Online College Ranking by Student-Faculty Ratio

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 This is an archived page from the 2007 rankings.

The more personal attention a student is able to receive from his/her professors, the more the student will become engaged in the subject matter. Nowhere is this reflected better than a college's student-faculty ratio, which can be found at Peterson's College Search. The lower this ratio, the more attractive a college should be in this regard.

Peterson's College Search did not have student-faculty ratios 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.

Adjusted Rank
(Rank)
CollegeStudent-Faculty Ratio
1 (1)City University7 to 1
2.25 (2)Granite State College10 to 1
2.25 (2)Western International University10 to 1
4.75 (4)Westwood College13 to 1
4.75 (4)South University13 to 1
4.75 (4)Post University13 to 1
8.5 (7)Bellevue University15 to 1
9.75 (8)University of Phoenix16 to 1
9.75 (8)Grand Canyon University16 to 1
12.25 (10)Florida Metropolitan University17 to 1
13.5 (11)Fisher College18 to 1
14.75 (12)University of Maryland University College20 to 1
14.75 (12)Strayer University20 to 1
14.75 (12)Colorado Technical University20 to 1
18.5 (15)Jones International University23 to 1
19.75 (16)Central Texas College40 to 1
21 (17)Western Governors University56 to 1
NRAmerican InterContinental UniversityNo Data
NRCapella UniversityNo Data
NRCardean UniversityNo Data
NRNorthcentral UniversityNo Data

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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.