OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009: Ranking by Graduation Rate

The graduation rate is an indicator of success of a college's students in attaining their educational goals. The figures are provided by the College Navigator database from the Institute of Education Sciences, a sub-agency of the US Department of Education. College Navigator defines graduation rate, for 2007, as the percentage of full-time, first-time undergraduate students beginning a program in 2001 who graduated within 150% of the normal time to program completion. (For example, for a four-year program, the graduation rate includes students who graduate withing six years of beginning the program.)

College Navigator did not have graduation rate figures for all of the online colleges. We did not however want to penalize those colleges without figures. To that end, we have adjusted the rankings of the colleges in this category. Read more about adjusted rankings.

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OEDb's Online College Rankings ranks 44 of the nation's top online colleges by eight different metrics. Please read more about this study or about our methodology for additional information.