Do universities and employers discriminate against people with an online degree?

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The answer will be situational. For the most part, I do not think companies or most colleges care really. The future will be in online or most likely hybrid anyway. With technology, it is getting really silly to drive an hour to sit in a lecture that could be done with a webcam. The generation that doesn't get this are on their way out in reality. In the end, if you go to the online side of a good state or well known college you should be fine. Schools like U of Phoenix or Strayer might be strikes against you but those are notoriously terrible. In the TESU magazine Fall edition there was an alumni update of a TESU grad that was currently in Harvard Law. I believe he first got into Ohio State U law first after TESU then transferred to Harvard but the point being is he went to multiple respected universities with an online only degree. In the end, all this is what you make it. If you feel insecure about your degree than others will as well. After you hit your stride in your career, your degree is almost never a source of conversation or interest. I have worked with Harvard grads who have the same respect and title as someone who went to a no name college in Kansas. Unless you are in high finance, law or upper echelons of government, your school name is larger irrelevant.