Is it practical to be working while pursuing an online college degree?

It might be practical for you, or it might be impossible. It depends on your talents, your situation, your need and priorities. Attending college IS a full time job, unless you attend part-time.

If you are attending full time, that is your job. Of course, many people have to work and attend school and it can be done. But it is very difficult to attend full time and work full time.

You need to have lots of support and your life needs to be as stress free and easy going as possible. For example, if you have a long commute to your job and your school, you may have given yourself an impossible assignment. The more priorities in your life, the more difficult this task will be.

Consider all your priorities carefully before making a good choice for yourself. It can be done, but it’s not easy.

I just did this. I was teaching high school full-time when I started an online program to get a degree in Educational Leadership. The degree took 18 months, and during the last semester of it, I had been promoted to a department head position which meant a lot more responsibility and work.

Was this practical? Ummm... well it wasn't ideal, but for advancement of my career goals it was necessary. It was VERY stressful, but my wife did a great job of supporting me.

The online courses required LOTS of reading, analysis and writing. I'm a pretty decent writer when I put effort into it, but it takes me a lot of time. On top of that, I'm a relatively slow reader... so the online courses took a LOT of time.

There were many nights where I stayed up till 1:00 am doing work. It was worth it to me however to have the flexibility of when I worked on my assignments and not to have to travel 2 hours round trip to take classes. As far as value goes, I did my research and found an online program that fit my needs.

The tuition was actually slightly cheaper than 2 of the 3 alternatives, and when you factored in travel savings, it was the cheapest option. I took the work seriously and feel that I learned a lot from doing the readings, research and participating in online forum postings. When I talked to friends who taking classes at the regional colleges, I felt like I was doing more work than them.In the end it was very worthwhile, but extremely demanding and difficult.

I think you'll have to decide for yourself if it's practical based on your motivations, the rigor of the course work and your life schedule. Good luck!

It is very hard to work a full time job and get an education at the same time if you try to do both full time. A good rule of thumb is that if you take more than 15 credit hours a semester, you should only work part time. The reason why is that for every credit hour of classes you take, you will have at least 2 hours of homework.

From blogs.setonhill. Com -quote The "credit hour" is a slippery a concept because college students and teachers put far more "work" into a course than the typical three hours-per-week, student-in-seat interfacing. -endquote If you get your degree online it will help you out a little bit.

You won't have to commute to campus. You'll be able to listen to lectures and take tests and quizzes on your own time. You will still have almost the same amount of coursework online as you would if you took the class in person.

I've known people who worked full time and went to school full time. Those two things become their life. Unless you can learn a method to speed read (there are some good ones available online), you will have a very busy three to four years in college.

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