obviously work experience gets a person a good position in corporate world. But if qualification accompanies along with his/her work experience he will be given first priority rather than the person who has no experience and has experience but no degree. Becos all the organisations cant take risk if the person does not have degree. In a degree you will bambarded with lot of things which may not be in use at the movement, but when you start to live in paractical it will be lot of useful to you. provided the candidate doesnt have experience he will be trained and get enough exposure after 2 or 3 years. but no company gives a qualification. specially when the time of promotion obviously one will look at all the parameters of an employee and gives an apprisal. In a current rapid growth world one requires work experience along with degree. To meet that need disatance educations came into lime light to make working executives to prove themselves in education field and working field and specifically to meet the company's requirement.