Will graduate schools in the United States and abroad accept an online college degree

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People who do online degrees still have to put in good amount of work and create numerous assignments or complete assessments, there are more requirements than what many think... Some associate online with an easier to complete degree, essentially, it's the same as the butt-in-seat option, and the medium they use is mostly online for blended/hybrid classes or entirely online.  It doesn't really mean easier, it's the energy, time, etc, it's all required to complete the class, it may be sorted differently...

I will say UMPI was in general MUCH easier than my previous B&M BS degree. (even the gen eds were harder at my old school) and Sophia classes were nearly a joke. I got a 4.0 without much effort but barely scraped by with a 3.4 in my previous degree. Nearly everyone on Discord or here is getting honors, whereas honors were pretty rare when I was in undergrad. There is definitely grade inflation.

These schools (UMPI, Excelsior, TESU) certainly qualify people to apply to Ivys but there are also negatives. Its hard foster connections to get a good LOR, next to 0 opportunities to do research and they are just not well known schools. Are there people out there who did fast CBE online schools who got into Ivys? Probably, but the chances are lower than John Doe who went to more well known schools with opportunities for solid networking/research etc.

CBE accelerated degrees are great for checking the box for busy professionals who need that degree tick but not necessarily for getting into top tier grad programs that have single digit acceptance rates.