Credit for Industry Certs

[spazz]

Spazz, you obviously know nothing about accreditation, distance learning, or challenge exams. It's one thing to believe that the degree is worthless because of an "unwritten bias by nearly all employers/traditional colleges," but if you cannot believe what others tell you, and you can't be bothered to click on a link to view accreditation, why comment at all? Everyone here suggests research on the degree you chose prior to spending time and money on it, and we point out links to accreditation, and talk with admissions officials, and try to help eachother out with our own experiences. Just because you can't "believe" in online degrees, testing out, or lib arts degrees, doesn't have any bearing or relevance to anyone else. Be helpful and post a link to a top company that won't hire someone with a lib arts degree, or a distance ed degree... Otherwise, what's your point?

There are only a few major accrediations for business, engineering, nursing etc. I agree, there are hundreds of accrediation programs, but most of them are meaningless (because schools who have no clue make them up). The only accrediation for computing that people listen to is ABET. I would appreciate and challenge ANYONE on here to find me an ABET distance learning degree that you can completly test out. You cannot research common sense, I am sorry. It is not that I do not believe in online degrees, they are right for some people. But there is a limited on what you can do online and what you cant. For instance, you CANNOT do IT or any computing/engineering degree online. Practically EVERY course from an ABET program has LABS, Oral communication requirement etc etc. There is no WAY! It is common sense, same for Biology or any other science. Lets talk about business now, HOW IN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO GET A BUSINESS DEGREE ONLINE? 1/2 of the requirements for a typical business degree are presentation, oral projects, etc. It is simply not possible. This applies to practically ANY degree, probally even a liberal arts, since you would most likly need theater,science,business, etc.

I could practically name ANY company that will not hire people with a liberal arts degree. ANY job application that says requirement: BS in CS, or BS in Math etc. CHECK MONSTER OR ANY OTHER JOB SITE!!!!!!!!!

I agree, one thing they will not list is degree requirement (traditional or online), but you do not think the employer will look at what college you went to? If you're applying to a top company and specially in IT, where the market is VERY competitve. They are going to choose the person with the most experience (traditional) and who went to the top college.

COMMON SENSE!!!!