The advantages of getting a college degree from a university are many fold. A university education not only provides technical courses in a specific subject-area, but also the support courses in the areas of written and oral communications, mathematics, statistics, science, graphics, and liberal arts which are necessary to truly understand and comprehend the technical subject matter. Course content is not just the mechanics of an operation, but also the why and when an operation should be done. This form of education results in an individual with a better conceptual understanding of the problems they encounter. Furthermore, the education you receive from a university will adapt to the new technologies that will be developed in the future.
Most professionals are location bound by their family and job.
In addition, there are only a handful of universities in the United States that offer baccalaureate degrees in surveying. Thus education is generally obtained in a sporadic fashion through workshops. Due to their short time frame, however, workshops tend to provide a limited amount of information and often workshop participants feel over-whelmed due to a lack of preparatory information. A course offered on the Web is similar to a correspondence course. You will learn at your own pace and repeat material as often as is required to better understand the concepts.