Six Georgia Colleges Recognized by OnlineCollegePlan.com for Excellence in College Websites

Staff Report From Georgia CEO

Thursday, August 25th, 2016

Almost 7 million students, comprising 32% of all those enrolled in a higher ed institute, are enrolled in online schools. These numbers have only continued to grow, undoubtedly placing more pressure on schools to have exemplary on-screen campuses — made up of their platform, their resources, and even their social media presence. In this day and age, it takes a prospective student less than 30 seconds to size up a website; if a school doesn't have a good presentation, then it can easily fall off a student's list for good. OnlineCollegePlan.com understands this, and took to doing a lot of research for these students. http://www.onlinecollegeplan.com/

OnlineCollegePlan.com has published a college ranking titled "Top 50 Online Schools with the Best Websites" (http://www.onlinecollegeplan.com/online-schools-best-websites/), which walks the reader through 50 top schools that have mastered the art of having a clean and functional website that is also pleasing to eye. Navigation and functionality were the key criteria, but the design and information presented within the college websites were also considered in the rankings.

Research editor Mark Riley describes each website concisely and included screen grabs so you can get a sneak peek at the pages for yourself. The schools on the list are headquartered all across the country and some states even made the list multiple times.

Florida is represented in the list by Rasmussen College (#50), Florida State University (#37), Florida A&M University (#46), University of Central Florida (#34) and Florida Institute of Technology (#32).

South Carolina schools made the cut with three schools: Greenville Technical College (#42), University of South Carolina (#36) and Clemson University (#9).

Georgia is on the list six times with Kennesaw State University (#43), Georgia State University (#31), Emory University (#25), Georgia Institute of Technology (#10), Savannah College of Art and Design (#7) and University of Georgia (#2).

New York is also represented on the list with three schools: Rochester Institute of Technology (#28), New York Institute of Technology (#26) and Cornell University (#6).

California's schools with the best websites are: University of California, Berkeley (#35), University of California, Los Angeles (#24) and California Institute of Technology (#4).

Massachusetts schools that made the rankings are: University of Massachusetts Amherst (#40) and Boston University (#39),

The complete list ranked in descending order is as follows:

50. Rasmussen College (Maitland, FL)

49. Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)

48. Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO)

47. University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL)

46. Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, FL)

45. University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)

44. Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA)

43. Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, GA)

42. Greenville Technical College (Greenville, SC)

41. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

40. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)

39. Boston University (Boston, MA)

38. Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

37. Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

36. University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

35. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

34. University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)

33. Alabama State University (Montgomery, AL)

32. Florida Institute of Technology (Melbourne, FL)

31. Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

30. University of Illinois Springfield (Springfield, IL)

29. University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)

28. Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)

27. Regis University (Denver, CO)

26. New York Institute of Technology (New York, NY)

25. Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

24. University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

23. Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)

22. Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR)

21. Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA)

20. Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)

19. University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS)

18. Dakota State University (Madison, SD)

17. University of Memphis (Memphis, TN)

16. Lamar University (Beaumont, TX)

15. Brown University (Providence, RI)

14. East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)

13. University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)

12. Washington State University (Pullman, WA)

11. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

10. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)

9. Clemson University (Clemson, SC)

8. Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

7. Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA)

6. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)

5. Yale University (New Haven, CT)

4. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

3. University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND)

2. University of Georgia (Athens, GA)

1. Texas State University (San Marcos, TX)