For undergraduate programs? Sure. For a Masters? I suppose. For both, what matters is the reputation of the school, really, not the online&#x2F;physical dimension. For someone like Georgia Tech, <i>they&#x27;re</i> the ones who are going to be badly hurt if they cheapen their online classes, so I&#x27;m reasonably sure that isn&#x27;t going to happen.<p>Accreditation is an attempt to capture that reputation in a way that someone who has no idea about anything else can trust. Unfortunately, while you cannot game real reputation, gaming the accreditation is (almost intentionally) trivial.<p>A PhD, though, requires a lot of one-on-one time with a real faculty member. It&#x27;s very much an apprenticeship sort of position. I&#x27;ve know people who did that remotely, and it&#x27;s <i>harder</i> than doing it while being physically present. Getting a PhD while keeping a full time job is a very bad idea (I&#x27;m perfect evidence of this), and trying to do it &#x27;online&#x27; is going to make that worse.