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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
India to Indiana: Purdue Ph.D. Student Is Thriving With Help From Modern States
When Purdue University student Abhishek Sharma wanted to devote his time to computer-science research rather than the general-education classes required for his major, he turned to Modern States. Our philanthropy offers a free online collection of college-professor-led, freshman-level classes tied to the College Board’s College Level Examination Program (CLEP). Passing CLEP test scores can be […]
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Meet Isaac Fox
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