Immediate Online Degree Benefits

Immediate online degrees may prove advantageous. The following are some of the main benefits in obtaining a fast or immediate college or university degree online :

• You skip all the hassle of an ordinary college or university online study program. There are many levels and disciplines you can obtain.
• You skip the tuition fees and other major expenses, and just pay a one time fee (normally between 100 and 500 US dollars depending on which provider you choose). That fee will cover both your provider's mediation work and the issuing educational institution's administrative costs.
• Your degree will be a true one and will be issued by an existing college or university that will keep you on record and positively respond to any inquiries by potential employers or others. Student transcripts and records will also be made available to you if requested, including mark cards, record cards, etc. Nevertheless, you must understand that the prestige of such degrees will be lesser, and their actual usability for licensing in certain professions will be limited, especially when the degree is issued by educational institutions established in foreign jurisdictions.
• Your degree will arrive in a couple of weeks and that's it. You can hang it at home or in your office. It will be enough for most visitors and it will comfort you if by some reason you had to leave your studies and don't have the time to complete them now.
• Your degree allows you to enjoy a higher social status and be called doctor, proffesor, etcetera, or to make use of postnominal initials such as MBA, PhD and similar ones. This will certainly have a positive effect on your credit cards, business cards, tickets and bookings, passport and driving license, headed paper and other stationery. But, yes, you will have to face some critics.
• Most serious providers of fast or immediate degrees will keep absolute discretion on both you and the educational institutions providing the degree, and the latter will not advertise directly nor will maintain its own website.
• In most cases you can request a specific date of graduation to fit with your biography, provided you were 18 years old or older on the date requested. However, most providers will have a certain year as a limit to how far back you can request your graduation date to be set. This is in order to abide by the rules of the various educational institutions issuing the degrees. But please realize that many people might actually take this strategy as a blatant lie. You might be crossing the rather thin line between validating your experience with a flexible degree and simply buying a piece of paper.

1. Levels and disciplines available

When opting for a fast or immediate degree obtention online, the following levels and disciplines are normally available:

• Associate (level) of Commerce (discipline) = John Doe A.Com.
• Bachelor (level) of Arts (discipline) = John Doe B.A.
• Bachelor (level) of Science (discipline) = John Doe B.Sc.
• Master (level) of Business Administration (discipline) = John Doe M.B.A.
• Doctor (level) of Science (discipline) = John Doe D.Sc.
• Doctor (level) of Philosophy (discipline) = John Doe Ph.D.

Any Doctorate can be referred to either by the pre-nominal form or the post-nominal form, but never the 2 forms together:

"Dr. John Doe" or "John Doe Ph.D.", never "Dr. John Doe Ph.D."


2. Deal with your critics

The best way for you to deal with your critics on obtaining a fast or immediate degree online is just to ignore them.

Critics have no legal argument. Your provider's security protocols reduce the probability and impact of negative publicity, although they cannot remove the threat altogether. In the event that the institution you have graduated from is the target of such comments you should frankly, ignore them. Opinions of this nature (usually made anonymously or by people with very questionable histories involved in non-traditional degree granting institutions) carry no legal weight whatsoever. In the final analysis, what really counts is the legality of the degree. So long as you have not misused or misrepresented your online degree in violation of your country's legislation, you have nothing to fear.