Title: The Truth About Online Degrees: Five Common Myths Busted
Headings: The Truth About Online Degrees: 5 Common Myths Busted
The Truth About Online Degrees: 5 Common Myths Busted
Online Degree Myth #1: You’re in it alone.
Online Degree Myth #2: Your degree won’t be taken seriously by prospective employers.
Online Degree Myth #3: You’re guaranteed to have professor problems.
Online Degree Myth #4: Classes are too easy. You won’t learn or be challenged.
Online Degree Myth #5: Online degrees are not accredited, which means you’re not earning a “real” degree.

Content: Hybrid classes are also quite popular – take some classes online and others face-to-face. See what you like by getting a feel for both formats. Online Degree Myth #2: Your degree won’t be taken seriously by prospective employers. A commonly overlooked fact is that grads of online degree programs earn the exact same degree as face-to-face students. Unless you volunteered this information during an interview, the prospective employer would rarely know the difference. What employers are more often looking for when weighing your qualifications is the reputation of the institution. Employers may be suspicious of a degree from one of those large, for-profit diploma mills (and sometimes rightly so), but most are not at odds with online degrees in general. To ensure that prospective employers will take your degree seriously, explore your school’s relationship with the local business community. A recent survey of members of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) indicated that 79% of those surveyed had, within the previous 12 months, hired a candidate with an online degree.