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December 04, 2007, 01:01 PM ET
2-Year Colleges Are Leading the Distance-Education Boom
As the growth of online-education enrollments continues, most of the increases are found in two-year institutions, according to a new report released by the Sloan Consortium.
Two-year associate-degree institutions not only had the highest annual growth rate at 24 percent, but they also accounted for half of the online enrollments for the past five years, the report says. Baccalaureate-awarding institutions, on the other hand, had the lowest online enrollments and the smallest annual growth rate, at 6.9 percent.
Over all, online-education enrollments continue to grow faster than traditional enrollments, the report states, although at a slower rate than in previous years.
The survey of more than 2,500 colleges and universities was conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group, of Babson College. A PDF version of the report, called “Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning,” can be found online. —Dan Carnevale
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