People who don’t believe that online colleges are flourishing should think again. Earning an online degree has become very popular. Of all the colleges and higher education schools in the United States, including both traditional universities and online colleges, the University of Phoenix was found to be the most popular with students. Pennsylvania State University came in second, with Ohio State University a close third.
PayScale.com recently conducted a survey of the most popular colleges in the United States. 819,147 individuals responded to the survey, naming the college they attended or were attending.
Here is a list of the 40 most popular colleges by number of survey responders:
University of Phoenix (UOP) 26,550
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) 10,401
Ohio State University (OSU) 9,068
Purdue University 8,668
Texas A&M University 8,533
University of Michigan 8,506
University of Washington (UW) 8,248
University of Minnesota 7,640
University of Florida (UF) 7,385
ITT Technical Institute 7,131
Arizona State University (ASU) 7,118
University of Maryland (UMD) 7,068
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 7,027
University of Houston (UH) 6,978
Michigan State University (MSU) 6,825
University of Southern California (USC) 6,605
Rutgers University 6,526
University of California, Berkeley 6,380
Devry University 6,262
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 6,028
New York University (NYU) 5,726
University of Texas (UT) – Austin 5,665
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) 5,587
San Diego State University (SDSU) 5,114
San Jose State University (SJSU) 4,922
University of Wisconsin (UW) – Madison 4,841
Florida State University (FSU) 4,838
Louisiana State University (LSU) 4,835
University of Central Florida (UCF) 4,792
Indiana University (IU), Bloomington 4,750
University of Texas (UT) 4,686
Boston University 4,668
University of Pittsburgh 4,601
Brigham Young University (BYU) 4,557
University of South Florida (USF) 4,388
University of Georgia (UGA) 4,327
Georgia Institute of Technology 4,372
Northeastern University 4,284
North Carolina State University (NCSU) 4,152
University of Cincinnati (UC) 4,061