What Schools Offer the Best Online Degrees?
There is of course no easy answer to which school offers the best online degree, there are lots of factors that have to be considered. There are however a few things that you are going to want to look at when you are choosing a school so that you can get the best possible degree for your needs.
The first thing that you are going to want to look at when you are choosing a school for an online degree is to make sure that the school is regionally accredited. This is the guarantee that the school that you are attending is a legitimate school and that the courses that you take at that school will be recognized by other schools. There are thousands of schools that are regionally accredited so there is really no reason to even consider one that isn’t.
Unfortunately regional accreditation is not a guarantee that the school is particularly good, just that it meets a minimum standard. Therefore the next thing that you have to look at is the degree requirements that the school has. This is where things can get tricky as one of the biggest problems that online education is facing is that a lot of the for profit schools are setting requirements that are quite low for the simple reason that a harder degree program would reduce the number of customers they get.
When you are choosing a degree program you have to make sure that you not choose one that is easy, ideally you should be choosing a school that has degree programs that have the same course requirements that they have for their on campus students. This of course means that you would be limiting your options to schools that have on campus programs. While there are a lot of good online only schools you will probably find that regular college that offers online degrees is the better option.
There are other factors that you are going to want to consider as well like cost and reputation which is why I generally recommend to people that their best option for an online degree is their local state university, providing of course that they offer online programs. If not there are lots of other state universities that do which are also good options if your local school doesn’t offer the degree program that will meet your needs.
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