The popularity of online schooling has exploded over the past twenty years. With the cost of attending, and living at a 4-year college through the roof more and more people are taking advantage of online degrees. I have a friend who is talented in interior design. She found out that our state requires her to be licensed and she needed a degree in interior design if she wanted to pursue it as a career. She decided that she would get her interior design degree online. It was affordable, it was less expensive than having to go back and forth to campus and she was able to work part-time while she obtained her degree.