A welcome from me, also!
What is your end goal? Are you wanting to be a professor? Saying, you might want to check around and make sure the schools you would be interested in would "accept" the online degree.
Also, might I recommend looking at the program and seeing how much of it would work into a doctoral program. You would go into the master's program with the goal of having as much as possible going towards your PhD. You don't want to give your time, effort, and money to classes and find out you lose a year or so.
Attached is from a post Dr. Kritsonis posted on the ASQ website. I have found his statements/answers quite useful.
Here is a website with some really useful information about the PhD process and all (note: I have no affiliation with them):
http://www.dissertationdoctor.com/
Obviously they exist to provide a for-fee service, but they have a huge amount of really good information there. The link of the story about the woman procrastinating on her dissertation is pretty entertaining and accurate (an English major at that!

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Sorry I really could not help about good English programs. I might call your local college (or call a college you think is pretty good) and ask them.