With the busyness of our modern lives and the advent of the internet, one rising trend is that of online education. (This is one modern trend I can get excited about!) One such education provider is one I hadn’t even heard of until today – apparently because I’m on the East Coast and this school is on the West Coast.

Gonzaga University is located in Spokane. I guess I must have had my head buried in the sand or something (or am not business-oriented enough), because the Catholic university has received considerable recommendation. US News and World Report ranked it number 3 in the West. The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine both rank it as one of the nation’s best universities. And Kiplingers Personal Finance calls it a “best value” among private universities. Who knew?

Many prominent brick-and-mortar universities have been hesitant to “go online,” fearing that this would somehow diminish the quality of their programs, but Gonzaga, which offers online master degrees, has not found this to be the case. In fact, their program attracts many skilled, experienced professionals who are prohibited from taking advantage of other programs because of their work or home responsibilities.  Gonzaga’s degrees are, unfortunately, in business, leadership, and nursing, which are probably not particularly useful programs for most of my readers.  I think this is encouraging news, though – if this well-established university is going online, perhaps it will not be long before others will, as well, putting a greater variety of degree options into our hands.

This is also good news for us homeschoolers – society is beginning to realize that a “traditional education” is not necessarily the only way.

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