Indiana University East was recently ranked in the top 15 as a Best Online Colleges in Indiana by Accredited Schools Online.

Accredited Schools Online is a leading resource for online learning and college accreditation information. According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, over 400,000 Indiana students are enrolled in at least one distance learning course.

To determine the rankings, Accredited Schools Online developed a proprietary scoring system to rank colleges based on various cost-to-quality criteria and metrics including the number of online degree programs available, student to faculty ratio, loan default rate, job placement and career counseling for graduates, online tuition rate and six-year graduation rate. Accredited Schools Online has distinguished its ranking scale by the use of Peer-Based Value (PBV). The PBV score compares the cost of each program to the cost of similar programs with the same qualitative score.

Schools must also offer a bachelor’s degree or higher, offer at least one fully online bachelor’s degree program and be a public or private, not-for-profit institution.

Indiana University East has an enrollment of over 4,100 students. The campus is both a traditional campus that excels in innovative learning options and a virtual campus with select online degree completion programs.

IU East’s online degree programs offer the high quality of an Indiana University degree to students throughout Indiana, nationally and internationally. IU East offers 11 options for students to complete their bachelor’s degree online in English with an emphasis in Technical and Professional Writing, Mathematics, Natural Science and Mathematics with a Mathematics Concentration, Communication Studies, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Psychology, General Studies, and an RN to BSN Mobility Option. IU East also offers a Graduate Certificate in Composition Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Mathematics.