I have a friend who works for one and they actually have a brick and mortar campus, intructors go there and work out of the place, some students go there. They have a staff of workers 24/7/365. They are accredited and licensed by the state.
But their name on the diploma doesn’t carry the weight of known schools.
As times go by and schools make money they sometimes strive to be better.
About 30 years ago some people started Guitar Institute in a shabby old building in Hollywood. They branched out to include bass, keyboards, singing, engineering.
Now they own a building and are affiliated with Los Angeles City College and award in association with LACC, a BA in some courses and it is fully accredited becasue of the weight of LACC.
Now that is not a virtual school, but it started off as a trade school or tutorial system and now it’s a full fledge college.
What happens with this is you have to start hiring teachers that have MA and MS degrees for the accredited classes and to get those kinds of teachers you have to pay competitively.
Eventually virtual schools will do this, especially since they now have to COMPLETE with established colleges that offer on-line courses and many ESTABLISHED colleges offer on-line course.
But, you will also see the get your PH D in 18 months teasers disapear.
I was told you can go to MIT, pay the course fees, take the finals and if you pass it you get the credits. Technically you can get an MIT BS Degree in six months just by paying the $200,000 in fees and passing each class final exam.
So a BS degree in six months or less is technically possible, but it means somewhere down the line you learned that stuff.
It means you learned it on your own and your knowledge = their syllubus.
Well, the Open University in Great Britain has been a correspondence school since before the internet was widely available in homes. It has a very good reputation in Britain – better than many traditional universities. It’s got a campus, and they require science students to come for labs for intensive work a week or two each year, but in that they don’t conduct undergraduate lectures on campus, it’s more like an online university than a traditional brick-and-mortar university.
I’m an adjunct at Franklin University in Ohio. We offer both face-to-face and online courses — and they are the same courses, with only minor changes to adjust to the online versions. Bit by bit, the number of credit hours provided online has overtaken the credit hours offered in class. Look for a regionally accredited school, and the oxymoron goes away.
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University of Phoenix has both brick and mortar and on line college courses. The courses are accredited. I attended both. I do understand what you are meaning though. I received offers for degrees by colleges on line for a price instead of for any learning efforts.