Top Ten Online Colleges (2016) 

Global Academy Online publishes the best and worst online schools annually. The following include the top universities in the world with programs that permit students to attend via distance from anywhere in the world without setting foot on campus. The University of London, University of South Africa, Charles Sturt, University of Southern Queensland, and the University of Maryland can be counted on as being among the early innovators and promoters of online and distance education providers, assuring their online and distant education was, in every sense of the word, equal to or superior to their own and to their non-online/distant education counterparts at other universities throughout the world.

No longer counted as among the list of top ten are the University of Phoenix, the longtime #1 online university in America and the nation’s largest university in America - a perennial top five school internationally and Jones International University. Jones chose in 2014 to close its doors following the death of its founder, the online education pioneer Glenn Jones. Jones International was the first university ever accredited by one of the six regional accrediting agencies sanctioned by the US Department of Education as a university that exclusively offered only online degree programs. Since that time, the number of online-only universities exploded on the scene and the conversion and sanction of online degree programs offered by traditional universities in the world expanded at an exponential rate.

Dr. Fred DiUlus, known as the father of online ratings and rankings of colleges and universities is the author and editor. The 2016 edition of the Best and Worst Schools will be released on January 4, 2016. The eBook is free. The publication contains no advertising or sponsorship other than from Global Academy Online, international online/hybrid university builders.