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Originally Posted by LadyDread2010
I think that the key to finding out whether or not a online university is legit is to travel to the school itself. Online scams occur everyday,and it's also important to check the school's accreditation. Also,most people attend online universities because it's more easier for those who have hectic professional and personal lives. But if you only have a hectic professional life,then go to grad school in person.
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I don't think it's so much an issue of scammary or not. I think there's just a basic assumption that an online program is not likely to be as rigorous, balanced or thorough as a traditional program. Lots of the learning comes from classroom discussions and personal interactions with other students and with faculty. An online degree just sounds too much like a correspondence course. That may be changing, I know, and probably will continue to change, but I think that the correspondence-school connotation is still wide-spread, and not without reason.
Perhaps I'm biased, but to be blunt, I probably wouldn't think of on online PhD as a "real" PhD. And I sure wouldn't consider a PhD from a school that's only online to be comparable to a PhD from a brick and morter institution. May not be fair, but that's how I see it.
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