On my Masters award and the other certificate that I got from studying online, no where does it say that it was an online degree or award as the university classes it as the same as their campus awards. It is a normal university award.

I think that you need to make sure that the final certificate, degree, award, etc that you will be getting from the university does not say online on it at all. i have head of this problem also in the UAE when it mentions online in the certificate.