Open University
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Is an Open University degree (UK) held in the same regard as a degree from an actual university by employers?
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The Open University is an actual university with an actual campus with everything you would expect a university campus to have except undergraduate students. Postgraduates, researchers, lab facilities, an academic library, and so on. As with other British universities, the degree courses are overseen and assessed by external academic experts. Not only do employers regard the degrees awarded by the OU as being of a standard expected of the best British universities, but they award extra notional credits to the applicants for their jobs - because they generally recognise that the average OU student has to be far more of a self-starter, be better organised and work much more readily to externally imposed deadlines.
