ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- StraighterLine, the leading provider of affordable, self-paced college courses and University of the People, the world's first tuition-free, accredited ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- StraighterLine, an online education platform that makes it easy for students to take virtual courses for college credit, announced today its new ...

StraighterLine has has added five new science courses and four new science professors to its science department, bringing the online college course provider's total number of available science courses ...

StraighterLine today announced that it is building a "next generation market" for its low-price online offerings, according to a news release. Burck Smith, the founder and CEO, said via e-mail that ...

As alternatives to the college diploma have been bandied about recently, one question always seems to emerge: How do you validate badges or individual classes as a credential in the absence of a ...

Burck Smith — Baltimore Friends High School graduate, resident of Charm City’s Homeland neighborhood, repeat entrepreneur — is a thought leader in the online college education conversation. When ...

It was the fall of 2010, and I was taking an introductory macroeconomics course. As I sat at my computer clicking through the lesson presentation for Chapter Eight: Basic Macroeconomic Relationships, ...

Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for ...

A growing number of students are taking courses offered by unaccredited private companies and completing them in a matter of days or weeks — often for less than $200 — and then transferring the ...