online accounting degree

Colleges and universities that offer an online accounting degree

Current trends towards online degrees in general, including schools offering an online accounting degree

There is currently a revolution in education with an acceleration in the use of online technologies to assist or, in many cases, supplant traditional modes of instruction. Even as early as the late 1990s Peterson's Guide reported that nearly 400 accredited colleges and universities in North America employed online instruction of some sort (the number is of course much higher now).

In addition, as early as 1997 over 150 accredited institutions offered entire bachelor's degree programs to students who rarely, if ever, visited campus. Again, today that number is much, much higher.

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Of particular interest is a Gubernick & Ebeling report - a study conducted by the University of Phoenix (a private, for-profit institution) that demonstrated standardized achievement test scores of its online graduates were 5% to 10% higher than graduates of competing on-campus programs at three Arizona public universities.

While one may legitimately question the degree of comparability of the subject of populations, these results are similar to those summarized by Vasarhelyi and Graham (1997) in which investigators at the University of Michigan concluded that computer-based instruction yielded higher average scores than traditional instruction.

References

Gubernick, L. And Ebeling, A. 1997. "I got my degree through E-mail." Forbes, 159, p. 84-92.

Vasarhelyi, M. and Graham L. 1997. "Cybersmart: Education and the Internet." Management Accounting, (Aug), p. 32-36

Note: information is partially based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics