Guide to Online Associate Degrees
Are you ready to get your Associate Degree online? You will have to answer that for yourself but this website will provide you with more information on the different types of associate degrees that you can obtain and the benefits of doing so. The more you educate yourself on the advantages and disadvantages of getting your degree online vs. the traditional brick and morter school, the better off you will be when you finally make your decision.
Advantages to getting an Associate Degree online:
- Work from the comforts of your own home.
- Greater flexibility with online classes than traditional schools
- You are able to communicate more effectively with your instructors through email, voice and video chat.
- Ability to transfer credits.
- Not having to get up at a certain time every day of the week.
- Save time by not having to traveling to and from classes.
Disadvantages to getting an Associate Degree online:
- You need to be very self motivated to complete an online degree. It is much easier to postpone your studying if you're in the comforts of your own home compared to being physically in a classroom.
- Online degrees are generally not as accepted as traditional college degrees. This is something that has been changing over the past few years as online degrees from accredited schools become increasingly more and more accepted.
- You need a computer with a working and stable internet connection.
Common Associate Degree Abbreviations:
- AA - Associate of Arts
- AS - Associate of Science
- AAS - Associate of Applied Science or Associate of Arts and Sciences
- ABA - Associate of Business Administration
- AAB - Associate of Applied Business
- AGS - Associate of General Studies
There are many different career paths that you can choose based on what type of Associate Degree you obtain. Each "degree by subject" page will list these different career paths so you can see all the different possibilities for each type of degree. You may also find the additional information for each degree type useful. If you have a specific online school in mind for your associate degree you can directly navigate to that school to see all the degree types they offer.
There may be some questions you have about a particular online school or online degree once you have taken a look at this website. You can easily request more information for free from the online schools you are interested in by filling out a short form and you will be contacted by someone from that school to answer any additional questions you have about the associate degree you are interested in.
All the online colleges on this website are accredited and list what type of accreditation they hold.
