Looking bad to graduate fast? Very slow?

[Ideas]

I would not show both start and complete dates when it's possible to avoid. However, sometimes an application seems to require both for education. I am curious if employers really care. I am also curious about what people in general think.

For example, if someone has a Bachelor's and they finished in the same year. Started in (early) 2018 and finished in (late) 2018. Do you think employers immediately start to wonder if the degree might be NA or if something else fishy is going on? Then look at the school name and maybe look it up? So then they know it's RA, but wouldn't they be wanting to ask the candidate how they finished so fast? I'm not really worried about it, personally, but I'm curious.

However, personally I wonder about when it's very slow. I feel like technically, I began my degree a long time ago. About 3 of my oldest college credits are used to complete the degree requirements. Technically I think I'd have to show that those degrees (AS and BS) took me way over a decade. But these days, this is common enough, right? Don't worry about it?

I feel like what's odd is I will have a combination of both. The first degrees looking very slow, and then the next ones looking incredibly fast. Not just that it could say 2018-2018 but that it would be multiple degrees all in 2018-2019.


Regarding people in general, I feel that some people I know will assume my degrees were fishy if they know I got multiple degrees in a year, or otherwise went very fast. Assuming that because it was online it must have been easy, that I must have not done that well on pass/fail, etc. I'm thinking I would have to explain how they are self-paced courses and I worked a lot. I don't mind a lot since there's not much I can do, I figure, but I am curious if anyone has interesting thoughts on how to explain to strangers, friends, etc? (I am thinking about this in general because I read something about people assuming online courses are easy to pass, poorly taught, etc.)