Posts by Dave Bergman:

Online Degrees While on Disability: SSDI, Financial Aid, and Work Incentives

Posted on: 03 Apr 2026

Pursuing a college degree while receiving Social Security disability benefits involves navigating a set of overlapping rules that most guides get partially wrong. The concern most people have — that going to school will automatically trigger a review of their disability status or reduce their benefits — reflects a real risk that exists in specific […]

Verizon Lifelong Learning: Online Degrees for Verizon Employees

Posted on: 03 Apr 2026

Verizon offers $8,000 per year in tuition assistance to full-time employees. That is a higher annual cap than almost any major U.S. employer, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, Walmart, Starbucks, and most of the large employers that have built tuition benefit programs in the last decade. Part-time employees working 20 to 29 hours per week receive […]

Best Online Universities With Generous Transfer Credit Policies

Posted on: 03 Apr 2026

For adult learners who have accumulated college credits across multiple institutions, military service, professional certifications, or independent study, transfer credit acceptance is often the single most important factor in choosing an online university. A generous transfer policy can reduce a four-year degree timeline to one year or less and cut total tuition cost by $10,000 […]

LPN to RN Online: How to Make the Jump Without Quitting Your Job

Posted on: 02 Apr 2026

The salary gap between LPN and RN is one of the most significant credential-to-credential pay jumps in healthcare. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the May 2024 median for licensed practical nurses at $62,340 and the median for registered nurses at $93,600. That is a difference of more than $31,000 per year, compounding over the […]

Does Your Degree Pay Off Over Time?

Posted on: 02 Apr 2026

How Earnings Grow (or Stall) from Year 6 to Year 10 Most college rankings use a single salary snapshot. The Scorecard tracks earnings over five time horizons—revealing which schools’ graduates keep climbing and which ones hit a ceiling. When families evaluate the financial return on a college degree, they almost always look at a single […]

How Close Are You to Finishing an Online Degree? (Credit Calculator)

Posted on: 02 Apr 2026

Millions of American adults are somewhere in the middle of a degree — not finished, not walking away, just stuck in the gap between credits already earned and credits still needed. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, approximately 36 million adults in the U.S. have some college credit and no degree. If that’s […]

Best Online Computer Science Degrees for Non-Traditional Students

Posted on: 01 Apr 2026

Most online lists of best computer science degrees are written with a generic student in mind, typically assuming a recent high school graduate or community college transfer. That isn’t who’s reading this guide. If you’re a career changer moving from teaching, nursing, or construction into software development, you have different needs than a traditional student. […]

Online College Review: Pepperdine University Online

Posted on: 01 Apr 2026

Pepperdine University is a private nonprofit university founded in 1937 in Malibu, California, affiliated with the Churches of Christ and accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) — the same body that accredits Stanford, the University of California system, and the University of Southern California. It is ranked by U.S. News as […]