Will an online degree get you a job that requires "CS or equivalent 4-year degree"? [on hold]
- by qel
I'm a nerdy slacker type who didn't get my life together till I was 30. I've had a real job for a couple years doing C#/SQL. I've gotten several raises, but I'm making less than most developers, and the atmosphere is ... not positive.
Looking for a new job, I think my applications get thrown out because I don't have a degree. And I want to finish a Bachelor's just to feel like less of a loser.
I have a lot of college credits from 1996-2003 and a low GPA, so I don't know if that's worth much.
An online degree looks like a good option, but I just don't know what I should be looking at for online schools because they all look like fake degrees. If they had programs equivalent to a real Comp Sci degree, I don't think they would have weird sounding names like they do.
University of Phoenix has a B.S./Information Technology-Software Engineering.
DeVry has a B.S./Computer Engineering Technology program.
But that's not CS, and most other things I see have even more fake-sounding names.
Are these useless degrees? Some people say DeVry and UoP are acceptable, some people say they're a joke.
I have enough experience now, though, that maybe all I'm missing is being able to check the box that I have a 4-year degree.
Harvard Extension seems like a real degree, even if it isn't a real Harvard degree, but I'd have to live there at least 3 months, which kinda defeats the purpose of an online degree fitting around work.
