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[quote=Anonymous]As an employer, I tried to hire people who have degrees from real places (UMUC, UMBC, Drexel, etc).  Whether they were online or not, I do not care.  I trust these institutions to give out degrees to those that earn them.

My problem with places like Strayer, Phoenix, and the like is that people who earn their degrees do not seem to have the skills that go with these degrees.  I do not think this is because the classes are online.  I think it is because they give out credit for life experience and $$$- doing this may make it easier to get a degree, but it also means you need less training/skills learned to get that degree...which is why their graduates do not have what it takes to do the work.  I also think these places are designed to graduate as many people as possible.  I have seen Strayer do things that no proper college would do (like retroactively awarding a degree to someone who did not have enough credits, because they wrote a check and credits were adding to their transcript based on life experience). [/quote]

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