Monday, April 18, 2011

Where Can I Go to Find Which Colleges Offer Online Courses?

Culinary arts colleges offer a variety of courses, both online and in brick and mortar schools.  If you are not sure that a culinary arts degree is exactly where you want your major to be, you can investigate what other types of courses are offered online.  There are websites that will list both career college and four year colleges that offer a variety of online courses.   That way you can see if there are courses related to culinary arts that might fit into a smaller, less competitive niche market.  One such website that offers information on online degree programs  is Find Your Education.  This site is geared specifically toward informing you about the types of general career college courses that are offered online.  It will provide you with a series of topics about online courses ranging from business, to criminal justice, nursing, education, culinary arts colleges and more.

There are different types of college degrees offered online.  As an example, if your interest is still geared toward culinary arts or you have an interest in cooking for a specific group of people, one online degree that may be a good branch off of a culinary arts college education would be one that provides fitness and nutritional health guidelines for senior citizens.  Many who may find that culinary arts is too broad of a field might want to consider this rapidly growing niche market.  Baby boomers are retiring at a very rapid pace and there are many business fields that will be needed to cater to their existing and up and coming needs.  Online degree programs in nutrition offer such a career path.

You may be wondering how you can pay to attend an online culinary arts college or any other online college course for that matter.   There is assistance available.  One website to check out would be this student aid website:  http://studentaid2.ed.gov/gotocollege/collegefinder/advanced_find.asp  On the site, you can plug in information pertinent to the type of career college or even four year college that you are thinking of attending.  Once you enter some basic information, the site will return additional suggestions for you and will give you the facts that you need to see how much financial aid you may qualify for.  This is a helpful, easy and convenient site to visit.

 

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