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Top Online Colleges in the US

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University of Phoenix University of Phoenix — Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees. The world-class classes and faculty at the University of Phoenix are focused on helping you balance your education goals with your current personal or professional commitments.
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Kaplan University Kaplan University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. With both campus- and online-based programs, Kaplan University offers a quick path to your degree, making it the perfect continuing education school for working adults looking to improve their careers.
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Walden University Walden University — Bachelors, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees. Walden University is geared toward education working professionals in an online class delivery format that is designed to be both flexible and affordable.
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Westwood College Westwood College — Associate's, and Bachelor's Degrees. If you're seeking a broad choice of highly-ranked associate and bachelor's degree program, then you might want to learn more about Westwood's focus. This college is one of the top online universities for studying criminal justice and computers.
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Ashford University Ashford University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. Founded in 1918, Ashford University is affordable and convenient, as you can balance your current job with online coursework and finish your degree in as few as 12 months.
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Everest University Everest University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. Everest University is one of the best online experiences for working adults, as they offer financial aid to qualified individuals, flexible classes and most courses can be completed within nine months. Everest also offers credits for previous courses and a staff that is trained in career placement for your job options after graduation.
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Boston University Boston University — Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees. Founded in 1839, Boston University has been offering degree programs online for the past few years. Courses of study offered online include music education, business project management, banking, marketing, IT, art education, occupational therapy, health communication, criminal justice, and more.
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Liberty University Liberty University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. Founded in 1971, Liberty is the largest and fastest-growing evangelical Christian university in the United States.
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Capella University Capella University — Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees. If job placement statistics and scholarship packages appeal to you, then you might want to learn more about Capella University. Working students who seek affordable career advancement might enjoy Capella's variety of degree programs and flexible classes.
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DeVry University DeVry University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. DeVry University offers a career-oriented high quality online education to working professionals. Founded in 1931 as DeForest Training School, DeVry University has approximately 100 campuses across North American and offers degrees in liberal arts, business, science, technology, and more.
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Strayer University Strayer University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. If you want the quality of education that is reserved for veterans and members of the selective service and their dependents, then look closer at Strayer. This accredited university is a member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) and participates in associate and bachelor's degree programs for active duty military personnel.
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American InterContinental University American InterContinental University — Associate's, Bachelor's, and Master's Degrees. This multi-campus- and online-based university is devoted on helping students learn real-life skills and earn degrees that will help advance their careers.
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Grand Canyon University Grand Canyon University — Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. GCU represents one of the nation's fastest growing on line Christian universities. Enjoy top-rated classroom technology as you earn a highly-ranked education in one of their many degree programs.
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Argosy University Argosy University — Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees. Offering online degree programs in business, education, and psychology, Argosy University was founded in 2001 with the professional in mind. Based in Chicago, Argosy has over a dozen campus locations throughout the United States in addition to their online presence.
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More on Law & Legal Programs

Admission to law school is very competitive, so it makes sense to try to get into the best law school possible. Where do you find the best law schools? Try the list below, a mix that rates law schools by a wider variety of factors than most any other specialty. You can find law schools by standard ratings such as LSAT scores and salaries, or find schools by the best teachers and more in the list provided below. This list does not include publications such as The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools or Barron's Guide to Law Schools. You probably can find those publications at your local library.

The Princeton Review Law School Rankings 2009

Methodology: The Princeton Review surveyed more than 18,000 students at 174 law schools, in addition to collecting data from school administrators, to create 11 ranking lists. In order for a school to appear on their ranking lists and receive "Students Say" text, it must meet their criteria for academic excellence and allow them to conduct surveys of its students. They attempted to collect student opinions and statistical data from all law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). They wrote "Students Say" profiles for all schools from which they collected student opinions. This survey was conducted during the 2007-2008, 2006-2007 or 2005-2006 academic years via their website and on paper. The vast majority of the surveys upon which the rankings in this edition are based came to them online.

U.S. News Guide to Law Schools 2009

Methodology: More than 18,000 students at 174 law schools, in addition to collecting data from school administrators, contributed to create 11 ranking lists. The information gathered had to meet U.S. News' criteria for academic excellence and each school had to allow U.S. News to survey its students. Student opinons and statistical data from all law schools approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) were used. This survey was conducted during the 2007-2008, 2006-2007 or 2005-2006 academic years via their Web site and on paper. The vast majority of the surveys upon which the rankings in this edition are based came to them online. These specialty rankings are based solely on votes by legal educators who nominated up to 15 schools in each field.

Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings 2008

Methodology: Brian Leiter, John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago, has expanded and completely redesigned this site to provide aw school rankings for prospective, current, and former law students; law school faculty and administrators; and practicing lawyers in law firms, government, and public interest organizations. Rankings are varied, including student rankings gauged by LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs and faculty rankings measured by reputation, productivity and impact.

Judging the Law Schools: Thomas E. Brennan's Law School Rankings 2008

Methodology: All raw data used in Judging the Law Schools came from the 1994 Review of Legal Education in the United States, published by the American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions. Fifty categories were developed based on the type of data collected and reported by the ABA to rank law schools. Some of the categories are straight numerical computations. Other categories are calculations Judge Brennan thought to be significant ratios. The law schools were ranked according to the results.

The Consus Group: Composite Law School Rankings 2007

Methodology: The Consus Group (TCG) used published rankings (which account for 50 percent of the total score), selectivity based upon applicants admitted, LSAT scores and GPAs, salary, placement and yield to determine their law school rankings. According to Consus, "while many law school rankings fluctuate wildly from year to year, TCG’s comprehensive methodology produces a stable, accurate picture of America’s best law schools."

PhDs.org Law Rankings

Methodology: Data collected from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), National Research Council (NRC), Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) and Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (GSPD) for this list of master's and doctoral law programs. Unlike other ranking systems, PhDs.org does not use a fixed set of criteria and weights for computing rankings. Instead, you choose a set of criteria of interest and indicate how important each criterion is to you. They then use your weights to rank a set of programs according to your priorities. Data was collected by The National Science Foundation, the National Research Council, and the Department of Education.

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