With online education coming under severe scrutiny of late, the most important factor that seems to be coming up is the accreditation of the the Institution or college offering that online course.

As per the faculty of the University of Phoenix online , which is one of the nation’s largest institution for online learning , which has had more than 4000 people graduating from it since 1994, awarding associates, bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in diverse disciplines covering nursing, business, legal and Information technology , UOP had over 70,000  students enrolled in September , both for online and also for campus programs. They have been accredited since 1989 and have maintained the same accreditation as major universities.

“This offers the working adult the basic convenience of doing the program at home .

The single most important question that comes to the mind of potential students is the legitimacy of the program, considering it is web based. The validity of a program can assessed by its level of accreditation

 We are like every other university , except that we are online”

To summarize , one should check the level of accreditation of an online degree before enrolling

some of the excerpts are from Kuam News