I think the perks will differ from person to person. I personally LOVE online classes because I don't have to drive to a physical campus. I get really bad anxiety driving so the fact that I don't have to worry about getting to campus, finding parking, and walk to class on time is great for me. Also, I like doing school work at odd times during the day so not having to be in class at a specific time really works for me.

Other the other hand, I know people who do better in person and HATE the online aspect of it.

I'm about ten classes in so far and every professor has offered 1 on 1 video chat appointments. All of the TAs I've had have been extremely helpful as well!

I’ve been doing ASU for a year now and honestly it’s the only reason I’m still with the company. It works the same as any other college and the professors that I’ve had are all very professional and really good. All of them have offered office hours for students to contact them if need be, generally over a zoom call. The university itself also offers tutors, writing help, and everything else that a college has to help its students. The only thing is staying on top of assignments, time management is key to online classes. The only thing that I’ve had to pay out of pocket is books, which can get pretty pricey, but there’s a few websites and stuff that offer free pdf’s. Can’t beat free college man.

I tried the pathway to admissions and manage to finish 1 of the 3 classes I signed up for. I'm not sure how actual classes go for when you are admitted formally into the school but dear lord I stuggled with it.

The one economics class I took was taught by 3 different professors and all the quizzes they had loaded for the end of each week contained information that was planned for the next week, stuff I couldn't even access. Come every Tuesday and I'm watching the video lessons, I would get insanely frustrated thinking "well that would've helped last week". Absolutely no consistency between the three of them, either.

Also they had terrible quality control on their videos. Instead of editing out word stumbles and actual mathematical mistakes they would make, they would keep it in there and you would literally see them be like "oh wait thats wrong". My boyfriend watched one of these lessons with me and legit thought it was a scam school for a second. I was pulling my hair out by the time week 3 or 4 rolled around and I ended up dropping it.

One of the English courses (the one I finished) was self graded and you relied on feedback from the other registered students. AKA no one held you accountable if you just said fuck it I'm fabulous and my writing is absolutely perfect, hundreds for me! I didn't realize it till I finished the course and had literally no feedback from any staff online. Every single grade I fairly gave myself was exactly what my grade ended up being.

The last class I took I forgot what it was but I didn't even bother paying the 50 dollar fee to lock in the class as a credit, previewed the first day and saw it was gonna be a real similar schtick to the econ class and I noped the fuck out.


All in all, some folks love it and I'm really happy for them but my experience was terrible. I would rather put myself in debt again to go back to an on campus school, actually talking to people and being in the classroom with my professors.