Top Ranked Online Schools and Universities

Online higher education is growing, but a lack of transparency is preventing it from reaching its full potential. Even though online colleges are now receiving increased respect from top employers, diploma mills and the like limit the prestige of a legitimate online degree.

Online Education Database (OEDb) provides rankings of online universities and colleges. They gather data for eight different metrics — acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited.

The overall ranking, shown below, ranks each college by its average ranking for each metric for which data was available. The table shows the overall ranking of each college, with its average rank in the right-hand column reflecting the sum of all of its ranks divided by the number of metrics for which data was found for that particular college.

Overall Rank	College	Average Rank
1	Nova Southeastern University	9.213
2	Regent University	11.663
3	Champlain College	13.290
4	Upper Iowa University	13.479
5	LeTourneau University	14.001
6	Liberty University	14.195
7	Grand Canyon University	15.502
8	Dickinson State University	17.269
9	Western Governors University	17.398
10	Salem International University	17.483
11	Keiser University	17.538
12	Fisher College	18.723
13	National University	19.136
14	Walden University	19.390
15	Tiffin University	21.573
16	Westwood College	21.597
17	Post University	21.701
18	ITT Technical Institute	21.894
19	Colorado Technical University	22.097
20	Everglades University	22.458
21	Everest University	22.930
22	Kaplan University	23.105
23	Capella University	23.390
24	Rasmussen College	23.582
25	Devry University	23.647
26	Berkeley College	23.777
27	Granite State College	24.141
28	Peirce College	26.289
29	Herzing College	26.456
30	South University	26.512
31	City University	26.560
32	Florida National College	26.648
33	York Technical College	26.668
34	Western International University	26.721
35	Darton College	26.792
36	Franklin University	27.356
37	Northcentral University	27.370
38	Ashford University	28.008
39	Baker College	28.124
40	Bellevue University	28.975
41	National American University	29.889
42	Jones International University	30.152

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