I assume &quot;recognized&quot; means that when a recruiter for those company sees that, their reaction is:<p>&quot;Nanodegree in... what the what? Oh, wait a second. Yeah, this is that PR from the Khan Academy or whatever. Sure, I recognize that from the other wave of applications.&quot;<p>Depending on the savvy of the recruiters they might start to figure that nano = one billionth, so a nano degree is roughly an eight of a second of a four year degree.