2018 Most Affordable Online Colleges for English Degrees
Offering online bachelor's degrees in English for under $13,000 a year, these 25 schools are the most affordable options for distance learners. Students can obtain an online Bachelor of Arts in English from #1-ranked Ohio Christian University for a yearly tuition of only $5,940. Available classes include History and Nature of the English Language, Literary Criticism, and Studies in Shakespeare. Clayton State University, ranked #2, offers an online bachelor's in English program for only $7,040 per year.
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| Rank | College | Annual Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Ohio Christian University | Annual Tuition $5,940 | |
| #2 Clayton State University | Annual Tuition $7,040 | |
| #3 The Baptist College of Florida | Annual Tuition $7,200 | |
| #4 Great Basin College | Annual Tuition $7,282 | |
| #5 Clarion University | Annual Tuition $8,092 | |
| #6 American Public University System | Annual Tuition $8,100 | |
| #7 Nicholls State University | Annual Tuition $8,250 | |
| #8 Columbia College | Annual Tuition $9,150 | |
| #9 (tie) Holy Apostles | Annual Tuition $9,600 | |
| #9 (tie) Southern New Hampshire University Online | Annual Tuition $9,600 | |
| #11 Wichita State University | Annual Tuition $9,612 | |
| #12 Troy University | Annual Tuition $10,140 | |
| #13 Granite State College | Annual Tuition $10,350 | |
| #14 Eastern Oregon University | Annual Tuition $10,440 | |
| #15 Antioch University Online | Annual Tuition $10,500 | |
| #16 Indiana University - East | Annual Tuition $10,784 | |
| #17 University of Central Florida | Annual Tuition $10,866 | |
| #18 King University | Annual Tuition $10,980 | |
| #19 Assumption College | Annual Tuition $11,130 | |
| #20 Washington State University | Annual Tuition $11,335 | |
| #21 University of Massachusetts-Lowell | Annual Tuition $11,400 | |
| #22 Regent University Online | Annual Tuition $11,850 | |
| #23 University of Illinois at Springfield | Annual Tuition $12,217 | |
| #24 Mercy College | Annual Tuition $12,360 | |
| #25 Rogers State University | Annual Tuition $12,670 |
- Annual Tuition: $5,940
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC and ABHE
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
18th Century Novel; Editing Essentials; History and Nature of the English Language; Literary Criticism; Modern Rhetorical Theory; Studies in Shakespeare
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $7,040
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 41%
- Example Classes:
British Literature Before 1660; Careers in Writing; Critical Theory; Cultural Rhetorics; Exploring Socio-Culture Perspectives; Introduction to Literary Studies
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $7,200
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 59%
- Example Classes:
Advanced Composition: Theory and Practice; American Prose Writers: World War I - Present; Colonial American Literature; Creative Nonfiction: Writing About Spiritual Experiences; Studies in the Short Story; The Humanities: Ancient to Medieval
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $7,282
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
Introduction to Children's Literature; News Reporting and Writing; Principles of Modern Grammar; Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Literature; The Rhetoric of Everyday Texts
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $8,092
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Acceptance Rate: 94%
- Example Classes:
American Literature; Early British Literature; Early World Literature; Intro. to African-American Literature; Later British Literature
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $8,100
- School Type: For-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC and DEAC
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
Freelance Writing; History of the American Indian; The Personal Essay; The Work and Life of Ernest Hemingway; World Literature since the Renaissance; World Literature Through the Renaissance
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $8,250
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 83%
- Example Classes:
Bayou Literature and Culture; Digital Rhetorics–Theory and Practice, and Publishing; Eighteenth Century Literature; History of Rhetoric from the Classical Period to the Present; The Literature of the Middle Ages; Topics in Film
Online Bachelor's Degrees (3)
- Annual Tuition: $9,150
- School Type: For-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
Descriptive Grammar of the English Language; Ethnic Traditions in American Literature; Literary Theory and Criticism; Major Literary Figures; Major Literary Periods; Readings in Shakespeare
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $9,600
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
Epistemology; Humanities in Ancient World; Humanities in Early Christian World; Logic; Moral Theology; Research and Writing
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $9,600
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Acceptance Rate: 93%
- Example Classes:
American Modernism; Graduate Seminar in Global Literature; Graduate Studies in Gender and Text; Graduate Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature; Graduate Studies in Post-Colonial Encounters; Nonfiction Writing Workshop; Playwriting Workshop; Poetry Writing Workshop; Shakespeare; The English Language
Online Bachelor's Degrees (7)
- Annual Tuition: $9,612
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Acceptance Rate: 86%
- Example Classes:
Creative Nonfiction Writing; Fiction Writing; Major British Writers; Poetry Writing; Theory and Practice in Composition; Writer’s Tutorial: Prose Fiction
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
#12
Troy University
- Annual Tuition: $10,140
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 91%
- Example Classes:
Advanced Grammar; American Literature before 1875; British Literature before 1785; History of the English Language; Introduction to Linguistics; Technical and Professional Editing
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $10,350
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
Conducting Critical Inquiry; Gender in Literature and Film; Great Civilizations; Multicultural Perspectives through Literature; Short Fiction; The Media and its Messages
Online Bachelor's Degrees (5)
- BA in English
- BA in English Language Arts
- BA In English Language Arts - Elementary Education and General Special Education Certificate
- BA in English Language Arts - Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Certification
- BA in English Language Arts - General Special Education Certificate
- Annual Tuition: $10,440
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Acceptance Rate: 97%
- Example Classes:
Approaches to Grammar; Introduction to Rhetoric; Literacy, Discrimination, and Power; Multicultural Literature and Film; Writing in the Community
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $10,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Acceptance Rate: Not Provided
- Example Classes:
History of the English Language; Mixed Race Women's Memoirs; Multi-Genre Writing; Shakespeare; Short Story Writing; Social Media & Social Change
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $10,784
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Acceptance Rate: 60%
- Example Classes:
American Ethnic and Minority Literature; American Fiction to 1900; Literary Interpretation; Native American Literature; Studies in British or Commonwealth; Technical Editing
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $10,866
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 50%
- Example Classes:
Continental European Fiction Since 1900; Harlem, Haiti, and Havana; Hypertext Theory and Design; Literature of the South; Methods of Bibliography and Research; Milton and His Age; Modern Drama As Literature; Nineteenth Century British Prose; Production and Publication Methods; Proposal Writing
Online Bachelor's Degrees (3)
#18
King University
- Annual Tuition: $10,980
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 51%
- Example Classes:
Adolescent Literature; Appalachian Literature; British Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century; Faith and the Literary Imagination; Rhetorical and Narrative Patterns; Survey of World Literature
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,130
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Acceptance Rate: 78%
- Example Classes:
American Cinema from the 60s; Romanticism; Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances; Special Topics: A Literary Tour of Ireland; Special Topics: Theater of the Absurd; Topics in Film: Women and Film
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,335
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Acceptance Rate: 72%
- Example Classes:
Critical Theories, Methods, and Practice in Digital Humanities; English Literature of the 16th Century; Phonology; Seminar in Medieval Literature; Seminar in Prose Fiction; Topics in Composition and Rhetoric
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $11,400
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NEASC CIHE
- Acceptance Rate: 61%
- Example Classes:
English Studies in a Digital Environment; Great Books of the Modern Period; Monsters, Apes & Nightmares; Mystery Writing; Post Colonial Literature; The Gothic Tradition in Literature
Online Bachelor's Degrees (2)
- Annual Tuition: $11,850
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Acceptance Rate: 81%
- Example Classes:
Communication Ethics; English Renaissance Literature; Literature of the United States: Civil War Through the 21st Century; Studies in World Literature; The Art of the Essay; Victorian Literature
Online Bachelor's Degrees (10)
- Bachelor of Arts in English
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Biblical Studies
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Communication
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Government
- Bachelor of Arts in English - History
- Bachelor of Arts in English - History (Ancient-Medi...
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Secondary English Edu...
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Self-Designed
- Bachelor of Arts in English - Writing
- Bachelor of Science in Professional Studies - English
- Annual Tuition: $12,217
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Acceptance Rate: 65%
- Example Classes:
Calabash: Caribbean Literature and Culture; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Sociolinguistics and English Studies; Textual Criticism; Women Playwrights; Writing the Long Essay and the Nonfiction Chapter
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
#24
Mercy College
- Annual Tuition: $12,360
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Acceptance Rate: 78%
- Example Classes:
American Gothic; History of Poetic Forms; Humanism in Renaissance Texts; Literature of the Left Bank, Paris; Narrative Strategies in the Novel; Oral Performance of Literature; Science Fiction; Search for Identity in American Literature; The Structure/Form of English; Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
- Annual Tuition: $12,670
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NCA HLC
- Acceptance Rate: Open Admissions
- Example Classes:
English Grammar and Usage; Literary Traditions; Literature for Children and Young Adults; Poetry Writing; The Novel
Online Bachelor's Degrees (1)
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