What is the best online degree program?

Question

I was thinking of going to Phoenix University online. I need to know which online universities are the best and transfer with a better name. Also if I get an associates degree will I be gaurenteed to start in as a junior if I change colleges to get my bachelors? THanks

Answer 1

I'm thinking one of the online programs at Harvard University would be up there as "the best".

UMass has programs wholly online that are considered pretty good by most people. Boston U. Florida State.... The colleges which have the best name in traditional studies also have the best name in online education.

There are so many options out there now that your question is like asking "what car should I buy" without telling us any more information.

Let me emphasize this point - and you need only learn one thing today and this is the thing...

There are different levels of accreditation. Regional accreditation is the highest. Regionally accredited schools usually will only take transfer credit from other regionally accredited schools. BUT they aren't required to transfer any credit at all. Anyone who offers you a guarantee that you can transfer credit (except for the school that is going to accept the credit) lies. It's that simple. There are times when credit from the same school won't transfer across departments - for example if you change majors. There are no guarantees!!! ever!!! This is not my opinion - it is a fact. Colleges are never required to take transfer credit - ever!!!

I don't know why that is so difficult for some people, but you my friend, now know the truth.

Another "truth" -- it is an absolute, provable fact that it doesn't matter whether your degree was online or traditional. It only matters where you got it. They don't say "Bachelor of Arts ONLINE" on them. If you get your degree at University of Florida, nobody will ask if it was traditional or online or both. It's very likely that, these days, it was both (since every college worth 2-cent now has online classes).

People don't disregard UoP because they have online classes, they disregard it because their own commercials say "we're way easy and a short cut" -- I understand they aren't easy but that's what their commercial says.

Want an experiment to prove whether online vs traditional is the decider? Try this using Harvard U and U. Phoenix.

You have an applicant for a job. Everything is equal except that one has a degree from Harvard U and the other from UoP. The Harvard was online, the UoP was traditional in a classroom. Are you hiring the Harvard grad? Yep, so is almost everyone else.

It's about the school - not about the delivery method... and now you know one more "fact" with which to make a decision.

Answer 2

Be very, very careful about taking degrees from on-line institutions. Even if they are accredited the fact of the matter is that such degrees are not in general viewed with the same respect as degrees from "real" universities. (I'd make an exception for Open University in Britain). If you can't put in classroom hours yourself, consider trying to gain admission to a traditional university which has a strong distance education component and take your degree that way.

Answer 3

Chris I don't think any employer would be impress with these so called degree's on-line. Most of these so called Universities are not accredited by any department of education. One so called the "University of Phoenix" is not accredited by some states in the USA. Most of these degree's on line are degree mills. So be careful who you hand out your hard earned cash to.

Answer 4

www.universityofpheonix.com

Very reputable.