Poor man living abroad wanting to get a Master's Degree in Eng. lit online?

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Poor man living abroad wanting to get a Master's Degree in Eng. lit online?

My name is Steven Sills. I am an American who teaches English in Bangkok Thailand. I graduated from Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield and went on learning toward my Master's Degree in English. I even did an early creative writing thesis before my coursework was completed; however I withdrew when a book of my poetry was published by Towson State University and I needed to get it revised. My dream, despite my low earnings, is to get a Master's Degree in English or American literature. If you can at all give me some suggestions on how I might accomplish this or how I, a poor man living in a foreign country but one whose book is in Princeton and Yale academic libraries and whose other manuscripts are part of the digital archive at the university of Pennsylvania
(see Steven Sills, writer of poetry and literary novels. Books in the digital archive at the University of Pennsylvania at
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/web...
Libraries posessing An American Papyrus can be found at:
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow... might locate a scholarship. I have studied classical literature all my life and would be very indebted to you to help me locate a program in the United States or abroad and a means to do it
Sincerely
Steven Sills

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

I wouldn't advise getting a Master's online in anything other than business. I know it is elitist, but potential employers/ publishers will see an online degree as a negative. What I would recommend is to find the universities that you are most interested in and do some research. Some will fund you either partially or fully. Some are combined MA & PhD. If you work at a university in any department-- even a writing center-- you can have big tuition breaks. There are also student loans, which may be frightening to think about, but are the cheapest loans you will ever have and the education is worth it. Best of luck!