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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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. [/b] 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]These types of schools just can't be compared with most of the online programs offered by traditional 'brick and mortar' schools.[/quote]

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