We started looking at other school options for Lorena because of the low quality of the community college system here in Texas. The criteria we are using to find something for Lorena are things like cost, accreditation, location (whether the school is one where we might envision ourselves living so should attend on campus some day), the regional and national reputation of the school (the rankings by institutions like US News are almost always completely bogus). We loved the Rankings done by the National Research Council when we looked for graduate schools in Electrical Engineering for the Christian, but Lorena is working on an undergraduate degree in business and they do not rank business schools nor undergraduate degrees.
What we found is that both Arizona State University and Oregon State University have stellar online bachelors degree programs in business. Arizona State has a significantly better business school, but either would be perfect for our needs. Both schools would accept the bulk of Lorena’s credits from her community college experience and there is a good chance we would be willing to land in either place for a year or two (if I retire or get a work from home job) so she could finish up on campus. We are going to continue looking, but at least we have some options that are profoundly better than the community college we investigated here in Texas.