Online Students versus Campus Students - The rivalry continues…

They play every year and sometimes they match up during the regular season but every time they play the fans look forward to it. College rivalries are some of the greatest spectacles in American culture and this latest and newest installment of the old college rivalry is no less intense. Because, the stakes in this rivalry is higher than in most. The winner in the end gets more than just the bragging rights for the next year he may have them for ten or fifteen years.

More than just a Big Game

It is more than just another game it is a battle of lifestyle, philosophies, and sometimes cultures. The Campus students just don’t think that their degrees and schools are better; they believe they are better people than their opponents.

Campus Students Blow Out Rivals

Early on in the rivalry it was a slam dunk the Campus students had better facilities, histories, great players, alumni, prestige and let’s face it credibility. The match ups where routinely blow outs of their online opponents.

Campus Recruiting Wars

This was before the online schools began to recruit older more experienced players and big money was starting to be thrown at the online campuses. Then some of the big campus schools began to dip into the online genre blurring the lines. This lent more credibility to the online schools and the recruiting wars began. Now they are closing the gap that the campus schools had enjoyed for years.

More Online Student Get Cracks at the Big Leagues

Now online colleges players are getting some of the same cracks at the big leagues that their campus rivals use to have almost exclusively and these player are doing it with less of an investment in time and money.

Online Students Big Leagues Success Stories

Now some of the campus students are transfer to online school to get the benefits that online students were getting all along. Although the gap that has been closed by the online students they has not come up with a clear cut victory for online colleges it has developed a steady stream of success stories in the professional leagues, where the games really count.

Let’s look at some memorable moment in this rivalries history;

• 1638 Harvard becomes the Americas first campus college - 1970s New Jersey Institute of Technology develops first online courses
• 1701 Yale University is started - Mid 1990s University of Phoenix and Kaplan University develop the realm of online education
• 2000 Fees for Campus colleges skyrocket - 2000 online colleges began to revolutionize education

Some Online College Talent Excels on the Big Field

Now we are at the point where some online degree are virtually indistinguishable from campus degrees and the only professional franchises that do not accept them are ones that are still holding on to old misconceptions and big campus loyalties.

Online Students Closing the Gap

As the rivalry is renewed daily on the big grid iron field of life, online student continue to close the gap and see increasing advantages over their campus college rivals, as the campus college student looks on with envy. I cannot wait to see the next big game!