Opinions Please!

[AGS]

I think no matter what they are going to discriminate unless of course the majority of the admissions also have degrees from online, which is very unlikely.

I work at a state university as a research assistant and many of my colleagues also feel that you cannot get the proper education from online/distance learning. Now as Snazzlefrag was saying, there are obviously more specialized results, I was just giving you a general idea. But for some degrees it would not matter where you got it from, the degree that comes to mind here is liberal arts. To me this degree, just says I have a degree, etc. It is not specialized, but if you get a more specialized degree, you're competing with everyone else’s degree program.

For graduate school, there are limited places, even if you're going to a school that is not very good. Again, depending what degree you're going for you are probably competing with 70% of the students who come from accredited programs. I am not talking about regionally accredited, everyone and their mother is regionally accredited. I am talking about the actual program accreditation. This is what the admissions and even employers look at.

Even if you stay the course of your online learning for whatever reason, it is still better to have a degree from online then to not have a degree at all. You just have to weigh the cost and benefits of obtaining one online vs. traditionally. Which I am sure you have

Generally speaking, any online/distance learning degree is not worth as much as any traditional degree. The only counter example to this would be if the board of directors for admissions all came from that same online college.

It is a simple principle, if you come from a tier two school like WPI, RIT, etc then your degree is worth more then a degree from a state school and if you come from a world class school like Stanford, Upenn and Yale then your degree is obviously worth more then someone who graduated from a tier two schools.

Here is what I like to call the food chain of college education. Generally speaking this is practically always true.

Online/Distance Learning -> State schools -> Tier Two schools -> World Class Schools

Hope this helps!!

okay lets say you dropped out of yale when you were young ......and years later with alot of accumulations of bills and etc .... getting back to the ivy league school would be unreasonable.....

so you take a few cleps, dantes, and credit from yale .....

now when schools look at what school you obtained your credit and the gpa average .....


they will have a different perspective on your degree from excelsior....