Are online colleges legit?
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Yes, a competent HR department won't have any problem with an online degree... if they are regionally accredited. Some are not and are academically meaningless such as Almeda, Kennedy Western, Warren National.
To gain regional accreditation, these programs have to have "highly qualified" faculty, primarilly with doctorates, which they do. There degrees will qualify you for employment for any organization with a competent HR department.
You can verify the accreditation here: http://www.chea.org/search/
yes
A few are, but a lot aren't. You must look for those that are accredited. A good guideline is to find those affiliated with large regular universities. And some of the larger universities offer degrees online - which is a better bet as far as your future employers are concerned. Good luck to you!
Yes and no. They might be accreditted, but most of them (if you read the fine print) you can't transfer the credits to other colleges, so if you want to continue your education at a local school, you have to start all over again.
One of my friends was an LPN and went with the outline college. She is an RN now. So they are ligit
A little lesson on accreditation. Check the school's accreditation statement on its website. Then check the accreditation agency's website. Then check whether their accreditation agency is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation http://www.chea.org and/or the United States Department of Education http://www.ed.gov . If all of that checks out, the school's legitimately accredited. The next thing you need to know is that there is regional accreditation and there is national accreditation. Regional accreditors have been around longer and, conversely, the national accreditors are newer and have traditionally focused on short-term vocational programs (only recently have the national accreditors started accrediting actual full-fledged degree programs). Consequently, the regional accreditors (Middle States Association, New England Association, North Central Association, Northwest Association, Southern Association, and Western Association) are generally viewed as more prestigious than the national accreditors (Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, and Distance Education and Training Council) and that is where the transfer problems come in. That is not to say that one can never transfer nationally accredited credits to a regionally accredited school or use a nationally accredited degree to get into a regionally accredited graduate school, just that if you do go this route you should check with the regionally accredited school you would eventually like to go to to see if they take nationally accredited credits/degrees for transfer and/or grad school admissions.
Some are. Many colleges are now doing internet long distance programs that offer the same sheep skin as if you went to the brick and mortar school.
You have to check around to see what schools offer what programs.
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