Do Employers Consider Online Degrees Credible?
Whether or not employers consider online degrees to be considerable will depend in large part on where you got your degree. There are some very good online degrees and some that are of questionable value. Therefore you are going to want to make sure that you get your degree from a school that is of good quality and which has a good reputation.
There does seem to be a bit of an issue with employers looking down on online degrees, or at least not considering them to be as good as regular degrees. This is less common than it used to be but it does still exist. That being said there are ways to get around this problem so there is no reason to give up on distance learning if you are in need of a degree and don’t want to return to school full time.
The best way to make sure that potential employers look at your online degree in a positive way is to not tell them that you have an online degree. If you take your degree at a school that offers both online and regular programs the degrees themselves generally don’t say anything about being earned online. The standards to get the degree are the same either way so there is no reason to tell potential employers that you got the degree online or if you do tell them you can point out that the degrees is the same as the on campus degree.
The best option in most case for people who are looking to get online degrees is their local state university. This is because the school will be well known in the local area and it offers on campus degrees, in fact the vast majority of graduates will have earned their degree on campus. If your local state university does not offer the program that you want online then a state university from another state is probably your next best option.
If you are going to go with a school that offers only online degrees the best bet is to go with a school that is not widely known. If you do this employers will generally just assume that you got your degree on campus. The schools that seem to cause a credibility with employers are the online only schools that advertise heavily like the University of Phoenix, they are well known and have a bad reputation which makes degrees from them of limited value.
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