Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Bachelor Degree Programs

Life is a never ending learning process; it's like studying every day. Ever since we were young we've been studying, learning things such as how to talk, walk, eat, take a bath, and the when we grow older we go to school.
Primary, secondary and then college, people learn new things every single day. People study to work, and earn a living, for they need to survive and in order to do that they need to earn money. You can earn more money by getting a bachelors degree.
In the academic life of students this is the first degree they can receive. Not all courses have bachelor degree, usually a bachelors degree is a four year course. The advantage of having a bachelor degree is that you will have a higher salary compare to non-graduates.
The disadvantage is that if you're a bachelor degree holder it doesn't mean that you won't have a hard time looking for a job. When looking for a job a degree is one advantage but you your personality, your character and many other factors are also important.
Things always have their advantages and disadvantages, here are some more of them to consider when looking at online bachelor degree programs:
Time: One advantage of these is time, you can study on your own time schedule. Even if you are at home or in school or at work online studying can be fit into your schedule.
Save more money: These days people often think about how to save money for just about everything. This is because of the global economic slowdown; with online education people can save time, money and effort. They can save bus fare, parking, tuition fees etc. You can save more when you study online compared if you go to a traditional school. For if you go to a campus school there are always additional fees that are being added all the time. Unlike when you are at home, they can't charge you anything because you are not using any school facilities.
You can finish a bachelor's degree within 2 years instead of 4.
You will have easy access to the net especially when you have research, assignment and projects.
Your computer skills will improve, you can gain more knowledge and learn new thing online.
The teacher's attention will be focused on you; this is actually a good thing. When the teacher can focus on one student, that student will be taught well, you won't be ashamed to ask or be embarrassed about your opinion because you don't have classmates to laugh at you.
You can live in your state and study in another.
If there are advantages then there will always be disadvantages. For example discipline, if you don't know how to discipline yourself with your schedule then won't be able to study effectively.
Motivation, is very important, sometimes students become motivated if they have someone they can compete with, in the case of online studies you have no one that you can compete with because you have no classmates.
Lack of interaction with people, people need to interact so they can learn how to communicate and adapt to different kinds of people. Fortunately, online discussion forums can compensate for this shortcoming.
Before deciding you need to think long and hard if online studies will suit you as an individual. For some it will and other's it won't.