In most cases, employers won’t even know you earned your degree online, so any bias they have is irrelevant.
Online degrees from legitimate online universities won’t specify that they were earned online—because the school has determined that the education they deliver online is the same quality as their on campus program. And you won’t need to indicate it was earned online in your resume or application.
If you’re considering an online school and you happen to see that they do differentiate between degrees earned online and degrees earned on-campus, it could be a red flag that the program isn’t very strong. A degree that says it was earned online will likely be less desirable to employers because of the history of online education and associations with degree mills and lower quality education.
Still, where your degree came from should be more important than whether it was earned online or not. Employers will probably be more interested in the school than whether or not you were on campus. A degree from a school with a reputation for producing quality graduates in your field will always be desirable, regardless of how you earned it.
If you’re not sure what you want to study yet, here are the top 25 online schools in the U.S. If you already know what you want to study though, here are rankings for top online degree program
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