GETTING A UNIVERSITY DEGREE ONLINE

Bright and ambitious students should not be deprived of the opportunity to actualize and consummate their higher educational goals on account of limited number of universities and inadequate facilities in existing universities in their countries of origin. The age in which we are is the Information Communication Technology (ICT) age. The world has become a global village. With the internet, students can enroll in the best universities in the world and receive lectures and instructional materials on the net, write their examinations, do their research projects (the internet provides even better facilities for research) and graduate with very good degrees just like students who went to the off-line universities.

I know of many respected persons and leaders in our society who in the 50s and 60s got enviable university degrees through correspondence studies. Some read and obtained the Law degree of the University of London right from Nigeria and graduated in flying colours, while others got the University of London degree in History. Scores of other people had by means of correspondence courses obtained the professional certificates in Accounting, Marketing, Institute of Bankers, Institute of Purchasing and Supplies diploma certificates, and so on, which placed them in high economic pedestal of the country at the time.

Today, the internet has made distant learning easier and much more pleasurable to engage in as students can interact with their lecturers by e-mail and feedbacks received on areas of ambiguity that require further clarifications. Besides visual tutorials, students can download lecture materials in form of e-book or audio. Video CDs can also be received as a supplement by mail which can be rewound or played back as many times as possible for better assimilation of the lecturers’ instructions.

With distant learning made possible through the internet, why would good students be incarcerated into half or lack of education or even outright ignorance because they cannot see beyond their environment to behold opportunities inherent in the global world? Now that you know, you will be in a position to look up the profiles of world acclaimed universities or colleges, all of which offer online degrees, to choose the ones that best meet your needs.