Online Degrees Increasingly Gaining Acceptance Among Employers
Skills, experience and reputation of school are more important factors.
Acing the interview and landing a job after college is becoming an increasingly common scenario for those who earn their degrees online.
Such degrees are gaining more acceptance among employers, according to a survey from Eduventures’ Continuing and Professional Education 2005 report.
*Of the 505 employers surveyed, more than 62 percent have a favorable attitude toward online instruction and perceive the quality of online learning to have the same if not greater merit than classroom instruction.
Administrators at universities that offer online learning, such as Webster University, say that their online degree programs are well received by employers.
“We’ve had no issues whatsoever with employers discounting the online knowledge,” says Dr. Benjamin Akande, dean of Webster’s School of Business and Technology. “I think that employers nowadays are also doing their due diligence, and they are recognizing that online education is probably a little bit more challenging than in-class education.”
