Online Masters Degree - What are your thoughts?

[pumpkinpony]

Franklin University in Ohio has a Marketing & Communication degree.
http://www.franklin.edu/degree-progr...-communication

I did the general MBA with them online. It's an 18 month program but it took me about 3 years, partly due to cost and partly due to my work schedule.

My experience with it... Different schools have different methods of learning, so look into that too and figure out which method works for you. I chose Franklin because it isn't all team based. Yes there is some team work, but a large part of your grade is from individual assignments. I took one class from a different school, and it was 100% team work. Sucks when you have someone on your team who never does anything!

Some, like Daniel Webster, give you your syllabus week by week, which really didn't work for me. Franklin gives you the entire class syllabus 10 days prior to the class starting which is great. I could look ahead and if I had a busy week at work coming up, I could double up on the work the week prior for example. One class I wrote almost all the papers for the class during one week!

Usually there is some sort of online 'classroom' to use. For team meetings we all got together once or twice a week and chatted about assignments. Most interaction was done via email or a message board.

Does your employer offer any tuition reimbursement? I was able to get about $5500 per year reimbursed. Don't forget FAFSA - I applied there and was able to get a loan to cover the cost of tuition, some was interest free and some wasn't. That was before I knew about the tuition reimbursement - once I figured that out I was able to pay the loan off rather quickly.