Marco Polo University's Advantages
Over Conventional Universities

Celebrating Our Online University Status 

Marco Polo University celebrates the fact that it is one of only a relative few universities beginning the 21st century as a true “100% Online” university. That is important because it is exactly why our tuition is affordable for all students. We just don't have debts, depreciating assets, long-term liabilities, or the massive overhead conventional universities do. In fact, it is so affordable we have a “Zero Tolerance” toward student loans! We are trying to help you realize your dreams, not trap you into student loans for the next 10-30 years. 

A Bi-lingual University

Marco Polo University recognizes the vast importance for modern individuals to be fluent in English. We have expressed our recognition of this principle by:

• By providing all students the opportunity to learn English as a second language (ESL) for the cost of a simple lab fee (under 75 Euro provided the student is enrolled in a degree program at Marco Polo International University and completes the ELS program within the first year of enrollment. The degree program may be completed in the second year of enrollment without additional tuition penalty to allow for completion of both degree and ESL program).
  

• And, by making an absolutely firm commitment to make Marco Polo University one of the first truly bi-lingual English-Spanish online universities in the Americas, if not the world.
   

A True International University

With a changing world order and its resultant change in the flow of wealth and prestige, obtaining your degree from an international university that strengthens your confidence and your ability to be a powerful clear thinking contributor to better solutions will ensure the value of your degree during your lifetime. Your rich educational experiences with international faculty and students will reinforce the long term value of your university degree. 
 

Prestige Private University Education at Lowest Cost 

Marco Polo University's pledge to you is good news. Because we simply do not have any of the immense budgetary baggage, indebtedness, tenure and retirement commitments and because we care about helping each Marco Polo student ensure his or her own success, we reduce the cost of our online degrees by approximately 90%, compared to competing conventional universities.

Distinguished Faculty 

Marco Polo University is committed to bring its students the highest caliber faculty available, and that doesn't mean just anybody with a degree. Marco Polo University makes its best efforts to bring exciting professors to the university who have achieved distinction through outstanding records in publishing, commerce, academia, government, or the professions. One common requirement is each must demonstrate a well developed critical and creative thinking ability and have genuine energetic commitment to the Marco Polo University e-learning model.

"....hence, most propoganda is not
designed to fool the critical thinker
but only to give moral cowerdice
and excuse not to think at all."
Michael Riverodown

The Oxbridge Tutorial Learning Model Adaptation 

For almost a thousand years now Oxford and Cambridge Universities have been held in the highest esteem around the world for their classic approach to education and the student results of that education. We reject the dismal failed results of the so-called 'accredited education model' and have adopted the Oxbridge tutorial learning methods which we have adapted to our exclusively online model so that the Marco Polo University e-Learning approach includes the best of the best:

• One-on-One Professor time—each student is afforded the maximum amount of time possible in direct personal/intellectual interaction with their professor teams.
  

• Auto Didactic Learning—Marco Polo University will instill in you the most valuable academic lesson of all, i.e., learning how to teach yourself and feeling the deep down confidence that results. Take a quick look at just some of the accomplishments of self taught individuals–-it will surprise you!!!
  
• Personal Writing/Tutoring Coach—Whether English is your second language or not, you will have an editor/coach available to improve your written presentation and written language use skills.
  
• Critical & Creative Thinking Development—You will absorb all of the degree relevant information that is important naturally as you develop and strengthen the much higher and more important (and impressive to your employer) skills of critical and creative thinking through the internationally rich MPIU learning experience.

Examinations at MPIU  

There are none!
No Cramming! No staying up all night!
No memorizing.  

Remember Plutarch? “The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.” We will, however, be watching to see that you demonstrate increasing critical and creative thinking ability in this area.....something far more important than a display of factual knowledge, in Marco Polo University's view.

Transfer Credit & Degree Acceleration Possibilities 

Yes, Marco polo University has policies and procedures for each degree level that allow you to transfer college credits from other institutions and to register adult prior learning with proper documentation so you can complete your self paced online education as soon as you wish. Additionally, at Marco Polo University, you categorically will not spend 95% in wasted time while you rack up an insurmountable amount of student loan debt to pay for that wasted time.