Online Degrees: Learn More Before You Enroll

I personally researched my online options prior to re-starting my college education process. I, like millions of high school graduates, started my college career immediately out of high school, but, due to financial challenges, had to stop the process after 3 years. 30 years later, I was finally in a position to re-start my education; however, online or evening classes were my only option. (I couldn't quit my job to go to school full time) I personally interviewed several HR managers to find out the impact of my school choice.

Consistently, I was advised if two exact candidates were being considered for a position the candidate who attended a traditional college would be considered a better choice than the candidate who attended U of Pheonix. Based upon this, I chose to attend online classes through Washington State University (out of state tuition and all). They are one of the few traditional accredited universities that have a great online program!

My only complaint with my online process with WSU (go Cougars!!) is they use traditional semester terms and they don't offer any adult learning credits; therefore, my completion has been slow. This is not an accelerated program, but it definitely is a traditional education. My degree looks exactly like the student's degrees who lived on campus and went to school full time. I was able to transfer all my prior credits from my other traditional university to reduce the lower level credits necessary, so this was helpful. To speed up the process, I also picked up all of my remaining lower level courses at a local community college that taught using quarters. This helped speed up the process and reduced the cost a little.

MA of IL 3:52PM October 21, 2010