While clearly unemployment is still way too high, it seems some students are better off than others.  Often the first qualified candidate gets the opportunity, thus those who can interview first have an advantage.  Online college provides students and soon to be graduates with far more versatility to pursue their career aspirations before the traditional graduating class of students enter the race.

When speaking with many soon-to-be graduates, many have found that those students who choose college online rather than campus-based colleges may have an advantage.  It seems that a higher percentage of them either have jobs prior to graduation or have had many more interviews.  Many of the soon-to-be graduates we spoke to say that the flexibility inherent in online college allows them the ability to be far more proactive in their job search, giving them what they believe to be a competitive advantage.  “I was able to go on interviews while my friends at campus schools were still months away from graduation and thus still stuck at their college campus”; “I had 5 in-person interviews and if the flexibility provided to me based on my online college was not there, I wouldn’t have been able to meet any of those companies” said Martha, a soon-to-be graduate from Georgia.  “I was able to start my new career before I actually graduate; that just doesn’t happen at traditional campus based colleges” said Mark from New York.

Whatever the reason, it seems evident that those pursuing college online have a new found advantage over those stuck in the framework of traditional campus learning.