In response to some responses to my post:
1. The Kollel in Boston is not in Cambridge, it’s in Brookline. While some yeshivish students at all the local universities go there to learn, most frum people living in Cambridge don’t even know it exists. There is Chabad and some kiruv organizations at Harvard, but they have a bit of a problem in that the students are too smart and focused to fall for the regular kiruv shpiel. The only students in Cambridge whom anyone has a chance at being mekarev are the Lesley University students. They turn up for the events, like the purim costume parties, but the non-frum students stay non-frum and the frum students go off the derech.
2. I have a close friend who got an online degree and went to a top law school. My impression was that online degrees are less valued than yeshiva degrees though.