tar colleges, not all online degree programs are created equal. U.S. News aims to help students evaluate their options with the 2013 Best Online Education Programs rankings. U.S. News evaluated 237 online bachelor's degree programs, as well as online master's degree programs in business (213), education (208), nursing (101), engineering (70), and computer information technology, or CIT (30).Only degree-granting programs offering courses that are 100 percent online were considered for the rankings. These programs were assigned an overall numerical rank based on the following factors: student engagement, faculty credentials and training, and students services and technology. Admissions selectivity also factored into the rankings for all online master's degree programs, and academic peer reputation was included in the calculations for engineering and business program rankings.[See how the Best Online Programs rankings were calculated.]While the U.S. News rankings evaluate online programs, many of the top-performing schools have physical campuses and proximity to campus is an important factor for students, according to a July 2012 report by Learning House. The online education company surveyed 1,500 students who had either enrolled or planned to enroll in a fully online degree program.Roughly 80 percent of online students live within 100 miles of their school's campus or learning center, and the vast majority of those students live within 50 miles, according to the Learning House report. This proximity can help students overcome one of their main complaints of online programs: lack of face-to-face time with instructors.Pace University, which has a physical campus in New York City, claimed the No. 1 spot for online bachelor's degree programs. Top-performing online master's degree programs include Washington State University (business), University of Southern California (engineering and CIT),lululemon outlet, St. John's University in New York (education), and Ferris State University in Michigan (nursing).Creating the 2013 Best Online Business Programs rankings required two steps. Step one was compiling a list of business schools offering master's degree programs online. Step two was collecting data from these schools.To complete step one, U.S. News World Report sent statistical questionnaires to 959 regionally accredited institutions that granted a master's degree in business, including public, private, and for-profit institutions. Respondents were asked to identify whether in academic year 2012-2013 they would be offering a master's in business/MBA program through Internet-based distance education courses.U.S. News defines a distance education program as follows (along the same lines as the U.S. Department of Education's definition):A program for which all the required coursework for program completion is able to be completed via distance education courses that incorporate Internet-based learning technologies. Distance education courses are courses that deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and support regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously. Note: Requirements for coming to campus for orientation, testing or academic support services do not exclude a program from being classified as an online master's in business degree program. U.S. News made repeated attempts to survey institutions and determine whether they meet this new definition. Between the start of data collection in late July 2012 and the fall 2012 closing date, 628 institutions (65 percent) replied. Among them,lululemon online, 213 (34 percent) said they would be offering online master's degree business programs in accordance with the definition,lululemon sale, while the rest said they would not.To complete step two, U.S. News collected additional statistical information from the same questionnaire on the 213 schools with online programs, and this information was scored as outlined in the table below. (Note: All student and faculty statistical data are of July 1,cheap lululemon, 2011 - June 30, 2012 cohorts, while the remaining da
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