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This ranking scores 11 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Online English programs ranked by outcomes, value, and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
Graduation Rates
Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
Arizona State University Digital Immersion
Scottsdale, AZ
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University of Florida-Online
Gainesville, FL
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Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
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Arizona State University Digital Immersion
Scottsdale, AZ · 53,782 students · Public
University of Florida-Online
Gainesville, FL · 4,627 students · Public
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT · 155,088 students · Private nonprofit
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide
Daytona Beach, FL · 9,139 students · Private nonprofit
University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies Online
Manchester, NH · 1,157 students · Public
University of Arkansas Grantham
LIttle Rock, AR · 2,833 students · Public
University of Maryland Global Campus
Adelphi, MD · 49,664 students · Public
Touro University Worldwide
Los Alamitos, CA · 454 students · Private nonprofit
Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education
Kirkland, WA · 405 students · Private nonprofit
Los Angeles Pacific University
San Dimas, CA · 1,483 students · Private nonprofit
University of the People
Pasadena, CA · 22,688 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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