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> Most STEM work does not require that you be present on campus I was under the impression that the reason more STEM degrees weren't online because you can't e
by non-entity 6y ago
> Most STEM work does not require that you be present on campus
I was under the impression that the reason more STEM degrees weren't online because you can't effectively replicate science or engineering labs at home very well. Most engineers (not software engineers) I've talked too said they wouldn't take an online degree very seriously.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago> I was under the impression that the reason more STEM degrees weren't online because you can't effectively replicate science or engineering labs at home very well. True, you can't. But I have a BS degree in physics, and I took a grand total of one physics lab in four years. (I also took one in chemistry.) True, that's not engineering. But then, most math people don't take many labs at all. So maybe this is true of the "TE" parts of STEM, and not so true of the "SM" parts.
- m0zg 6y agoAnd that's why I said "most" STEM and not just "STEM". I'm sure labs could be set up to do experimental work. You just don't need the rest of the campus (and the blood sucking administrators that go with that). > they wouldn't take an online degree very seriously They would, if that was the only degree available. And I'm sure Stanford, of all places, can do it as well as anybody.