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online degree programs psychology | annual online college rankings released

Posted by bposton on January 23rd, 2008 — Posted in online degree programs psychology

Hi there my dorm room buddy,

I thought I’d let you know that the second annual online college rankings have been released.

So, are you interested in knowing which online school is number one?

I’ll get to that later First I want to explain these rankings, who does them and how:

First who does the ranking: That’s OEDb (Online Education Database).
Founded in 2006, OEDb is dedicated to providing comprehensive reviews of accredited online colleges and universities and the degree programs they offer. OEDb is headquartered in Houston, Texas and is privately owned and operated.

Now that you know who, lets talk about how:

Each school’s ranking is based on data gathered from eight different measurement areas. These eight area are:
acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited. 

Last year’s rankings by OEDb was the first of its kind, and each year OEDb works hard to improve upon its rankings by adding new colleges, and adding data as more information becomes available.

So, who is the number one online college, according to OEDb?

That would be Upper Iowa University
(applause, please )

Rounding out the top ten:

Nova Southeastern University
California University of Pennsylvania,
Grand Canyon University
Regent University
Champlain College
Westwood College
Tiffin University

And they give “honorable mention” to ITT Technical Institute at 16th, Kaplan University at 17th, and the University of Phoenix at 25th.

Last years top school? Grand Canyon University