, David Vise, joins Naka in a captivating episode discussing how students can take advantage of a lesser-known College Board test that has been around for over 50 years to gain college credit early and save THOUSANDS of dollars in tuition!
CLEP and Modern States Are There for Students When Advanced Placement Isn’t an Option
Advanced Placement (AP) courses help many high school students get ahead in their studies, though only if their schools participate in the program. Modern States exists for everyone, including AP students. A philanthropy, Modern States offers 32 completely free online courses that prepare learners for the College Board’s College Level Examination Program (CLEP). Passing CLEP […]
President Series: Purdue’s growth tied to ‘keeping students at center of bullseye’
What are the areas you’d like to see Purdue improve on in the next few years? … We’ve got a program that we started a year and a half ago called Fast Start. Students can essentially do freshman year for free and finish that degree in three residential years. We’ve got to be very open-minded […]
Earning Advance College Credit
Millions complain about costly college tuition and soaring student debt. On “Tests and the Rest,” David Vise, who runs Modern States “Freshman Year for Free,” reveals real proven ways you can slash the cost of college now.
For Some Modern States Students, Earning a Degree Is About Reaching Goals, Love of Learning
At Modern States, we want people to use our free college-level courses however they see fit, because continued learning is vital for both the health of our world and each of us as individuals. While for some students, earning a college degree means access to a higher paying career, for others it is simply about […]
How to Get Your Associate’s Degree Before Graduating High School
And a bachelor’s degree on your 19th birthday; and an MBA five months later Ahmad Salem is doing life his way, and he’s crushing it. Full of motivation, Salem was a 16-year-old high-school junior when he began working full-time in retail after school and during weekends. A native of Jackson, Tennessee, his plan was to […]
