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By Brian Burnsed
Online degrees gain respect among hiring managers, but traditional degrees are still far more reputable
Doreen Clark graduated from
But after some research, and realizing she would have difficulty obtaining an M.B.A. while working as a full-time public relations representative, the once-crazy idea seemed sane. A year after graduating from
Other people with online graduate degrees may find themselves wading into similarly lukewarm employment waters. A
survey of 449 human resource professionals by the
The survey also indicated that 87 percent of HR professionals view online degrees in a more favorable light than they did five years ago. Career counselors like Bruce A. Hurwitz, who regularly works with job seekers armed with online degrees, have taken notice. While he refuses to assist people who acquired degrees from online institutions with questionable accreditation or no accreditation at all, he claims that employers no longer scoff at résumés from applicants who attended better-known online schools like the
Though Hurwitz has experienced firsthand that the market is growing kinder to online graduates, data indicate that many hiring managers are still wary. Forty-five percent of the HR managers surveyed said that candidates with traditional degrees have a better chance of being hired for a given position than someone possessing an online degree. Kimmelman suggests that online degrees are best suited for lower-level job seekers in fields like criminal justice or medical assistance and that it will take time for graduate degrees obtained online to gain esteem. "If you're looking at hiring a world class marketing person for your business and [you have a résumé from] somebody that goes to a top business school in the U.S., there's a much stronger likelihood that that person will get a job than somebody with an online business degree in marketing," he says.
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