<p>How do medical schools view online degrees? The program I'm considering is from my fully accredited state school. I'm looking for ways to cut undergrad costs and want to know if this could be an option for me in the future...current school does not offer the major I'm interested in. The plan would be to take my pre-med classes in person at my current school and complete the major requirements (social science major) online via another school (its all within the same state school system, if that makes sense).</p>
<p>100% online degrees? Usually aren’t acceptable. Mostly because they come from unaccredited and often questionable colleges.</p>
<p>Completing coursework via online delivery through your state university system? That will usually be acceptable, esp if it’s not for pre-reqs or lab-based courses. </p>
<p>You need to make sure that your current college will accept these classes as counting toward your degree. WIll they be considered transfer credits? Or will these classes be counted as regular credit–just taken at a different campus? (I ask because colleges have rules about the number of allowable transfer credits that can be used to fulfill degree requirements. Typically the number of transfer credits allowed is limited, esp for upper level courses.)</p>
<p>Thanks WOWM. Yes, it will be through my state uni system. The credits I’ve completed at my current college will be transferred to the campus I’m completing my major requirements at. The transferred credits will count toward my basic requirements and electives at the new campus (all transferable because of agreements within the system). I haven’t completed any upper level courses so it looks like I’ll be fine. The new campus only requires that I complete 32 credits from their campus to be eligible for a degree from them. </p>
<p>The pre-med pre-reqs don’t need to be transferred to the new campus while I’m working on them—mainly because I’ll already have enough credits (between credits that I’ve already transferred and the major requirements still to be completed) to meet a minimum 120 credit requirement for a degree.</p>
<p>Important is that will your official transcript show those courses as earned ONLINE? Med School is so competitive that any weakness will be amplified and looked upon. If you have so many online credits, no matter in what field and subject matter, it will look bad. </p>
<p>For example, there are many MIT online courses, regardless whether it is credit or non credit, will some one look at it seriously?</p>
<p>The state system here in NC combine online courses with on-campus ones. Some classes are all online with novisit to campus needed, others require a visit to take a proctored exam at a testing only facility on campus and some are a combination of skype, Blackboard and online live chat models. The 16 campus system uses it in conjunction with the state’s community college system.</p>
<p>On the grade reports and official transcripts there is no way to discern if the class was all online, on-campus or a combination. It is not designated as a DE (distance education) class (online) or on campus. </p>
<p>Again this is true for UNC-Chapel Hill, NCSU, UNC Charlotte, ECU (who offers some of the most online degrees than other schools in the US, and has a medical school) and 12 other campuses. I know this because I have actually seen the official transcripts with the online courses listed and there is no way to differentiate. This is especially true for the classes where some stuff is online and some stuff is on campus. So for example a lecture is online and the lab portion is done on campus.</p>
<p>The community college system here which is very inexpensive ($50 per credit unit) offers so many of the GE courses online requiring no on-campus presence which again do not reflect the on-line status on the transcripts. It reduces the cost of commuting, parking passes and the texts are provided online as well for free. This works well for the lower income population and those working full-time already. It provides you with the ability of being in more than one place at a time.</p>
<p>So taking your English 101 online at the community college to satisfy one of the 2 semesters pre-med req writing requirement would not be recognizable on the official transcript.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
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<p>this was posted in the parents forum, interesting regarding the models changing</p>
<p>Kat</p>