Useless? No.
However, no online degree is as valuable as even the lowest ranked real university. But, if you can learn, and can learn to communicate (something I’m not 100% sure can be taught online) it can be of value. The biggest value of a university education just might be improved communication skills. You don’t gain that reading a computer screen with chips and dip on your Chicago T-shirt.
They can be worse than useless.
Having a degree on your resume from a for-profit online college can get your job application thrown in the trash even though you are otherwise qualified.
Why the rise in worthless for-profit degrees? Several factors:
Credentialism: job postings and promotions requiring degrees when they’re really not necessary. Entire professions keep raising the academic bar for membership unnecessarily — eg Nursing, Teaching, even Engineering is shortly going to require a Master’s.
Government Loan Guarantees: Loans look like free money to students who don’t think ahead about repayment. Also, loose government-backed loans underlie the entire sleazy business of for-profit colleges.
Post-HS fixup: So many USA High Schools are so bad, that a High School diploma has lost credibility, making a tertiary certificate necessary.
The decline of respect for apprenticeships makes students think they need a college degree, when if fact they would be happier, and more productive citizens, with journeyman papers after a long apprenticeship.
no, its not useless. Check to see if the program and university you go to are accredited. Lots of school offer online college, I think even ivy leagues offer online colleges.
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Look at good accredited Universities such as University of Maryland, or State colleges.
Do the research..