I think it depends on the job. If you are not a professional then go get an easy on-line Master’s Degree. If you are looking for a good career then go to a traditional school and earn the Master’s degree “on campus”. I know a lot of employers can tell if you on-lined it or not. I went to George Washington for my MBA and although expensive it was very much worth it. I could not imagine doing it online. But I guess bottom line it depends on how successful you want to be.
Your inside the box, outdated and pro bureaucratic pro big govenment status quo thinking NEVER ceases to amaze me. The corruption of Big Education, like so much, has just WHOOSHED right by you......simply astounding.
And when was the last time you were on a college campus? You think it resembles in any way, shape or form what you experienced. It doesn’t.
Strangely enough our best programmers did not go to school at all or graduated in a completely different field. I don't know how they find them.
Kinda funny. An engineer friend of mine said that the only thing his engineering degree got him was in the door of the job. Everything he does now has nothing to do with what he learned in college.
I think he exagerates, but the point is valid. Some hard skills are necessary and must be taught. And they are also the easiest ones taught online.
As Bob Dylan sang, “Oh the times they are a changin’!”
A massive amount of material is available on-line. The only ingredient missing are certifiable and guaranteed qualifying exams for specific areas of knowledge. The certifiable and guaranteed exams could start with individual first grade subjects and proceed through to individual graduate school courses work.
Even a great deal of the material taught in professional schools, such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacology,...etc. is **very** routine stuff and could easily be placed on-line.
By the way....If the state K-12 schools and universities are **taxpayer** supported why hide this information from the taxpayer? All courses from 1st through graduate school should be placed on-line ( even professional courses found in professional schools such as medical and law ) and copy of the textbooks placed in all city and county libraries.
Part of the issue is that online studying is just easier: you don’t have to commute, you don’t have to juggle your schedule with your regular job, you don’t have to work with and get along with other people in your class. If you want to watch the lecture at 2 in the afternoon or 6 in the morning or on Sunday night, you can do that. And with a $7000 degree, you don’t have to work even harder either before, during, or after you get your MBA to come up with the six-figure tuition at traditional schools. In other words, it’s just easier. Employers know this. If you show up with your $7000 degree, they know you were probably not as determined and probably didn’t have to make the sacrifices and accommodations and get as exhausted and still perform under pressure like the guy who has his MBA from Wharton or Georgetown or the University of Chicago. They will have an idea that the job candidate with the U of C degree clutched in his hot little hand will be able to perform when under physical, mental, and personal pressure.
No offense to anyone, but I did graduate work in a regular university and then took online courses recently, and despite the rigor of the material treated in the online courses, it was simply a whole lot easier since the need to be on campus was not present.
I never would have guessed. Never.
You are sadly mistaken if you are equating *any* degree from Georgia Tech with easy.
GT will hold a high standard and bounce out the people that do not meet a tough standard of achievement. It is just what GT does.