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Online universities good idea, or total waste of time and money?

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26 minutes ago, heel31ok said:

Uni  of Phx

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To become eligible for employment as a NCAA head coach, he completed the final nine hours of his business administration degree online via St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia.[1] On May 6, 2006, Lowe was named the new head basketball coach of North Carolina State University, replacing Herb Sendek. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lowe

 

yes I know it is Wikipedia, but here is another source:

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Lowe does not have a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year institution, as N.C. State requires of its next coach. Lowe said he is completing his studies this month at St. Paul's College in Virginia.
Read more at http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/157736/#u0vEWdifUtEZmhQa.99

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/157736/

 

Not University of Pheonix.

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On 3/10/2016 at 3:46 PM, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

doing an online degree program through a real university is fine

university of phoenix and other for-profit online colleges are 100% scams

Came here to say this. As long as you're doing it through an accredited university employers won't even know you "did it online" if that even matters to them.

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9 hours ago, SOJA said:

you say finish- where did you start - will the new school accept all, most, or even some of those credits?

Why do you want a degree? Do you absolutely need it to get into the field you want to? 

Taking classes online is useful but it isn't always what's best for you- depending on the field, research is critical and you aren't going to be chatting with any professors about their research after an online class session ends. 

Be careful, don't get a degree jut to get one. First find out what you really, really want to do- then go do whatever it takes to do that. 

1, CPCC and yes most state school in NC accept it

2, Get into a better job, improve my life.  probably.

3, understandable, but I have bills and going to school full time while sounds great, isn't a luxury available to me atm.

4, I've never know what I wanted to do in my life. never, not once... It's part of the reason I'm working the job I am now, because I thought: "well it pays well, what the hell might as well give it a shot",  it has definitely has been a double edge sword with this job, got my finances in line, heading in a good direction on most counts, it just sucks terribly.  I literally may have the worse job of anyone here(half of this has to deal with the agency I work for is utter poo).  I'm right now looking at whatever it takes to get into a different line of work.  Looking to get into the IT field, I've always been handy with computers, and trouble shooting problems so a lot of friends have suggested I look into it, so I'm looking into that now.

 

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I completed a number of my classes online. History, English, and one physics class I took before jumping into calculus based physics. It was like a full time job. I had Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off. I'd get out of my campus classes at noon. Home by one and sometimes I wouldn't leave my desk until nine pm.

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