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by the_only_law 1052 days ago
> Additionally doing a remote learning for a University degree does not look as well as physically attending

I was under the impression that an online degree, at least from a fairly reputable schools (I.e. not a for profit) makes no differentiation on paper between online and in-person. How would they even know? Are companies calling up the school to request such specific information?

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Some schools mark their online degrees and in-person degrees differently in transcripts/diplomas. Not all, GT for instance awards an MS CS for their OMSCS program participants so that there is no distinguishing trait between the two that someone can filter on.
If 2 things are valued the same and one of them is known to be less useful than the other (but you can’t tell those 2 things apart), how much do you think those 2 things are valued?

If companies can’t tell the difference, they’ll just ignore them both.