Real World “exposure” that you have had would be a benefit. However, the ‘best’ you could do via online, is to find a land college(s) that offers the specific type of degree you want – then go in person and discuss with them exactly what type/which courses that they would accept as ‘transfer’ credits into their programs.

The only courses that might be transferable are probably going to be the first or second year ‘basic’ courses that most any student has to take. But if you do not do this and find out ‘exactly’, you will be wasting your time and money because unless you can get a college to accept those courses that you took on line, it is a waste of effort.

Check out “Phoenix’ online college courses – they even offer complete, legitimate degrees for Some things.

I understand that a FEW online ‘colleges’ are respected enough for some of their courses to be accepted by land based colleges – you Must find out which ones those are – from the college you will want to transfer the credits to. ….and from Which on line college they accept the course from.

I have a BBA – Finance, and an MBA, And I became a ‘Mud Engineer’ (this is a Real job and job title for those of you not familiar with the oil fields) for a short time, until they wanted to assign me full time, after school, to an off-shore rig 18 miles off the coast, Or to a jungle site in Brazil where they have to fly you in for two weeks by helicopter because there are no roads. Then I said No thank you, and quit and went back to school to finish my MBA.

….by the way, I have been to ‘hundreds’ of various types of schools and classes, from my military – electronic countermeasures, to regular colleges, etc, etc. …That ‘Mud Engineer’ school – 8 months (had to spend part of it on that off shore rig), it was without a doubt, one of the hardest schools I have ever been to!! …it needed to be, because you literally had the ‘lives’ of the entire crew in Your hands 24/7 while you were on site – until you were replaced by another mud engineer.

50 students With their under graduate degrees completed – all of them with either chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or mathematics degrees started the course. There were only two of us of out of the 50 who had non-science degrees.

Out of 50 who started, only 35 finished the school and the rest ‘washed out’. And these were Smart people! Bragging – but I was among the top 10%.

You NEED in class room schooling, plus real world experience in your field – if you can get it (ie. – summer internships), and you need to do well in all of it, certainly the Best you can do.