If an employer questions your degree during an interview?

[cookderosa]

Just wanted to bring up a topic and see what everybody has to say on this. The big "3"..Let's say an employer asks you how did you earn your degree? Do you answer , "I earned it by distance learning". Or would one say, "I earned it 100% online". Last, one can say.."It was an assessment college, I transfered majority of my credits in and took cleps etc."

Also let's say an employer never heard of the big 3. Wouldn't an employer think that someone who graduated at COSC or TESC graduated at more of a traditional route because of the "state colleges" in the names?

Let's take a show of hands of anyone in an interview who has ever been asked how their credit was earned. That'd be zero.

So, for the sake of argument, let's say someone is asked such an irrelevant question. My question would be "How? What do you mean?" (because the person asking me is clearly an idiot, so I just want to be sure I understand the question)

So, for the sake of argument, let's say the person explains "I'd like to know exactly how you earned each and every credit for your undergrad degree" to which I'd go ahead and start:
My Contemporary Sociology course met on Saturdays
My Abnormal Psychology course met on Thursdays
My Research in the Social Sciences was an online course
My Introduction to Sociology was a joke so I tested out of it...oh, and I also managed to test out of the rest of my general education courses saving approximately $13,000.

Since my interviewer is an idiot, he likely isn't going to understand what an assessment college is (which, btw, is a made up thing- it isn't a "real type" of college) so, that's a "no" I'm not going there.

Q: what he thinks of the name? Seriously? Is that a question?

Also, "state college" shouldn't be in quotes because <gasp> they actually ARE state colleges.


P.S. your nervousness and insecurity about your degree will come through, I'd bet my last dollar on it.