Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Ensure that it is from an accredited institution.
An online degree should work fine at a regional, but some majors may not be too excited about it.
The reason for this is that hiring decisions at majors are made by older people who all went to a traditional college...they probably harbor the attitude that online education is akin to a diploma mill. It will help if you get your online degree from a large, well-known school that happens to offer distance learning. They might not notice that you did not do a traditional program.
For example: TESC??? What the heck is that? If I were a hiring person (I have been) I would google that to see what it's all about.
But if your degree said Arizona State University, I wouldn't think twice.
Online learning is the direction the world is moving. It's a matter of perspective of what one thinks of online vs. a brick and mortar school. An open minded employer would see that a person who learned online had to balance family, cook dinner, go to work, worry about bills, all while studying the SAME curriculum that brick n' mortar schools have. You're right about the school needing to be accredited.