{"id":6247,"date":"2015-11-09T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/muonline\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2015-11-09T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:19:07","slug":"marshall-university-ranked-for-exceptional-online-education-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/2015\/11\/09\/marshall-university-ranked-for-exceptional-online-education-in-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University ranked for exceptional online education in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordablecollegesonline.org\/online-colleges\/west-virginia\/\">AffordableCollegesOnline.org (AC Online)<\/a>, a leading resource for online learning and college affordability information, has released its ranking for the 2015-2016 Best Online Colleges for West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study by the Babson Survey Research Group, the online student population in the country is now over 7 million. Over seven percent of students in West Virginia are enrolled exclusively in distance learning courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to highlight the schools in each state that are driving innovative learning and meeting demands of students,\u201d said Dan Schuessler, CEO and Founder of AC Online. \u201cThese schools are not only offering great programs, but they have expanded their program excellence to the much-desired online environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ranked schools meet a number of criteria and metrics, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Must offer a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher<br \/>\n\u2013 Must be a public or private, not-for-profit institution<br \/>\n\u2013 Must offer at least one fully-online bachelor\u2019s degree program<\/p>\n<p>Affordable Colleges Online has distinguished its ranking scale by the use of Peer-Based Value, or PBV. The PBV score compares the cost of each program to the cost of similar programs with the same qualitative score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AffordableCollegesOnline.org (AC Online), a leading resource for online learning and college affordability information, has released its ranking for the 2015-2016 Best Online Colleges for West Virginia. According to a recent study by the Babson Survey Research Group, the online student population in the country is now over 7 million. Over seven percent of students in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homenews"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/design-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}