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Message: [QUOTE="huskiesNhoos, post: 3599211, member: 506"] I did my masters in engineering online, while working professionally. I liked the flexibility and as others have mentioned it's a lot more effective since I was motivated to take classes. Engineering is probably a subject more conducive to online learning since there's a lot of math that at that point you either get it or you don't. It's tough if there's lab based learning, but again that was mostly done for me in undergrad so most of my grad classes revolved around higher level math and theory. It took a while for me to learn how to learn while in undergrad and I think that's what makes the online learning more difficult at that stage in life. I cruised through high school near top of my class and really struggled first year of undergrad until I figured out how to take advantage of the on site resources at school: study groups, office hours with TA/professor, etc. Those are not as easily accomplished via online so you can really dig yourself in a hole pretty quick (I imagine). I'm sure the major reason kids hate it is the lack of true social interaction, which they probably make up for with more parties, which takes the focus away from the education part of college...which is already easy enough to do without the added incentive. [/QUOTE]