The various factors of online degrees
Filed in archive Finding the right university by mstandaert on October 28, 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.
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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