Top 20 Colleges Online
Are you thinking of earning a degree online? Is there an online program that you are interested in? If you answered yes, you can’t be too careful about choosing which college too enroll in. Thankfully, there are resources that list down the top 20 colleges online today. One example is the Online Education Database or OEDb. According to OEDb, the top 20 colleges online today are:
- Nova Southeastern University
- Regent University
- Champlain College
- Upper Iowa University
- LeTourneau University
- Liberty University
- Grand Canyon University
- Dickinson State University
- Western Governors University
- Salem International University
- Keiser University
- Fisher College
- National University
- Walden University
- Tiffin University
- Westwood College
- Post University
- ITT Technical Institute
- Colorado Technical University
- Everglades University
As far as lists on online colleges go, this is the most reliable. The Online Education Database has employed a very reliable method on coming up with this list. Their criteria and ranking metrics are valid and is respected in the nation.
The schools that the OEDb analyzed and ranked are recognized by the DETC and eLearners. They also included colleges that are part of the distance learning and online education search on Peterson’s. After gathering all schools, the list was then trimmed down according to several criteria. These were accreditation and College Navigator inclusion. The OEDb also made sure that the college offers more than one undergraduate program online and if it has on-campus programs, more than half must be offered online.
After further trimming down the list, the schools were then ranked according to several ranking metrics. These metrics were acceptance rate, financial aid offer, graduation rate, peer web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and number of years of accreditation. After weighing all metrics, the OEDb then came up with the top 20 colleges listed above.
“Source: OEDb”