Online Degrees Gaining More Acceptance
By Edna Melendez |
The number of students electing to undertake online degree course since the
mid-1990s has risen exponentially. Due to the nature of the all-round benefits
of undertaking online degrees, the make-up of the student roster is as diverse
and alternative as any degree program you could wish to name. But, with more
than two-thirds of the traditional learning institutions now offering some form
of online degrees, either at bachelor or master's level, how are employers'
viewing those who have graduate and post-graduate qualifications attained from
undertaking online degrees?
The answer to this question is actually
rather simple: in order to ensure that prospective employers take their online
degrees seriously, those looking to undertake them do need to research their
chosen field of study, and the institutions offering them, before embarking on
the length (and, in some cases, costly) process of completing online degrees.
Unfortunately, this initial process of researching the institution
offering online degrees needs to be undertaken because, it must be said, some
institutions do offer accredited online degree, whilst others merely provide a
poor substitute for more traditional degree study programs.
In this
regard, empirical studies evidence that three-quarters of potential employers
view online degrees gained from established universities as being more
acceptable than online degrees attained from universities that only cater for
online degrees. Whether or not it is fair for prospective employers to make such
sweeping opinions is rather a moot point - the fact is that prospective
employers are far more likely to know the name of an existing, traditional
learning institute than they are a new learning institute established to only
provide
for online degrees.
Consequently, employers' recognition of
online degrees obtained for the newer learning institutes is on the rise as the
profiles of this learning centers and the online degrees they offer - rises.
Perhaps the strongest evidence
of this fact can be seen in the number of
employers who are now offering their current employees with incentive schemes to
undertake post-graduate online degrees
(such as paying for their tuition
fees and providing time-off for study) in much the same manner as had previously
been provided for more traditional methods of post-graduate
programs.
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