"Big 3" degree value?

[Maniac Craniac]

My boss Tunis very little of univ of Phoenix and doesn't know anything about Thomas edison, so she doesn't have a negative opinion of it.
We also hire a lot of people from India and they often have a bs from India and a masters from a US school. The India BS is totally ignored. Of course what the person can do and what they know is of much more value than where they were taught.
Over reliance on past affiliation with a school seems like a crutch to me. So I'd say, get your degree with the big three and spend the time and money you saved earning a masters or learning something that will enable you to add value at work.

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Although I have gone back and forth about this a whole lot in my mind, I'm starting to lean towards the Big Three (especially TESC) for completing my BA. The truth is, unless your degree is the one main thing setting you apart, then it probably doesn't make so much of a difference WHERE you get it, rather, THAT you get it. This is the exact case for me, and I've been considering the possibility of just getting the least expensive degree possible and using the saved money for the certification to interpret other languages, and using the saved time to actually study those other languages :coolgleam:

Then again, there is always the idea that I can never quell of going for a graduate degree. MBA from ENMU or MA in Linguistics from UNISA, or MA in Translation Studies from IGNOU, or all three! :roflol: If that lies in my future, the money has to come from somewhere, but it won't come from anywhere if I spend it all on a BA :nopity: