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Nova Southeastern U Tops Online College Rankings

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 01/08/09

Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL took the top spot in a ranking of online colleges and degree programs by the Online Education Database. The OEDb Online College Rankings 2009 evaluates and ranks 44 undergraduate colleges and universities that offer most or all of their degree programs online. Nova Southeastern has both traditional classrooms and a distance education degree program.

OEDb's rankings are based on data derived from eight different metrics: acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited. The resulting list accumulates the average ranking in each metric for which data was available.

Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA; Champlain College in Burlington, VT; Upper Iowa University in Fayette; and LeTourneau University in Longview, TX were ranked second through fifth, respectively. All five institutions provide on-campus and online education programs.

"Regent University is thrilled to be recognized on a national level for our undergraduate online programs," said Tracy Stewart, VP of IT and executive director of the School of Undergraduate Studies. "We were able to build upon proven best practices and technology from our online graduate programs to launch our young undergraduate program on a solid foundation. And our faculty and students' commitment to the online programs is another indication of their quality."

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Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.

Comments

Fri, Feb 12, 2010 Em

Nova Southeastern University is NOT a joke. The previous individual just so happened to have a negative experience, which could very well occur at any school, even Harvard. Nova is very much a respected, credible, educational institution in Florida. It currently is hiring a series of new business professors for their H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business. These professors will be required to be full time Doctors only, which raises their standard for quality education. This is a change they are pursuing effective immediately. Educate yourself before basing any decision on comments made by people who have had independent negative experiences. Use primary and secondary research that is unbiased.

Thu, Sep 3, 2009

Gosh, tampa, if you put the same care into your coursework you put into writing that diatribe I can see why you didn't get much out of it.

Tue, Apr 28, 2009 tampa fl

I just completed my MS degree in education via the Nova SE online program. Nova online program is a complete joke- waste of money and time. This is a TERRIBLE program- NO feedback from professors- the assignments are irrelevant and out of date- the advisors are NON-existent- the ONLY way I ever got any response to my inquires and issues was to contact the Deans and heads of depts. directly. Half way through my program they changed the degree requirements and I was forced to take extra classes- meaning more time and money. Again - I would highly recommend that people think twice about this program. It is worthless- dealing with Nova is like one of those nightmarish customer service scenarios- countless time wasted on hold- unreturned calls and emails- constantly transfered to a different department etc...again - Nova is terrible. I am sooooooo glad to be finally done with this program- of course they will probably tell me that I have to take some extra class or diploma credits or something etc- there is ALWAYS some hidden fee/form/class to do. This program is disorganized and a joke.

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