I am considering attending Capella University. What can people tell me about it?

Question

I am looking at attending Capella University and getting my Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management. What can people tell me about them?

Answer 1

Dale. Capella is one of the best and most reputable online schools around. Not only are they known for their rigerous and challenging course work but they are highly regarded by Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as Home Depot, WalMart, Target, Johnson and Johnson, Boeing, Microsoft, Northwest Memorial Hospital, US Bank, and Kieser Permenta but they have additional professional or specialized accreditations that go way beyond their regional accreditation.

Capella is the ONLY online school that is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. Other Minnesota colleges/universities possessing this acceditation are Winona State, St. Cloud State, and Minnesota State U. in Mankato and Moorhead. This accreditation is extremely difficult to get.

Also, Capella University was recently recognized at a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. What does this mean? Simply that Capella University offers an education that meets or surpasses the standards that the Federal Government has set forth in educating IT professionals in securing top secret data. Another extremely difficult recognition to achieve.

And finally and more to your area of study, Capella University is the only online school that has been recognized by the Society for Human Resource Managers as being allowed to map its educational structure in the HR studies to the SHRM model.

You are making a wise choice.

Answer 2

1. you will probably pay as much or more as other private universities.

2. you will probably get less skilled and less well qualified instruction.

3. you will probably get substanitally less respect and recognition than if you had completed a degree at a bricks and mortar non-profit school.

4. you will probably get an answer from a Capella recruiter who will be happy to feed you a line about Capella that makes them sound great.

5. you can probably get a decent idea of where they stand by checking their ranking on the US News ranking system.

Good luck, whatever you decide.

Answer 3

It depends where you are coming from, but an "in-person" degree is almost always preferable to an online degree, but I think for an online degree in HR Mgmt, Capella pretty good.

You might want to check out some local schools to see if they have part-time programs where you can work part time and go to school.

If this is your first run at education and you're willing to devote 4 years solely to this, I would advise you to take a look at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Cornell's placements are fantastic in HR.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I'm sorry, but my experience with people studying there has been terrible. Their whole focus seems to be fast and convenient, not good. Unless there is some reason why you need to go to a for-profit online school, you would do better to do an online degree with a traditional university. Although this may change in the future, right now these degrees are often not accepted by employers as equivalent to those from traditional universities. For the money, you could do far better.

Answer 5

I had a college professor that was attending Capella to get her doctorate while she was teaching. She seemed to like them.