Can you do a regular post graduate course by having distant eduaction degree?

Answer 1

Answer 1: "Distance education," be it by correspondence, or using a computer, online -- in other words, regardless of the distance education's particular modality -- is exactly the same as if it were in a physical classroom. There is absolutely no difference between a degree earned in a physical classroom, and one earned online. None! Distance learning is not sub-standard to in-classroom learning...

...and, in fact, the US Department of Education (USDE) has, over the years, commissioned several studies, all of which conclude that distance learning students work just as hard -- harder, in fact -- as/than do their in-classroom counterparts; that they're more self-disciplined; and that they tend to do better and learn more than their in-classroom counterparts.

Do not presume that an entirely-distance-learning degree is in any manner worse than an in-classroom one. Online learning has gotten a bad name in some ignorant persons' minds because all degree/diploma mills operate online. But it's a "all thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs" sort of thing in the sense that all mills are online because it's easier to build an impressive website with which to fool people than it is to build a physical campus with which to do the same. So, then, all mills are online. But even Harvard and Yale now offer degrees entirely online; so, obviously, not all online degree programs are degree/diploma mills. Again, thumbs/fingers.

Ignorant people don't understand (or some of them can't even discern) the difference; and so they'll say that an online degree is laughed at, or worthless. Don't believe it. Again: Harvard and Yale.

And so, if you have an undergraduate degree that was earned partly, mostly or even entirely online (or by some other distance learning modality), then you will have no trouble entering a graduate program citing said online degree as requisite for entry to it...

...of course, that assumes that the online degree is accredited by, in the case of the US, an agency approved by the US Department of Education (USDE), and/or the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

If the online degree is not so accredited, then it is probably from a degree or diploma mill, and so is worthless. In fact, there are now some US states where citing a degree from a mill (on a resume, business card, in advertising, on letterhead, in a job application, etc.) can even get you arrested (or at least civilly cited) by the state! Or, even if the online degree isn't from a mill, but it's still unaccredited, then it's still not worth much. Most employers won't accept it; most college won't either allow its credits to transfer into any of its programs, or accept it as requisite for entry into any of its higher-level degree programs; and most government agencies won't accept an unaccredited degree for such things as either jobs or professional licensure.

So, again, the online degree needs to be accredited by a USDE- and/or CHEA-approved agency in order for it to be acceptable into a graduate program.

Or, if the online degree is from the UK or any other non-US country, then it needs to have been from a school that's country's equivalent of "accredited" (even if said country doesn't use that term in the same way that the US does).

The bottom line, though, is that as long as the undergraduate distance education degree is accredited, as we, in the US understand that term (or as whatever its country calls the equivalent of "accreditation"), then any accredited graduate program -- distance modality or in-classroom -- will likely accept it as requisite for entry. And I only write "likely" in that sentence because, remember, each school reserves the right to accept or reject any degree for whatever reasons it wants. But no accredited school should reject an accredited degree solely because it was earned via one or more distance learning modalities. Again: Harvard and Yale.