U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings, today published the 2026 Best Online Programs rankings.

Colleges will have to submit to the federal government new data on their distance education programs under a batch of new rules the Biden administration finalized Monday. The rules, which will take ...

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) last month proposed new guidelines to strengthen its oversight and data-gathering practices for distance education. According to a January proposal outlining ...

The summer of 2016 has been remarkable in the world of higher education regulation. On May 13, the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued a joint Dear Colleague letter ...

Title: Distance Education Policy Effective Date: June 1, 2024 Responsible Office: Office of the Provost Revision Date: April 23, 2025 This policy applies to William & Mary (W&M) as a whole university, ...

NYSED requirement: Colleges and universities located in or operating in New York State that offer degree or certificate programs in which a major portion (i.e., 50% or more) of the requirements can be ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

The Department of Education revisited proposed changes to asynchronous clock, credit-hour, and subscription-based programs in distance education. In previous years, the Department of Education’s final ...

LOWELL, Mass. – More than 13 of UMass Lowell’s online graduate and professional programs are once again among the best in the nation, according to 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings released this ...

The Education Department wants to collect much more information about distance education courses and the students enrolled in them as part of a broader effort to increase oversight of online programs.

Many aspects of our lives are becoming digitised, and one that offers a lot of advantages is education. As more tertiary education options become available online as distance options, education access ...