While instructors are a critical component of the education paradigm, research into instructor perspectives on online education is sparse. The purpose of this phase of a larger study is to explore program factors in instructor perceptions of online versus face-to-face education at a Jesuit, Catholic private University in the northeast. A literature review indicates that demographic, individual instructor and program differences are the salient factors that influence these perceptions. Program factors that this portion of the study addressed includes program difficulty, interaction between students and instructors, interaction between the student and the instructor, cheating and technology preference.