Online College Comparison - Penn Foster Career School

• Regionally and nationally accredited Penn Foster Career School, the world’s largest accredited school of independent home study, has educated millions of adults through its accredited study-at-home programs. The school offers training in the fields of health care, technology, business, automotive technology and the construction trades.
   
• Since 1890, Penn Foster Career School has been the distance educator of choice for over 13,000,000 students who needed the right skills to begin a new career, start their own business, or qualify for a pay raise or promotion.
   
• Penn Foster is an attractive option for busy adults because students complete all of their course work from home. There is no classroom requirement.
   
• Tuition covers everything students need to complete the program - study materials, textbooks, learning aids, tools, grading and instructor support.
   
• Founded in 1890 as a Pennsylvania distance learning school in the age of phonographs and paper-based courses (one penned by Thomas Edison), Penn Foster has graduated over 10 million students in over a century, including the founder of Chrysler Motors, the inventor of Scotch Tape and two U.S. senators.
   
• In 2006, the school began offering limited certificate and career diploma programs online, such as medical transcriptionist, medical billing and coding, and PC repair. Through its online system, students progress at their own pace - without deadlines - in their own learning environment, while exchanging ideas online with instructors and students via chat rooms and message boards.
   
• More than 60 percent of Penn Foster’s faculty is full time, and all members are available at various hours from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. (EST) to answer questions and chat with students.

Accreditation

Penn Foster Career School is regionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools and nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC).

Experience

Penn Foster has over 115 years experience training students from all over the world via home study.

Support

Instructor support for students and parents is available by phone or email. With the online testing option, students can get instant feedback on their exams.

Flexibility

Students can enroll anytime and work at their own pace. Students can study online, in print or a combination of both.

“We get all types of people in our programs,” says a Penn Foster enrollment advisor, “but the students who excel do so because they push themselves. Our programs give them an avenue for success and they jump on it.”