Online College Ranking by Peer Web Citations

The peer Web citations metric could be considered a proxy for a college's relative status among other colleges. Using Yahoo! Search's linkdomain:example.edu site:.edu -site:example.edu backlink command (where example.edu is the college's domain name), we can find out how many times a particular college's Web site is linked to by other college's Web sites. The site:.edu portion of the search operator weeds out backlinks from non-academic Web sites. The -site:example.edu portion of the search operator weeds out any internal linking from the college's own Web site. All searches were conducted on December 4, 2008. We used Yahoo! Site Explorer rather than Google because Google returns only a random sample with its link: operator.

Rank	College	Peer Web Citations
1	Nova Southeastern University	4,950
2	Walden University	2,850
3	Franklin University	1,920
4	Regent University	1,070
5	Granite State College	1,040
6	University of Phoenix	993
7	National University	827
8	Devry University	714
9	National American University	629
10	Liberty University	567
11	Capella University	564
12	Champlain College	521
13	Western Governors University	467
14	Kaplan University	410
15	Upper Iowa University	398
16	Bellevue University	356
17	Tiffin University	349
18	LeTourneau University	296
19	Dickinson State University	287
20	City University	256
21	American InterContinental University	253
22	Grand Canyon University	252
23	ITT Technical Institute	239
24	Everest University	215
25	Baker College	211
26	Jones International University	180
27	Fisher College	164
28	Rasmussen College	137
29	Darton College	136
30	Northcentral University	114
31	Colorado Technical University	106
32	Berkeley College	96
33	South University	87
34	Western International University	86
35	Peirce College	85
36	Ashford University	76
36	Westwood College	76
38	York Technical College	72
39	Herzing College	48
40	Salem International University	41
41	Keiser University	38
42	Post University	32
43	Florida National College	15
44	Everglades University	3

Note: For some colleges, we searched for links to multiple domains:

American InterContinental University: aiuonline.edu and aiuniv.edu.
Capella University: capella.edu and capellauniversity.edu.
Colorado Technical University: coloradotech.edu and ctuonline.edu.
Dickinson State University: nodak.edu and dickinsonstate.edu.
Everest College: everest.edu, everestonline.edu, and everestcollege.edu.
Florida National College: florida-national.edu and fnc.edu.
Grand Canyon University: grand-canyon.edu and gcu.edu.
Herzing College: herzingonline.edu and herzing.edu.
ITT Technical Institute: itt-tech.edu and itttech.edu.
Jones International University: jonesinternational.edu, jiu.edu, and international.edu.
Kaplan University: kaplan.edu, kaplanuniversity.edu, and kucampus.edu.
Keiser University: keiseruniversity.edu and keisercareer.edu.
LeTourneau University: letu.edu and letourneau.edu.
Liberty University: libertyu.edu, liberty.edu, lbts.edu, and luonline.edu.
National American University: national.edu and nauonline.edu.
Rasmussen College: rasmussen.edu and rasmussenonline.edu.
University of Phoenix: phoenix.edu and uophx.edu.
Westwood College: westwood.edu and westwoodonline.edu.
York Technical College: yorktech.com and yorktech.edu.

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