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I feel very thankful that I have been able to take classes online. I am a very busy mother of four and I want to have a degree. I feel like I am prepared to go to GMU sometime next year. I hope that future employers will look at me a know I worked very hard to attain something that seemed impossible at one time.

Online classes are the way of the future. The push back against online classes seems to come mainly from older people. [/quote]

As someone in HR, to me it matters why the person took the online version of classes, as well as the reputation of the university/college.  If you have a candidate who completed an degree partially or fully online because they were getting their degree after work hours, or had children at home they couldn't leave alone, or had a temporary health issue they were recovering from, or could only afford the tuition and not the R&B, etc., I would see an online version of a degree from a reputable university/college as a degree that person showed fortitude and hutzpah in obtaining.  They took their challenging circumstances and were able to get a degree despite their limitations.  I would see that as a plus in hiring them as a go-getter who problem-solves and makes the best of a challenging situation.  Again, as long as the degree is from a reputable source.  Such as online degree versions from state colleges, SLACs, Ivies, mid-tier smaller colleges, etc.  That's why it is so great that for the folks described above, mainstream schools are quickly creating online versions of their degrees if they didn't have them already.

If the person did not have an extenuating circumstance they could discuss, and just got the online degree because they wanted to get the degree from their house for convenience, that I would worry about in terms of their initiative and problem-solving at work.  They didn't put forth the effort to get out of their house and go to a physical classroom for their coursework, and took the easier path.  I would not pursue that candidate.
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