Others aren't really interested in your credentials. University is a personal achievement thing. As long as you feel the education you received is equal or greater than what you would have received in a brick and mortar institution, you should be happy with that, no?
With that said, most people do place a lot of value in the connections they made during their time in school. I'm not sure those connections can be built by online institutions. That may have a dramatic effect on opportunities one has later in life.
On an unrelated note, I had a teacher in high school several years ago that figured universities were already obsolete at that time. It's interesting it is a topic still in debate. Perhaps he was a man ahead of his time; he teaching style certainly was.
I would say credentials do indeed matter, although yes they are overshadowed quite a bit by professional networks.
Outside of simply procuring a job, they matter even more. As an example, the company I work at offers professional education services on CUDA and OpenCL (with other HPC architectures in the works). One of the guys who teaches it did his masters in EE at Stanford. I don't think the impact of that can be overstated when selling the service to companies.
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Others aren't really interested in your credentials. University is a personal achievement thing. As long as you feel the education you received is equal or greater than what you would have received in a brick and mortar institution, you should be happy with that, no?
With that said, most people do place a lot of value in the connections they made during their time in school. I'm not sure those connections can be built by online institutions. That may have a dramatic effect on opportunities one has later in life.
On an unrelated note, I had a teacher in high school several years ago that figured universities were already obsolete at that time. It's interesting it is a topic still in debate. Perhaps he was a man ahead of his time; he teaching style certainly was.
I would say credentials do indeed matter, although yes they are overshadowed quite a bit by professional networks.
Outside of simply procuring a job, they matter even more. As an example, the company I work at offers professional education services on CUDA and OpenCL (with other HPC architectures in the works). One of the guys who teaches it did his masters in EE at Stanford. I don't think the impact of that can be overstated when selling the service to companies.