Penn Foster Career School

GET INFO!

Overview

Founded in 1890, Penn Foster Career School has a long and successful history of providing correspondence (distance learning) programs to its students. Well before the internet or the explosion of online schooling, Penn Foster Career School was providing innovative educational solutions to help students further their education and careers. As of today, Penn Foster Career School offers a first-in-class U.S. regionally and nationally-accredited career school. All programs are offered online and allow you to learn at your own pace.

Academics

Penn Foster Career School offers many academic options, covering student needs for a variety of career programs.  For those serious about beginning their path towards a new career, Penn Foster Career School offers over 50 Career Diploma and 30 Certificate Programs ranging from Automotive, Business, Creative/Design, Drafting, Education, Health Services, Legal Studies, Natural Health, Technology, and and other Trades. Incredibly, in 2015, Penn Foster Career School’s self paced learning model has helped over 10,000 students achieve a career certificate or diploma across a variety of industries.

Social Life

Penn Foster Career School is focused on providing a wide variety of flexible options in the online learning space, and is by no means a social club. Penn Foster Career School is an institution choosing to focus on academics and the student experience, instead of having lavish campuses or a traditional scholastic setting. Still, Penn Foster Career School manages to provide a dynamic scholastic community. With educators increasingly relying on the online experience as the better educational path, shared online learning is the new dimension in the educational experience. The Penn Foster community brings together instructors, future students, alumni, parents, and members of the military.

Campus

Again, Penn Foster Career School is not a “campus” school in the traditional sense of the word, but it does manage to deliver a dynamic online campus environment to its students. Penn Foster Career School won the prestigious 2013 Social Media Leadership “Voice of the Future” Award, as a premier online student community. Discussion groups, academic groups, and faculty and student interactions seamlessly integrate to provide this virtual campus experience.

Final Review

Penn Foster Career School covers levels of the scholastic ladder for those looking to achieve a career-focused education.  The ability to learn at your own pace, study from the comfort of your own chosen environment, and choose from a wide array of programs in the career education space, makes Penn Foster Career School one of the most flexible and accessible education options in the United States. And its support system, through its online campus community, ensures that students are never isolated or left to learn on their own.

GET INFO!