If I were an employer hoping to hire an engineer I would pass over anyone who got their degree by “distance learning.” I look around at the engineering students here and I see how much of their work involves getting together in small groups and teams, crunching design problems on their computers, talking with their professors frequently, and working in laboratories. You don’t get any of that in a DL degree.
Would you want to drive over a bridge designed by someone who learned their strengths of materials on-line or someone who learned their strengths of materials in a classroom + testing laboratory?
If I were an employer hoping to hire an engineer I would pass over anyone who got their degree by “distance learning.” I look around at the engineering students here and I see how much of their work involves getting together in small groups and teams, crunching design problems on their computers, talking with their professors frequently, and working in laboratories. You don’t get any of that in a DL degree.