<p>WilliamHill, nobody looks down on going to extension school (or night school, or whatever you want to call it). </p>
<p>What people look down on is when someone goes to an extension school (or the like) that is part of a prominent university just so the person can have the prominent university’s name on a resume. </p>
<p>Just do some digging on LinkedIn and there are tons of people who do something like go to an executive education program at Harvard (requiring just a few thousand dollars, and otherwise open to anyone) and then put “HARVARD” all over their resume and profile, as if an executive education certificate is remotely the same thing as an M.D. or B.A. from Harvard.</p>
<p>Don’t do that. Go to HES if it is genuinely the best school for you (regardless of name), but don’t do it just for the Harvard name, since people who know anything about Harvard know the difference, and there are plenty of schools that could open more doors for you.</p>
<p>I’ve taken a few continuing education classes at NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies: classes that were targeted to a specific thing that I was dealing with at work. The classes were fine (and very helpful, actually), but I’d rather have a degree from a non-continuing education program, even if the school overall were less prominent than NYU.</p>