The various factors of online degrees

Posted by in Uncategorized Oct 28th, 2005

From Officer.com, the Career Corner with the Good, Bad and Ugly of online degrees:

Whether in New Mexico, North Carolina, or Florida, you can hear the same concern aired by veteran police officers and deputy sheriffs nationwide: they need college education to compete for promotions, but their rotating schedules slow down their eagerness to get back into a traditional college environment. Heavily marketed online college degrees seem to be the answer to many, but it is not a path to be taken without some knowledge of the online education industry.

Care needs to be taken to avoid throwing money at a degree that may be viewed as the product of a diploma mill. Online colleges that promise "credit for life's experience" with little academic work or rigor are probably too good to be true and may backfire on you later.

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