<--online and in person classes
To begin with, check the accreditation of the school. That is very important. If you can do an online class that does proctored finals that is good. A proctored final just means you go to a local school or facility approved by your school and you take the final in person with a proctor nearby ensuring you are not cheating. That is just nice to have that so you can say you did the exams in person in a timed and monitored setting.
Some classes should not be done online. For example, I am about to finish my bachelor degree in 4 weeks and I do online and face to face, but I have a unique situation in that I take my classes on a military post overseas. I have a limited array of available face to face classes and although they try to give us options here they do not have professors in our location that can teach physics or chemistry. I could have taken those online and I would be done with my prereqs and my bachelor degree in 4 weeks, but alas it is NEVER advisable to take the science classes online. So I "sucked it up" on this one and when we move back to the states I have to enroll in another school to finish up my science prereqs.
Employers may or may not look at them in a different light, but medical school definitely does. Some med schools say no online classes period....such as Yale, while others say it is okay to do some of them online provided you do the science classes in person. Each school is different so check that out, each employer is different as well so you need to check into the specific places you have your eye set on.
Another tidbit since I am experienced with online classes and face to face. They both have pros and cons. In terms of online classes, if you question your self discipline or do not have good skills in time management then it may be a challenge for you. Of course you can develop those things over time, but do not dive in taking a lot of hard classes online at the very beginning if you do not have a strong skill set in those areas. Although you will engage in conversations with the professor and classmates so some interaction occurs, you do no thave the same push that you get in a face to face environment with a professor asking for the assignment or reminding you about that term paper due date. Sure they put out daily announcements, email/phone is available and you engage in convos like I mentioned, but it is not the same in terms of pushing you. Some students are fine with online, but others struggle.
I am sure some of the questionable online schools that only operate online and lack good accreditation are easy, but you should never use those schools and I personally despise those schools because they give classes like mine a bad name. Stay away from those because schools will recognize the lack of accreditation, some employers might not, but why gamble it?
