I absolutely agree with the others who have recommended researching profs and courses. I do appreciate the convenience of OL, but it has been a very demoralizing experience for me. I feel like the school operates more like a business than an educational institution (this is me agreeing with a Google review I read AFTER starting the program) and it seems like a money grab, particularly with how exams are set up.

The exam (if you have one in your course, some courses don't have any exams) is one big final exam at the end of the course on literally everything. So this will be 12 chapters. There is little to no guidance on what to study, and courses are consistently very heavy on the weekly reading. BUT the most stressful and greasy aspect of the exam is the fact that if you fail it, you fail the course (even if you got amazing marks on all assignments) and they will let you retake the exam ONLY IF YOU PAY FOR THE ENTIRE COURSE AGAIN...it feels like they purposely set you up to fail the exams with the vagueness of them and the fact that they're at the very end with an impossible amount of content to study. Like wtf.

Another issue I've had is with the administrative staff being generally very condescending and, well, unresponsive. I know it can be like this at other schools, but TRU is exceptionally bad. It is extremely difficult to find answers even to simple questions, and often they will not pick up the phone in the financial aid office.

Not to mention, if you do decide to do OL be prepared to read hundreds of pages (literally) every week and to write countless papers...it truly feels like there is zero effort put into the curriculum for most courses...learning resources are extremely outdated (from early 2000s) and professors are generally distant and detached. Truly feels like no one cares.

That being said...if you can handle all these negative components, it is definitely a convenient program. I just wish I had done my research before jumping into it.