1 Penn State World Campus
(State College, PA)
Launched in 1998, Penn State World Campus is the online campus of the highly respected Pennsylvania State University.
Penn State World Campus offers has an impressive list of online programs, with more than 120 online programs leading to a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as certificate programs.
Penn State World Campus’s online offerings include degrees in fields such as technology, engineering, education, healthcare, business, and more.
Penn State World Campus enrolls more than 10,000 students. After the initial acceptance into the World Campus, students must receive acceptance into the appropriate college for their chosen major at Pennsylvania State University.
Online students receive instruction from the same world-class faculty members as on-campus students. Online students have access to academic advisers, career services, online tutoring, and library services.
World Campus offers courses in an asynchronous format, so students can complete coursework on their schedule. Students must complete readings, assignments, discussions, and exams by set deadlines. Some of Penn State World Campus’s graduate degree programs require a residency period of from a few days to two weeks in length.
Penn State World Campus graduates earn the same degree as traditional Penn State students. Graduates can join the largest alumni network in the United States.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes the Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus as a research university with very high research activity.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Pennsylvania State University-University Park #48 in National Universities in its 2015 edition of Best Colleges. The magazine also ranked the university #52 in its listing of Best Global Universities, #41 in its Best Business Schools list, and #33 in the Best Education Schools list. Penn State also tied for #14 in the magazine’s Top Public Schools list.
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 (provided by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ranked Pennsylvania State University-University Park #58. The university also received a #58 ranking from Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2014–2015.
Princeton Review included Pennsylvania State University-University Park in its 2015 Best 379 Colleges list, while Forbes ranked Penn State #76 among Research Universities.
Penn State’s Smeal College of Business ranked #30 in Bloomberg Business’s 2014 Undergraduate Business School Programs list.
A member of the Association of American Universities (an association of excellent North American research universities), Pennsylvania State University received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business also received accreditation from the respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
2 University of Florida Distance Learning
(Gainesville, FL)
The University of Florida, a public, sea-grant, space-grant, and land-grant research university established in 1853, enrolls more than 49,900 students. Consistently ranked among the top universities in the United States, the University of Florida offers more than 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
A member of the State University System of Florida, the university has 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. The University of Florida has a membership in the Association of American Universities (an association of excellent North American research universities).
Recognized for providing high-value education to students, the University of Florida offers a variety of online programs leading to bachelor, bachelor completion, master, specialist, and doctoral degrees. The university also offers a handful of international degree programs.
Undergraduate and graduate degree topics include environmental management in agriculture and natural resources, health education, biology, entomology, industrial and systems engineering, and Latin. Students also can pursue doctoral degrees in education, audiology, philosophy, classical studies, nursing practice, and pharmacy.
Applicants must meet the university’s general admission requirements and those specified by the degree program.
Distance learning students can access a variety of support services, such as an online course management system, library resources, career services, and an online registration system. University of Florida Distance Learning graduates can join an alumni network of more than 300,000 worldwide.
The University of Florida is one of the largest research universities in the nation. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes the University of Florida as a research university with very high research activity. The university is one of the leading universities in the United States in acquiring patents for research. Researchers at the University of Florida invented Gatorade.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Florida #48 in National Universities in its 2015 edition of Best Colleges. The university tied for #14 among Top Public Schools and #53 among Best Global Universities in the magazine’s listings. U.S. News & World Report also ranked the University of Florida #41 in Best Business Schools and #30 in Best Education Schools.
The University of Florida ranked #78 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 (provided by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University). In addition, the University of Florida ranked #126 in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2014–2015.
Bloomberg Business ranked the University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration #44 among Undergraduate Business School Programs, while Forbesranked the University of Florida #42 in Research Universities.
Princeton Review included the University of Florida in its 2015 Best 379 Colleges list.
The University of Florida received accreditation from the respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
3 UMass Online
(Shrewsbury, MA)
The University of Massachusetts, a public university system established in 1863, enrolls about 71,000 students across five campuses. The University of Massachusetts consists of four universities, a satellite campus, and a medical school.
UMass Online, the online consortium of the highly respected University of Massachusetts system, offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate (including doctoral) degree programs.
UMass Online’s degree offerings include an associate’s degree in information technology and more than 30 bachelor’s degree programs, including degree completion programs in topics such as nursing, applied psychology, criminal justice, and more.
The university also offers nearly 40 master’s degree programs in topics including gerontology, security studies, and vision studies; a doctoral degree in nursing practice; and dozens of certificate programs.
Online students receive instruction from the same faculty, earn the same degrees, and attend the same graduation ceremony as on-campus students. UMass Online students have access to a host of services, such as library help, fellowship advising, and academic counseling.
UMass Online received the Excellence in Distance Teaching Education award from the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA).
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognized University of Massachusetts-Amherst as a research university with very high research activity and recognized University of Massachusetts-Boston and University of Massachusetts-Lowell as research universities with high research activity.
UMass has a reputation for high-level research in numerous fields, such as nanotechnology, bioinformatics, renewable energy, remote sensing, vaccine development, and chemistry.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Massachusetts-Amherst #76 in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges in National Universities. The magazine also ranked UMass #115 in Best Global Universities and #42 in Best Education Schools. UMass also tied for #30 among Top Public Schools.
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst ranked 101–150 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 (provided by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University).
Times Higher Education listed UMass #91 in its World University Rankings 2014–2015. In addition, Forbes ranked UMass #100 in Research Universities, while Princeton Reviewincluded University of Massachusetts-Amherst in its 2015 Best 379 Colleges list.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management ranked #36 inBloomberg Business’s 2014 Undergraduate Business School Programs list.
The respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business provides accreditation to the University of Massachusetts branches in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell. The University of Massachusetts also holds accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
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