Does UMPI feel rewarding? Does it feed the soul.

[rachel83az]

I can't speak to the first part of your post, but there is no reason why the degree wouldn't be respected by anyone. UMPI is a state school. The degree itself says nothing about being earned online. It says nothing about the methods of instruction. All anyone will know is that you'll have a degree from a tiny state school that maybe few people have heard about. But that's the way it is with most state schools. Most people outside of Arizona (and not on these kinds of forums) probably don't know the difference between ASU, UofA, and NAU. What's the difference in ranking between Ohio State University and Ohio University? Nobody knows. Few people care, even in academia.

Assuming your grades are good, as long as you have at least 30 graded credits, which is coincidentally the minimum number required from UMPI, you won't have problems with most grad schools either. Even that isn't a huge barrier, however, as students from this forum have previously gone on to high-ranking grad and/or law schools with fewer graded credits than you can get from UMPI.