<p>I am a US high school student. For eleventh grade, I will be taking dual enrollment courses at the college of my choice. Due to my attendance of a cyber school, I may attend either traditional classes or online courses. </p>
<p>My ideal course provider is Cambridge University – Evidently, from a distant learning perspective. Now, granted, I’ve just begun to research this matter. I apologize for the ignorance of this question, but: Would I be able to take undergrad dual enrollment (online) courses through Cambridge University? </p>
<p>Thank you so much for your time! xx</p>
<p>Cambridge (and Oxford) operates through a tutorial system, where you will sit down on a regular basis with your tutor and talk about the subject at hand. Obviously this is incompatible with online learning, and they don’t offer any distance learning options at the moment.</p>
<p>[Online</a> courses at Cambridge - University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education](<a href=“http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/courses/online-courses]Online”>Online Courses and Distance Learning | Uni of Cambridge)</p>
<p>Would these courses qualify as college credits?</p>
<p>PS sorry to put the kaibosh on it!</p>
<p>The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) at Cambridge is a gateway for a few degree-granting programs and certificates, but otherwise is more about community outreach and educational opportunities for those who aren’t seeking a degree and only seek an evening/weekend course here and there.</p>
<p>The online courses you’ve referenced aren’t for degree-credit.</p>
<p>But even ICE’s degree-granting programs aren’t done through distance learning. Cambridge is against distance learning. They do offer graduate degrees (MPhil, MSt, PhD, etc.) on a part-time basis but these aren’t distance learning and involve extensive periods of residence in Cambridge. Again though, not distance learning.</p>
<p>Concepts like “dual enrollment” and “online learning” are quite alien to Cambridge’s teaching approach.</p>
<p>Where will you be “dual enrolled?” In a high school AND in a college? That’s not what Cambridge is looking for, they are looking for people who are finished with what Americans call “high school”.</p>
<p>I am sure that if you work at it you will be able to get into Cambridge when you finish high school.</p>
<p>Remember that first year students at a British uni, especially Cambridge, know a great deal more than first year students at a US uni. What American students learn their first year of uni, British students are expected to already know.</p>
<p>So my suggestion is that you work on learning these things that you will be expected to have learned before Cambridge. Use your dual enrollment to get courses from an American university. You will eventually be taking AP tests (or else SAT subject tests) to get into Cambridge, so focus on getting what you will need to pass those tests.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>