An online bachelor's degree offers many benefits – convenience, the ability to maintain a full-time job outside of school, flexible hours and a unique learning environment – but is cost one of them?

One of the biggest debates in higher education right ... they still find a college degree valuable, but something gives them cause for concern. That something is likely cost.

Free college could easily amount to starving public institutions, Baum told me, since charging no tuition does nothing to bring down the cost of higher education. Consider community colleges ...