The myth behind Online Education

Finding the perfect university to meet a student’s need is quite a tedious task. A student has to consider various alternatives while considering choosing a school. Since online education is now one of the most opted options by students, it opens some good avenues for the students. Online education has been considered as a suitable and viable alternative as compared to traditional education that involves a brick and mortar school. While choosing options for the degree, one now argues the merits of an online degree. Some people opine that the degree earned in an online environment is not as credit-worthy as one earned in a traditional environment. Misconception prevalent generally is that an online degree is not as credit worthy compared to a degree from a traditional classroom, proofs point to the fact that degree earned is as credit worthy regardless of the environment it is earned, be it online or offline.

A lot of students have to face struggle in the years they are in college as far as tuition is concerned. Faced with these struggles, students have limited options and they end up with either skipping the school, or opting for a community college. With the costs of tuition rising every year, one faces the obvious dilemma of either going for a college degree or opting for an online degree. Online degree programs are getting quite popular now a day’s among working class people too. They can pursue a degree from the comfort of their home and not only that, they can pursue it at their own pace, and of course there are deadlines to be met in an online course too. An article in USNews.com reports,” The number of college students enrolled in at least one online course increased for the ninth straight year, according to the Babson Survey Research Group's annual survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities—including both