Science Degree Online

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John Schrenker, MPA, has joined Roberts Wesleyan College to head up their newest online degree program designed for working adults. He will design and lead the new addition to the college's masters science degrees, which will be focused on health information administration.

In addition to developing the program and curricula, he will also teach selected courses. Schrenker said that what will make the program unique is that it will blend the technical knowledge of a medical informatics degree with the leadership skills of a health administration degree. The goal of the program is to equip graduates with the skills necessary to lead their organizations as they address the complicated issues surrounding the transition to electronic medical records,changing privacy laws and the electronic exchange of medical information. Because the program is entirely conducted online, it allows professionals the flexibility to schedule classes around their busy schedules.

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University rankings, such as those offered in the
good university guide 2012, were traditionally only for brick and mortar colleges that actually had a physical campus for students to learn and study. Nevertheless, the growth in popularity of the distance education degree has meant that the university ranking system is also useful for online computer science students too.

Some students like to overlook using university rankings because they want to focus more on the specific course offerings of a particular computer science department of a university. This is sometimes the major influence in a student's decision making. Nonetheless, many students partake in a computer science degree, whether online or offline, in order to get a well paying job. Many university rankings are helpful because they show students and employers which computer science degrees are strongest, with a higher caliber of students who deserve higher salary pays. There is often a positive correlation between a higher ranking computer science university and the average salary of the computer science graduates from that university.

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National Science Foundation (NSF) statistics show that the percentage of minority students earning a bachelor's degree or master's science degree in science and engineering from minority-serving institutions has declined over the last decade. According to the report's findings, underrepresented minorities including blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians are less likely than whites to attend college or to graduate.

Only 19 percent of blacks, 12% of Hispanics, and 37% of whites graduate college with at least a bachelor's degree. But for those who do graduate, the percentage of degrees in science and engineering has actually been increasing for across all groups. Specifically, underrepresented minorities received 10% of science and engineering degrees in 1989 compared with 17% in 2008. Their participation in social-behavioral, computer and medical and other life sciences has increased faster than in other science and engineering fields.