Benefits

1. Preparation:  Students who plan to study overseas need to prepare themselves to do so.  By taking online courses, students can experience the American classroom long before landing in the United States. 

2. Credits:  Southlands is a Western Association of  Schools and Colleges (WASC) and Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) accredited institution.  Southlands core courses are California State Approved and can be applied to achieving an American High School diploma and/or applying to university. 
   
   
3. Marketability: Applying to University in America can be extremely competitive.  By having American high school course credits, students increase their marketability when applying to colleges and universities.
   
   
4. Engaging:  Southlands stands apart in online education with it’s engaging classroom environment.  Video-based lesson delivery, interactive teaching methodology, correspondence with international peers, and constant teacher-student communication are just a few things that set us apart.
   
   
5. Customized:  Coursework is customized for the international student.  It is designed to help their needs by adopting a teaching style that is language focussed across the curriculum.
   
   
6. Effective:  Southlands courses have proven to be effective in preparing students for both continuing education and real life for the past 30 years.
   
   
7. Personalized:  Students receive individualized input, guidance, and support from our course instructors that are available to them through the online classroom.  
   
   
8. Accredited:  Southlands’ accredited coursework can be used towards obtaining a high school diploma. 
   
   
9. Convenient:  Receive American high school credits without having to move abroad. 
   
   
10. Inexpensive:  When compared to the cost of moving abroad to study, Southlands online education is inexpensive.