As I did write in a previous piece, private for profit colleges face several headwinds, especially online colleges like Apollo Group.
More importantly, the magazine plans to reach its tentacles into even more verticals, with rankings specifically for online colleges and individual doctors to debut soon.
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Third, online for profits colleges like Apollo Group have been facing increasing competition from regular colleges that develop their own outright programs or blended programs.
In fact, Beantown sits near the top of the list in nearly every category, thanks to its wealth of creative types, multiple colleges and active online-dating community.
As more schools embraced online education, smaller, less well-known colleges and for-profit universities drove further innovation in the online education space.
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While it is true that many proprietary colleges and universities use online methods to deliver instruction, not all do.
Students have grown wary of high-cost programs with low graduation rates, while more traditional colleges are edging into online education.
Kentucky's colleges have increased efforts to promote online education, and are also taking steps that could hurt academic quality, such as reducing course offerings and increasing the use of adjunct faculty.
The move also comes amid radical shifts to the education business, with online start-ups and top-flight colleges pushing more and more students to the Internet for low- and n0-cost education, and local school districts across the nation cutting budgets amid financial pressures.
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Market Data Retrieval, an educational market research company, found that 72 percent of the 2, 000 colleges that responded to its survey offered online courses in 1999-2000, compared with 48 percent in 1998-99.
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Colleges and universities are rushing to offer free online classes known as "massive open online courses, " or MOOCs.
This disruption will play out over years, if not decades, as struggling colleges fight to stay alive and student attitudes towards online education evolve.
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In order to compile the ranking of colleges, we turned to PayScale.com, an online compensation comparison tool.
The online report also describes the methodology and includes essays on for-profit colleges, overinvesting in higher education and the student debt bubble.
Online application services like Common App make it easier to apply to multiple colleges at once, making the application process less painful than it used to be, and one of the reasons why colleges are seeing more and more applications.
It is carrying out a pilot scheme for online GCSEs in chemistry, biology, physics and geography with 200 schools and colleges across the West Midlands and the west of England.
Assuming we see reputable online degrees emerge at a price point significantly lower than what traditional four-year colleges can provide, at what point in the hierarchy of higher education will people figure that the price premium for a residential experience is simply not worthwhile?
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Many colleges and universities are beginning to make forays into educational innovation, especially in online learning and degree programs.
Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
It actually operates within stores, powering in-shop rental kiosks for 80 colleges including NYU, UNC Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University, running online rentals for 100 schools, among them University of Oregon and Oregan State University.
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The effort is part of a recent rush of colleges, start-ups and nonprofits tapping a mix of Web services and software to open online educational ventures.
Massive open online courses, or so-called MOOCs, are opening up access to classes at a growing number of colleges and universities.
Instead of answering online listings, she put together a letter describing her interest, and sent it to PR professionals at 40 colleges and universities in her area.
Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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