<p>I’m looking for an online school thats good for transferring to a CSU. The thing is i dont know where to start since this is my first time looking for an online school. I’ve seen pages about some online schools being a diploma mill or a scam so I need someone that knows from experience. Which online schools are good for transferring to a CSU. Low tuition would also be good.</p>
<p>We have had a number of students in your exact situation, who have started with us and been successful at a four-year school. I work a school called Ivy Bridge College (so I’m biased), but what you are describing is exactly what we do. </p>
<p>The mission of the school is to assist students, just like you, who will do their first two year’s online with us and then transfer to the four year college of their choice to complete their bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>We have transfer agreement with over 140 colleges including schools (like Pepperdine, and Arizona State University), which ensure that you will be able to get in and transfer your credits. Many students have also transferred to schools that we don’t have direct agreements with, like the CSU’s.</p>
<p>The College is affiliated with Tiffin University, which was founded in 1888, so we are clearly not a fly-by-night diploma mill. </p>
<p>You can find out more about the program at [Ivy</a> Bridge College - America’s Transfer College](<a href=“http://ivybridge.tiffin.edu%5DIvy”>http://ivybridge.tiffin.edu)</p>
<p>Is there a reason you need online vs a brick-n-mortar on-campus experience for the first two years? I ask, because once you transfer to the CSU, that will be a primarily on-campus experience as well.</p>
<p>I think Ivy Bridge fails the “low tuition” mark in comparison to the California community colleges. Each year at IB will cost approximately 8500 in tuition compared to just 1400 at a CCC. A CCC is still one of the lowest cost options around. </p>
<p>Also, since IB is out of state from California, when you try to apply to a CSU, you will be considered an OOS transfer student and be looked at LAST for transfer. All the in-state CCC students will be given spots first… if the spots fill up before they look at the OOS students, you will be out of luck. That’s another reason to seriously consider the CCC system if you live here in California.</p>
<p>And finally, while you will be taking 60 credits at IB for transfer, you will probably end up having to re-take some credits or being short credits. The one problem I see right away is that CSUs require that one of your two science classes have a LAB component–something that I don’t see on a short cruise through the IB website and have a hard time imagining could be offered in a online course.</p>
<p>IB may be the right solution for many students. I guess I am suggesting the CCC system still as the most direct and cost-effect route available for students who can attend in person. (And CCCs do offer at least some of their courses online now.)</p>