Graduateprograms.com Announces Top Online Graduate Program Rankings

-- University of North Carolina Top Ranked; University of Oklahoma Second; Boise State University Ranked Third --

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Apr 27, 2015, 08:00 ET

ENGLEWOOD, N.J., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- For students who need strong academics but a flexible schedule, online degrees are a win-win solution. The thorough and individualized learning is just the type of education in which many students thrive.  

To that end, Graduate Programs is very excited to announce our Top Online Program Rankings. These rankings were compiled with votes from more than 70,000 students.

Please see the top online programs below. For the complete list, please go here: (http://www.graduateprograms.com/top-online-programs/) 

Overall top online graduate programs:

  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  2. University of Oklahoma
  3. Boise State University
  4. University of  Denver 
    University of West Florida

Business

  1. Indiana University Bloomington  
  2. The University of Scranton
  3. Penn State University Park
  4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
  5. Bellevue University  
    Washington State University

Communications     

  1. South Dakota State University
  2. University of Southern California
  3. The University of Alabama  
  4. American University  
  5. Franklin University

Computer Science

  1. Purdue University
  2. Southern Methodist University
  3. Florida Atlantic University
  4. Florida Institute of Technology  
  5. Georgia Institute of Technology  

Criminal justice:

  1. Michigan State University 
  2. Grand Canyon University  
  3. Colorado Technical University  
  4. University of Cincinnati  
  5. Saint Leo University  

Elementary Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University  
  2. Ohio University
  3. Jones International University
  4. Liberty University
  5. Old Dominion University

Engineering

  1. Southern Methodist University
  2. Stevens Institute of Technology  
  3. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  4. Boise State University
  5. Penn State

Library and Information Science

  1. University of Arizona
  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  3. University of Kentucky
  4. University of South Florida
  5. East Carolina University

Mental Health Counseling

  1. Bellevue University
  2. Regent University
  3. Texas A&M University - Commerce
  4. Liberty University
  5. Syracuse University  

Nursing

  1. University of Missouri-Kansas City
  2. Texas Woman's University
  3. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  4. Duke University
  5. Graceland University

Psychology

  1. University of Georgia  
  2. University of Florida
  3. Adler University  
  4. Capella University
  5. Nova Southeastern University  

Public Administration

  1. Bellevue University
  2. Penn State Harrisburg  
  3. CUNY John Jay College Criminal Justice  
  4. Villanova University
  5. Notre Dame de Namur University

Public Health

  1. University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  2. University of Southern California  
  3. University of West Florida
  4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  5. University of California-Berkeley

Social Work

  1. Rutgers University-New Brunswick
  2. Fordham University  
  3. Hunter College-CUNY
  4. Walden University  
  5. Columbia University

Theology

  1. Northwest Nazarene University  
  2. Saint Joseph's College of Maine
  3. Grand Canyon University  
  4. Regent University  
  5. Indiana Wesleyan University

     

Students can also read more about earning a graduate degree online at http://www.graduateprograms.com/online-graduate-programs/. Graduate Programs covers everything from business to medicine and engineering.

Students may continue to review their programs at www.graduateprograms.com and qualify to win a $1,000 scholarship, awarded once per semester. Reviews will be incorporated into upcoming program rankings.

METHODOLOGY

Here's how we crunched the numbers: Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. All rankings for top online graduate programs cover a period from Sept. 1, 2012 and March 31, 2015. The rankings encompass reviews posted by more than 70,000 students participating in over 1,600 graduate programs. Ratings are based on a 10 star system (with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best), as well as verbatim answers submitted by students.

Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.  For a given graduate program, rankings are determined by calculating the average score for each program based on the 15 ranking categories. These scores are then compared across all ranked schools for that program and are translated into a final ranking for that graduate program, i.e., business and management. A given graduate program is not ranked until a minimum threshold of graduate student surveys is completed for that graduate program.

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