07 January 2009

Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities

High response made Military Advanced Education and its parent company KMI Media Group double its list of "Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities" for 2008. (The list is now doubled, from 30 to 60 institutions.) Selections were made by an independent panel.

The magazine's "Top 20" also had to expand, to 22:

1. American Military University
2. American Sentinel University
3. Capella University
4. Central Texas College
5. Coastline Community College
6. Columbia College
7. Columbia Southern University
8. ECPI College of Technology
9. Excelsior College
10. Grantham University
11. Kaplan University
12. Park University College for Distance Learning
13. San Diego City College
14. Southern Illinois University Carbondale
15. State University of New York Maritime College
16. Strayer University
17. Thomas Edison State College
18. TUI University
19. University of Maryland University College
20. University of Oklahoma
21. University of Phoenix
22. Western Governors University

All 60 of the institutions recognized by Military Advanced Education are listed alphabetically in a special report.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a great list of schools - Hot thrilling is it that there are a number of DETC schools on this list? DETC is the gold standard of distance education accreditation, and this list is another example of the high quality of the DETC member's programs.

Great job DETC schools!!

Don Kassner
Andrew Jackson Univerity
(yes, another DETC school!)

Frank said...

Remember that the U.S. Department of Education views regionally and nationally accredited schools as equal. Regardless, Regionally Accredited schools have far more distance learning programs than Nationally Accredited schools. There many distance learning programs at Regionally Accredited schools that have professional accreditation as well. DETC may accredit schools that offer distance learning programs. However, that does not make DETC the gold standard accreditor of distance education.