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Do Employers Consider Online Degrees Credible?

Posted by Berrack Obime Monday, December 3, 2012 0 comments
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.

What Schools Offer the Best Online Degrees?

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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.

Do State Universities Offer Online Degrees?

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One of the most important things that you have to make sure of when you are getting an online degree is that you get one from a school that is well respected and which people are familiar with. In most cases you will find that the best option for this is getting one from your local state university.
The vast majority of state universities do offer online degrees, to be sure there are still some that don’t but the number that do now far outweighs the number that don’t. In general this is the best option for most students considering online degrees for a few different reasons. The main one is that the degrees are going to be respected by local employers, in fact you really don’t even have to put the fact that it was earned online on your resume. While a state university may not have the same reputation as say Harvard it is certainly better than getting a degree from a for profit, online school that has a bad reputation.
The other reason that your local state university is a good option is that it is almost always the cheapest degree that you are going to get. If you are doing an online degree there is little reason to pay more than is necessary since the higher priced schools are not going to provide you with any benefit that you wouldn’t get from the state university.
The biggest issue that you are likely to find with taking online courses from your local state university is that will likely have a fairly limited number of degree programs available. Usually they just have the more popular programs like business available. This can be a bit of a problem but there is a way around it by getting a degree from a school in another state.
One of the biggest secrets about taking online courses at state universities that few people realize is that in most cases with online courses  you can get in state tuition rates regardless of whether you live in state or not. This means that you can take courses at state universities in other states for about the same cost as taking them in your own state. This will greatly increase the number of degree programs that you can choose from. Each individual school will have a limited offering but when you look at all of the state universities in the country you can find most degree programs available.

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