Online Universities have become a place for many busy working individual who are lacking of time and tight up with their job and family responsibilities to continue their education. If you are among the group who are looking to continue your education through an online university; here are a few important hints that you can use in your consideration when selecting your online university.
1. Accreditation
If you try to read any of online education guides, I believe you have come across this word “accreditation”. Almost all education guides will ask you to make sure that the online university or the online degree program that you are going to enroll must be accredited by any of the agencies that are recognized by the US Department of Education. In fact, all those guides are right and it is the most important factor to be considered when you select yours.
Basically, accreditation is a formal review process on school programs and policies by one of the agencies that are recognized by the US Department of Education to see if these programs are meeting certain criteria. When a school is found to meet these criteria, it is granted accreditation. If your degree is from an accredited online university, your degree will be accepted by most of employers. Hence, you eliminate the risk of unrecognized degree or fake degree issue when apply a job after graduation.
2. Get an Online Degree that Will Look Good In Your Resume
There are so many online universities and colleges available, sometime you will find it hard to decide which school to choose for your degree. Well, ask yourself, if you are an employer who are looking for a candidate for a position in the company, when you interview the job applicants and review their degree, degree from which school will make you feel better, a degree from well known universities like University of Phoenix and Kaplan University or an unknown university like University of ABC? I guest if you are the hiring manager, you probably will select the candidate who is holding a degree from well known university, right?
A degree from a well-known & prestige online university will make your resume look good. A candidate from a “good brand” online university will definitely impress the hiring manager and it make ease for you. Hence, you can do some analysis and get some feedback from any of online degree forums about the online universities short listed to see which one is the best known and best acceptable before you make up your decision.
3. Lab Works (if any) Near At Your Location
Some degree programs require you to complete a certain hours of lab works before you can earn the degree. If so and if your busy working schedule does not allow you to travel far, then, you need to consider the online university that has local facility or arrangement with any of local institution for you to carry out your lab work.
4. Credit Transfer
There are many online universities that allow you to transfer your credits earned from previous degree to save you some credit hours and credit cost. You can consider it if you have credits that may transfer to your new degree program. Always check out this information from the admission officer before your enroll into the program.
5. Good Academic Support
You will attend the class online by login into the online university teaching & learning system. Technology sometime creates difficulties such as unable to download the learning material or upload you assignment. Sometime, you may need help from the school to resolve the problems. Hence, a good support from online university is very importance to ensure the smoothness of your learning process.
In Summary
Selecting on online university for your degree sometime is a hard decision: too many options available, too many degree programs that seem like meeting your requirement. I hope the above hints will help to narrow down your scope of your choice and finally reach the ultimate decision on which online university to pursue your degree.
By: Amelia Turner
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5 Hints to Select your Online University
September 3rd, 2009Are there College Jobs Available?
August 21st, 2009You’ve finally been accepted to the college or university of your choice. Now all you have to do is find a job to be able to stay at school. Most colleges and universities know that the normal average student will have to have a job while they are in school. Because of this the school will usually have websites that enable their students a viable way of finding on-campus and some off-campus jobs.
The on-campus jobs that most universities and colleges offer are for the student body only. These jobs will be in the classes, for the different departments, and for the university itself. Some examples might be a job in the school cafeteria or perhaps in the cashier department of the university. Many departments will have job openings that the student can apply for, such as needing a student to log in students that participate in Chemistry Labs or a student to be a receptionist at the Math Department Office. These jobs tend to start at around $8-10 dollars an hour and can be anywhere from a few hours a week to a 20-25 hour work week. The student will have to check their class schedule with the work schedule to make sure it will fit.
The off-campus jobs that might be offered through the university or college website will usually come from companies and employers that are local to the area. The school might even host a job fair that will allow these companies and employers to actively recruit for employees. This is an easy way for the student to access potential employers and see if he or she will fit in with a certain company. Local companies that might be hiring college or university students could be the local grocery store or if there is a mall nearby it could be a retail store like the nearest bookstore or clothing store. More mainstream jobs available might be receptionist at a local clinic. The pay for this type job will be the same as an on-campus job.
Most college jobs have very few requirements and can be filled by the local population but there are jobs that are sometimes offered for specialty positions. These would be those jobs requiring a certain amount of college attained or perhaps a person that has already completed their associates or bachelors. The specialty jobs might also be available for a particular Major only. These type’s college jobs will typically pay more money than the others.
After checking you university or college website for sources of college jobs, there is of course always the mainstay of job search which is the newspaper and the internet job search. This will not typically give you any jobs that are available for on-campus employment but will be able to show you what other off-campus jobs might be available in your particular area. Again always check your class schedule with what the potential employer will require from you and it’s always a good idea to let your new boss know you are a student at the local university or college.
By: Dustin Hubbard
