Many colleges and universities offer courses either online or by DVD/correspondence. Check with the schools you would like to attend and see what they offer.

Other than places like University of Phoenix and the other schools that charge an outrageous amount for tuition, it isn’t so easy to earn your entire degree online, in ANYthing. The two state universities in my area offer maybe 12 hours out of the 30 hours required for an accounting degree. They offer a few of the lower level business courses, but almost none of the upper level courses. Sometimes they’ll offer the first semester of a 2-semester sequence online, then only offer the second semester on campus.

Before you jump on the vocational/technical/community college bandwagon, have another look at your career goals. If you want to become a CPA, you have to have a bachelor’s degree with 30 or more hours of accounting. If you already have a bachelor’s in some other field, the 30 hours of accounting at a community college MIGHT satisfy your state’s accountancy board so that you can eventually sit for the CPA exam. If you’re going for your first-ever bachelor’s degree, you’ll usually find that only your first 2 accounting courses are considered equivalent to a course at a 4-year college. So if you get an associate degree in accounting and try to transfer to a 4-year school to finish a bachelor’s, as much as 24 of your 30 hours of accounting will be thrown out and you’ll have to retake the classes.