I'm looking to get a degree to better facilitate an exit for myself and significant other from the United States. (Looking at New Zealand, Germany, Ireland) Are online only degrees from the likes of ASU and similar any better or worse than one from in-person universities? (Mechanical or Electrical engineering is the plan)

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This whole comment will be from a UK perspective

In Britain they kind of tend to be (unless redditors are lying... which happens... so it could just an astroturfed narrative by the government to "sell" more degrees) but the important elements of getting a job, I feel, are how well you market yourself OR good luck and connections. Sometimes people have all 3.

The benefit of an in person uni in this regards is that good ones have employability teams which will coach you on preparing your cv on any day you want, and put on events to help people get experience.

I expect that online unis have the same thing (and to be fair I've gotten more help in this regard from the independent employment charity I use rather than the uni ones, which are basically just there to waste your time and keep their own staff in a job [notwithstanding the course specific ones]) but I guess the in person unis are more likely to have it as a service, and it might be more robust.

But basically since covid society has had to admit that an open university degree (our leading example of online degrees) is worth as much as a university degree, since people did uni degrees mostly online in 2020. SO the only reason someone might reject you is their own bias against people who stray from the norm, which is probably a boss you don't want to be working under.

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