Online colleges or those that are meant to be distance education programs, are growing in popularity and have some key features that are making them develop at a fast pace. Firstly there are almost endless possible courses to choose from and almost everybody can afford an online course and study for their degree. Here are the top twenty such online colleges that offer distance education.

1. Western Governors University This University makes it to number one not only because of its tuition costs, but also because of its great reputation and it also offers several degrees for masters or bachelors to choose from. Business, Management, Educational training, Nursing are some of the degrees offered.

2. Capella University More than half of this online university’s students receive financial aid for their courses and students are also awarded points for a previous course that they might have worked on. The degrees are offered on Bachelors, Masters and also Doctorate levels. Humanities and Management are the most reputed courses here.

3. Walden University This online University can be considered the best in providing distance learning to working adults. They offer a wide array of Masters and Doctorate levels of courses to choose from, and it is also the rare online university which offers a bachelors degree in Business administration.

4. UMass Online This online program works under the University of Massachusetts. They too offer a wide range of all kinds of degrees. The courses to choose from range from Art, Business, Management, Criminal Justice, Science and much more.

5. Abilene Christian University This University is accepted by the Accrediting Commission of Distance Education and Training Council. This place has more than thirty years of experience with their online courses. They are best known for their masters and bachelor degrees that they offer in Psychology, Education and Business.

6. Ashford University This online university is dedicated to providing educational degrees to working adults or those people who have uncompleted degrees. The learning programs that they offer are easily accessible, financially affordable and also interesting and innovative. They help students build careers in emerging industries.

7. Northeastern University This is a Boston area University which meets the standards of top world class universities. They mainly offer Masters degree programs in Business, Computers, Information Technology and Healthcare like Nursing etc.

8.Southern New Hampshire University This online University has also received accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. They also offer enough financial aid to qualified students and offer degrees in Liberal Arts, Criminal justice, Business and Educational areas.

9. Bryant and Stratton College For over a hundred years this University has been helping students to learn and develop their careers in a concise and effective manner. Now they offer online Masters Degrees in Management degrees and Health fields and Science and Technology fields as well. The standard is still top of class.

10. Marylhurst University This University is accredited by the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities. This Oregon based University has been online education since the year 1996. Currently they offer Bachelors and Masters Degrees in business and health care.

11. Norwich University This University offers only online degrees in Masters Level. But the courses that they offer are all good and some are rare to find among online universities such as diplomacy, nursing management and even engineering.

12. Ellis University This is one of the fairly newer online Universities offering distance learning, but they are worth considering nevertheless. This university offers an exceptionally wide variety of programs and courses to choose from both at the undergraduate and Post graduate levels of learning.

13. University of Phoenix with this online University you can be fairly certain that you would find the definite course that you are looking for no matter how rare it might be to chance upon it, as this place offers an almost limitless number of courses, at all levels of learning; the associate, under graduate, post graduate and Doctoral levels.

14. Nova Southeastern University This place was one of the first accredited Universities to have offered online education and distance courses. However they offer only Master degrees in their online courses and only in four distinct areas of Education and Teaching.

15. Keller Graduate School of Management This is the University that offers the maximum number of online Management courses to choose from. Students get to choose from a wide variety of business studies and will normally always find the perfect course to suit them. This online university basically concentrates all its focus on offering business degrees.

16. Strayer University This is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The range of studies and areas of learning to choose from varies from General Studies, to technology and Education, and they offer degrees on all levels of learning.

17. American Intercontinental University This university has a lot of teaching experience of over thirty years with students on their campus and also online. The biggest strength of this online university is that students have an easy access to their tutors and instructors online. They offer associates, bachelors and Masters Degrees.

18. Baker Online This online University is financially most affordable and they charge less than half of the other online universities of its standards. They offer degrees on all levels of associates, bachelors and masters and they also offer some unusual Majors such as Web Development and others in Management.

19. National American University This University is one of the most easily accessible online Universities for local as well as National and Global students all throughout the day and the entire week, online. They offer high quality Masters Degrees in Communication, technology and Public Administration.

20. Golden Gate University This University was founded in 1901 in San Francisco and has now developed flexible online courses for their students. Taxation, Law and Business related areas are their strongest degrees that they offer.

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