Jullie Harvard asked:


Are you in the right career which you are dreaming for? Most people find their current career is not what they actually want to be, but because of having family and other commitments, they can’t afford to quit their current job just to earn another degree to qualify them for a career switch. If you are in this situation, online degree is your best option to move your career back to the right path.

Online education has gained it popularity among working adults to earn a career related degree either for their career advancement, job promotion or correction of career path. With such a high market demands, more and more online degree programs are introduced to meet the market needs and covered almost all career fields. Today, you can earn any type of degree online which offered by various prestigious online universities. In addition to that, many of traditional campus-based universities and colleges have made their degree programs available online to provide more choices for their students to choose between offline and online degree programs, some of these programs even have mixes with offline and online classes.

The best part about getting your degree online are flexibility and convenient of learning environment because you can attend the online classes from anywhere and at your own pace. The most important thing is you do not need to quit your current job; that means you can maintain your current income stream while preparing yourself for a career switch.

If you want to earn a degree online for the purpose of career switch, first of all you must find out what are the education requirements for your favorite career. You can easily get to know on the education requirement from the job vacancy hiring ads or online jobs posting sites. Once, you know the degree required to qualifying you for your favorite job, you can start to search for the related online degree programs offered by accredited online universities. As most universities posted their degree programs online, you could easily search for this information from internet. Don’t be surprised if you found so many online universities offering the same degree programs, but beware for any potential scams from diploma mills.

In order to ensure you are earning a degree from a legitimate and good reputation online university, you should make sure you only enroll into the online degree program offered by online university at least with criteria below:

* Accredited by an Accreditation Agency that is recognized by Department of Education.

* Check for any complaint filed in Better Business Bureau (BBB.org). The university should not have bad records.

* The degrees are highly accepted in the job market of your career field. You can find some hints from survey reports from Sloan-C (sloan-c.org).

Once you have enrolled into any of online degree program, the next thing your need to do is arrange your study schedule so that it won’t crash with your working time. As most of online degree programs allow you to plan your learning schedule and study at your own pace, you can easily plan your study time that best fit into your own schedule. Proper time management between work, family and your study will enable to your complete your degree program, maintaining your current lifestyle and your income stream.

With the related degree for your career of choice, you are equipped yourself with the required education background to start your career switching process. Online education has been the best option for many working adults like you who are planning to make a career switch to earn a career related degree to meet their career goal.



Sam Wilkerson

Jullie Harvard asked:


Nowadays, it is common to earn a degree through online education program. You can choose any major that fit your needs from degree programs offered by various online schools. Many of us are getting a degree for the purpose of career advancement or making a career switch. So, the acceptance of the degree in the job market is important. The common concern for most students who are planning to pursue their degree online is whether the degree earned is equally competitive with the standard degree which earned through campus-based university.

In deciding whether to go for online study or follow the campus-based degree program, the acceptance of the degree in the job market may become your key consideration factor. You may choose to pursue the traditional campus-based degree program just because you worry that online degree may not widely accepted in the job market, so it may affects your career opportunities after your graduation.

In the early introduction of online education, your concern about how the employers look at online degree may be valid. But the growth of online education in past 20 years shown that online study has become popular as more and more students are getting their degree through this channel. Statistics show that generally a degree that earned from campus-based or through online has no differences, but employers do have concerns about fake degrees issued by diploma mills.

The market demands have pushed the online education to growth rapidly, and it has becomes one of the most profitable industry which attractive diploma mills to compete for the market share. The diploma mills are unauthorized universities that offer online degrees that are not accredited by accrediting agency which approved by Department of Education. Those degrees that issued by diploma mills are illegal and they are not accepted in the job market. Employers nowadays are well aware about those fake degrees and they have tried their best efforts to reject them. So, if you are earn your degree from a diploma mill, the consequences may not just losing your job opportunity, but you may be dragged into a legal case due to holding an illegal degree.

Most employers have a list of accredited online universities and their degree programs, or they can easily access the list from the accreditation database from Department of Education’s website. Any degree from an unknown or suspicious online university will easily draw attention by the employers. If you are earning a degree from a reputable and properly accredited university, your online degree should have no different than the degree earned through campus-based university.

For students who are planning to earn their degree online, they should not worry about how the employers look at their degree because online degrees are wide accepted by most of employers. What you need to focus on is finding an online degree program that is properly accredited by an accrediting agency approved Department of Education. You can access to the accreditation information from CHEA.org website.

Summary

As long as you are getting a degree from an accredited online university, which the accreditation is done by an accrediting agency recognized by Department of Education, you shouldn’t face any problem when you use the degree to start your career after graduation.



LeRoi Wilkers