Why Online Degrees Are Taking The Cake

Submitted by: David Johns

When I was a young boy our Jr. High School class took a trip to Stanford University. When I told my mother that I wanted to attend this very prestigious and beautiful school, she laughed and said “you’ll never go there.”

For years I suffered the anxiety of thinking that I had wasted my life because I didn’t attend a school that was deemed worthy by a certain ideal in society. But the fact is, almost everyone doesn’t attend a top tier college. In fact, most jobs just require an accredited degree to get in the door – they really want to see productivity and it seems the “good ol’ boy” mentality has long dissolved into a few staggering companies that are hanging on to yesterday. This isn t to imply that a quality education doesn t go a long way, but rather to emphasize the importance of justly guided passion in the pursuit of the right kind of success. Many successful professionals have learned that it s faster and less expensive to avoid unnecessary curriculums and to focus on learning the skill-set or certification to perform the task at hand.

At one point, in a not so far off decade, the thought of online degrees made people cringe. Reputation meant so much, to a static thinking pool of self-diagnosed qualified candidates – there were different fish to catch in those times. But as Bob Dylan wrote, “the times they are a changin.” With the growth of new technologies and advantages in distance learning capabilities, online schools have recruited top teaching talent and bent a knee to amass a student body that is boasting a portion of the career pie. In fact, these schools are offering more and more advantages to a huge market segment that just can’t say no to online education.

These are some of the reasons that Online Education will continue to suck numbers from State Schools: the newer generation doesn’t care about what you think ; gas is expensive; it’s cool to live at home and play video games in your 30’s; when you have a family and job there is just good reason to spend that 1-hour at home instead of 2-3 hours going to a remote class. Have you ever lived in a larger city? Did you come from a smaller, more rural location? Notice the difference in the cost of living? There are also risks in leaving a career in an economy that, let s just say, has seen better days. What if you could get your Master s Degree on the G.I. Bill while serving a tour in Iraq? Wouldn t it be nice to come back to the States with a wide open door to a career path that would allow the freedom to actually discriminate in your job search?

What does the average student score on their SAT s? Well, the average student doesn t take the SAT, but that doesn t mean the times don t change people s lives change, and with that comes new paths. Online degrees open possibilities where old school systems closed doors. Not just for one segment of society but in fact for most of society. Why will online schools take the cake, because it s their cake to take.

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