November 12, 2008
Universities See Double-Digit Increase in Online Enrollment, Study Finds
Online enrollment at universities nationwide increased more than 12 percent in 2007 over the previous year, and the majority of college officials agree that competition for online students is increasing, according to the 2008 Sloan Survey of Online Learning.
According to the report, which included responses from more than 2,500 colleges, approximately 3.94-million students, a little more than 20 percent of the total student population in higher education, enrolled in at least one online course in the fall of 2007. Nearly 70 percent of the institutions surveyed acknowledged that they are competing for online students.
The worsening economy was one reason given for the increase in online enrollment.
“In these tough economic times, with unemployment up and higher costs for heating and transportation, we will inevitably see the appeal of online education grow,” Frank Mayadas, program director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, said in a news release.
The survey was conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group, the College Board, and the Sloan Consortium.—David DeBolt
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This Perfect Stom impoding “dream of Milton Friedman” economy is going to wipe out Harvard not only endowment but repute as people trace back the morons who impoded everything and find their leaders all were Harvard MBA professors—Harvard owns this global implosion lock stock and the barrel goes to U of Chicago and Milt babes. SO, the rise of eColleges is divine justice for a dozen generations of vile greedy morons generated by our “best” colleges by the likes of Harvard (and the fawning groveling little professors from all over who worship there).
— Richard Tabor Greene Nov 13, 08:05 AM #
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— Brian C. Steinberg Nov 13, 09:37 AM #
Richard:
Huh. Huh?
— Jim #2 Nov 13, 10:09 AM #
Maybe you should learn to spell before commenting on higher education.
— Stephen Nov 13, 12:25 PM #
Re #1.
Boy, how would you like to try and diagram that sentence?
— EJB Nov 13, 02:09 PM #