Do you believe degrees from an on-line university hold the same weight as a traditional degree to prospective employers?

As an ex-employer, I would give no credence to one. The reason is not prejudice but experience as I once did an on-line course which gave me useful information but found it carried no official weight. I would say that they are not normally accepted by firms as genuine centres of learning.

Degrees from the for-profit and/or online schools are worth very very little.

In some cases, they may be a way to get a class in something you cannot get somewhere else, like if you need someone to teach a particular piece of software at least halfway. But the degrees themselves look essentially make-believe.

Those schools are known for things like milking student loans, while misleading students and giving a lousy education. Some "real" universities do offer online classes for people, especially geared towards working professionals who have already graduated from elsewhere, but they won't put out degrees based on them.

Anyway, no, from an employer's perspective, the online degrees carry virtually no weight compared to traditional ones.

SMART employers ask one or two simple questions, (1) Is your university accredited? (2) who accredited your university. Maybe University of Arizona online is accredited, but NO OTHER online university is. So, yeah on-limne degrees are not worht the paper they're printed on.

Those are diploma mills and the diploma ain't worth the paper it is printed on. There is a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum

no not a chance, most are completely worthless