BLUEFIELD, Va. — Bluefield College has reduced its tuition and fees for degree completion students by 25 percent.
Tuition for inSPIRE degree completion students will now run $325 per credit hour, compared to $385 per credit hour last spring, a 16 percent reduction. In addition, inSPIRE students will receive a free netbook computer and complimentary e-textbooks as part of the tuition package for a total reduction of 25 percent.
Before the tuition adjustment students paid roughly $15,360 in annual tuition and fees, including books. Now they’ll pay just $11,600 annually, which includes the netbook computer and e-books.
Bluefield College launched its degree completion program on its main campus in 1990. Designed to offer the working adult a convenient, flexible, accelerated, non-traditional way to finish their bachelor’s degree, the program included one degree offering — management — at that time.
Today, the program, now called inSPIRE, is offered in Roanoke and Richmond, Va., as well. The program now features a complete online format for its four baccalaureate degree offerings in management and leadership, public safety, human services and nursing.
The first of the reduced rate classes begin Oct. 24. For more information, click on www.bluefield.edu/inspire.
Chris Shoemaker (cshoemaker@bluefield.edu) is director of marketing and public relations at Bluefield College.