What's the weirdest thing you've heard someone say about college?

[ChilliDawg]

"The federal government won't hire you if you have an online degree unless you have veterans' preference. "

"Ivy League schools will never offer online degrees."

"For-profit colleges don't have regional accreditation."

"For-profit colleges never have specialized (programmatic) accreditation."

"All online degrees are offered by online schools, and all online schools are diploma mills." 

"You'll never get a job with an online degree."

These kinds of statements get me riled up.

I had this argument with a friend of mine the other day, who made the comment "I would rather have no degree, than an online degree".  As you can imagine, he has NO degree.  And, no job.  I find it odd that he picked the very week that I received my TESU diploma, to make such a statement.

I read a great article the other day on the epidemic of small colleges closing their doors for good.  A survey of the school administrators discovered that one of the top issues that they wish they had addressed sooner was to implement an online program. 

My wife works for a rather famous Liberal Arts 4-year.  They are in a full-on scramble to add an online program and a Computer Science program, and do it rather quickly.  Enrollment is way down and a focus group of students that turned down their acceptance to the school have indicated that they would not attend a school without at least partial online presence.

I will be as bold to say that not only are the comments AGAINST online schooling inaccurate and ignorant, but if a college wants to survive today, they MUST have an online course delivery offering.  My son is in the Engineering program at the University of Northern Florida.  So far, as a B&M student, his course delivery has been 30% online, and not by his selection.  The counselors are putting him in these courses. 

It is the way of the future, and traditional students from decades ago are going to be salty about it.