Will employers view an online masters degree the same as one taken in a classroom?
Posted by admin | Under Masters Degree Online Saturday Nov 28, 2009I am thinking about getting my masters degree and want to make sure that I don’t end up wasting my time and money. I don’t live close to a college and would prefer to take classes online due to my current schedule. Does anyone know how I can make sure that the program comes from an accredited and well ranked college? (a website) I already have a BS in Criminal Justice and plan to get my masters in that field. Any advice would be appreciated.
If you get your degree online from someplace like UMass or Florida State or the like then it will be perfectly acceptable to almost all employers and preferable to a degree in the classroom from some schools.
In fact, the diploma doesn’t say "online" at all and the only way the employer would know is if you tell them or if you attend one of those schools that everyone knows is online.
Reality is that almost every college in the US is now teaching online and very many offer their degrees wholly online. Some people who are stuck in 1982 haven’t figured that out yet and will tell you "online = bad" but you can look around yourself – Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford (among many others) are teaching online so they must think it viable.
To verify "well ranked" – check the US News and World Reports rankings – the best online programs are at the best traditional colleges.
To verify accreditation – take a minute to learn what regional accreditation is. It’s what you want. http://distancelearn.about.com/od/accreditationinfo/a/regional.htm
Check your choices against the accreditors web site list. Be careful not to fall for "we’re accredited" claims if schools that accredited themselves.
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If the Collage is accredited you can. You can find this out by calling a 4 year collage , in your area,ask, if the credits are transferable. It they are that means it is accredited. The University of Phoenix is one that is Fully- accredited.
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Yes, if the school is accredited.
Frankly, it should not make a difference whether you got your degree from an online program or from a university, you are essentially learning the same thing.
in fact, it might be advisable to study online, you are able to work at your own pace which means that by the end of the course you have learned something thoroughly versus at a university level where you are rushed through learning everything and scarcely remember things the next day.
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If you get your degree online from someplace like UMass or Florida State or the like then it will be perfectly acceptable to almost all employers and preferable to a degree in the classroom from some schools.
In fact, the diploma doesn’t say "online" at all and the only way the employer would know is if you tell them or if you attend one of those schools that everyone knows is online.
Reality is that almost every college in the US is now teaching online and very many offer their degrees wholly online. Some people who are stuck in 1982 haven’t figured that out yet and will tell you "online = bad" but you can look around yourself – Harvard, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford (among many others) are teaching online so they must think it viable.
To verify "well ranked" – check the US News and World Reports rankings – the best online programs are at the best traditional colleges.
To verify accreditation – take a minute to learn what regional accreditation is. It’s what you want. http://distancelearn.about.com/od/accreditationinfo/a/regional.htm
Check your choices against the accreditors web site list. Be careful not to fall for "we’re accredited" claims if schools that accredited themselves.
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