Would you hire someone with an online business degree?
Sure, if the person was smart and talented enough. That’s our answer today. If you’d asked us a year ago, we would have hesitated. But recently we’ve met people with online degrees, and they tend to have a few traits in common. They’re older, working, and are unable financially to pause for two years. Yet they’re hungry to break open new possibilities in their careers. An MBA from a top school will always have cachet. And attending a campus program has inimitable virtues. But to count out a candidate based on an online degree may be shortsighted. People working all day and studying online all night have the kind of “grrr” most companies could use.
This question and answer originally appeared in Business Week magazine on January 14, 2008.
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