OEDb's Online College Rankings 2007: Ranking by Peer Web Citations

Update: OEDb has released the 2008 rankings. This is an archived page from the 2007 rankings.

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 January 16, 2007. We used Yahoo! Site Explorer rather than Google because Google returns only a random sample with its link: operator.

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

• American InterContinental University: aiuonline.edu and aiuniv.edu.
• Colorado Technical University: coloradotech.edu and ctuonline.edu.
• Florida Metropolitan University: fmu.edu and fmuonline.edu.
• Jones International University: jonesinternational.edu, jiu.edu, and international.edu.
• University of Phoenix: phoenix.edu and uophx.edu.
• Westwood College: westwood.edu and westwoodonline.edu.

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OEDb's Online College Rankings ranks 21 of the nation's top online colleges by eight different metrics. Please read more about this study or about our methodology for additional information.