by Chris Cumo

HARCOURT LEARNING DIRECT began in 1890, offering courses by mail to coal miners in Scranton, Pennsylvania who hoped to complete high school or train for management. Since then Harcourt has gone on-line, attracting students throughout the U.S. More than 11 million students have taken courses through Harcourt in programs that lead to Associate degrees in business management, accounting, computer repair, child care and the like.

Students can complete a program in as little as six months, though they may take as long as two years. Because nearly all students enroll part-time, they usually need at least one year to complete a program. The cost for a program is as little as $499, though others run higher. The accounting program, for example, costs $699 per semester and requires four semesters to complete, for a total expenditure of nearly $2,800. Even this amount is inexpensive considering that a single year of tuition at Bennington College in Vermont costs more than $25,000.

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