Bachelors degree online?

Question

I currently have an associates degree in drafting and design through itt tech with 3 years experience in residential design and 4 years as a carpenter. I plan on working on a bachelors in the near future through distance learning. I can re-attend itt tech for a bachelors in construction management for only 2 years or attend an accredited university for a bachelors in business degree but start from scratch. Which would be more helpful in the working world? I want to work as a construction project manager or estimator or possibly start a small business as a residential designer.

Answer 1

If you do get your bachelor's degree online then get one from a brick and mortar college that also offers them online in addition to their campus programs.

For example: I really like Savannah College of Art and Design, they're a campus university but they also have degrees you can earn through their online classes. You need to pick something like that for your major.

You don't want to go to some cheesy "college" like university of phoenix because that college has had many controversies in the past. I live in Arizona and I  hear a lot of bad things about them. You want to also avoid anything that is strictly online.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

People with a degree from a For Profit online univesity make about $20K less per year than people with a bachelor's degree from a real university.

Answer 4

I understand that some employers are preferring graduates of ACCE accredited construction management programs.

http://www.acce-hq.org/baccalaureateprog...

I don't know which of the listed programs offers this degree online, if any. But some big online players are on that list, including U Florida, U Maryland and U Nebraska, so it'd be worth your time to look into each one to see if it's offered via distance. If not, then you can look into the excellent distance learning business majors offered by schools like UMass Amherst, U Maryland, Worcester Polytechnic, Northeastern, and Penn State.

A lot of employers don't respect bachelors degrees given by ITT tech. But I'm not familiar with how they are viewed in your particular field, so you'd want to research that. Ask people in your field. Ask people who hire the jobs you think you want.

Answer 5

I went to real universities myself (3 of them) and later worked for 7 years in a 2-year college.  I have no respect for online degrees and still have some doubts even about online courses.  

The only way I could respect someone with an online degree is if the degree was a higher degree, such as a masters or a doctorate.  I could respect that if the student physically went to a real university before and got a degree after being in the classroom.  I could believe that the student did learn how to study and was responsible enough to be able to pursue an online higher degree.  

An online degree requires more personal responsibility from the student (the student who actually cares about an education, not just a title), but unfortunately it allows much more opportunity for mediocrity, quick answers, and cheating.  Most online courses are more like exams, that test a student´s knowledge but don´t really do enough to help that knowledge become deeper and more critical.

Answer 6

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