Anybody get a College Degree online?

[Doobage]

Those of you who have completed an online degree—in your opinion to employers look at your degree any differently than a traditional degree? I'd like to get my Masters and was planning to apply to school via the traditional route, but I recently began a good job and it would be a waste to give it up so soon. So it's either wait a few years or check out an online course.

[bande1102]

None of the schools I attended said "online" or "distance" or anything like that on my degree. They just named the university. So the answer to your question is a definite no.

[Gatornation]

Originally Posted by Doobage

Those of you who have completed an online degree—in your opinion to employers look at your degree any differently than a traditional degree? I'd like to get my Masters and was planning to apply to school via the traditional route, but I recently began a good job and it would be a waste to give it up so soon. So it's either wait a few years or check out an online course.

That depends if you are going to attend a for-profit or a brick and mortar school.

[3DogNight]

Originally Posted by Doobage

Those of you who have completed an online degree—in your opinion to employers look at your degree any differently than a traditional degree? I'd like to get my Masters and was planning to apply to school via the traditional route, but I recently began a good job and it would be a waste to give it up so soon. So it's either wait a few years or check out an online course.

Franky I feel that the difference in opinion is in the age group of the employer doing the hiring. I had some dried up old raisins doing the hiring at my last job (Fortune 500 company), and they're big into the 'pay your dues, take the long road cuz that's the *ONLY* road' hokum. That is the sour grapes perspective, and I don't believe I've seen much difference in that attitude in my current atmosphere (municipal gooberment). Different part of the country, different people, different backgrounds...the one similar factor? AGE. That defines the mentality toward online degrees. When the dried old raisin retired and a younger woman came on board as HR manager and her perspective was much more open-minded. Didn't dismiss online learning, degrees, or anything else. After all...this employer was a distance education leader for their sales teams -- all their 'how to sell' classes were via teleconference, yet the raisin in HR looked down his nose at distance ed on a grander scale.