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howdy brad. I too have been thinking about getting an online degree in astronomy as well and those two institutions you mentioned were the ones I most interested in. I think they are very legitimate courses, especially swinburne seeing as it has it's own campus right here in melbourne (not sure where JCU is based, is that also in australia?) But from various people I've spoken to, these kinds of degrees will help you get a foot in the door to tertiary education but will not help you get a research career in the field of astronomy itself. At least, that is true for the Swinburne degrees. Again, I can't be too sure about the JCU degrees but it would probably be a similar outcome. To get into professional astronomy research, you would definitely need a PhD. The problem also with these courses is that you have to pay outright, there is no hecs scheme that covers them so for me, enrolling is out of the question for now. If you are going to enrol Brad, do it as soon as possible to avoid not getting a place.
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