How good are online schools?
The lack of long-standing authoritative metrics is no doubt a problem when developing credibility for an online degree. Many of the metrics which work for ranking traditional degrees do not work for online universities, causing most of them to be unranked in traditional lists. There are rankings for online institutions alone, but there is no authoritative list which combines BOTH traditional and online universities. Here is an evaluation of EarnMyDegree.com’s featured universities – both in the traditional sense as defined by USNews, and online rank as defined by OEDB. The site offers many more universities, but this was a list which they placed most prominently on their site. It’s important to keep in mind that in the below list – ‘unranked’ does not mean ‘ranked too poorly to count’ – It just means that it was not taken into consideration. • American InterContinental University (AIU) – Unranked in traditional rankings, 3rd in online rankings • University of Phoenix – Unranked in both
