Online MSCIS, MSADA, and MSSD Programs Ranked in Top Ten by U.S. News & World Report
This January, U.S. News & World Report ranked MET’s online MS in Computer Information Systems, MS in Applied Data Analytics, and MS in Software Development #10 among the nation’s Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Programs. This year, 62 schools were ranked, an increase in competition of 7% from last year. We slipped from #8 but stayed in the top ten, competing against powerhouses such as University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Tech, New York University, and University of Arizona. With fierce competition in IT, the rankings are more volatile. This year, four new institutions entered the top ten while several strong universities lost ground.
It is important to note that in the business and IT categories BU MET and Pennsylvania State–World Campus are the only continuing education schools in the top ten group. Competition continues to escalate in the area of greatest growth and demand within higher education, that of part-time, online graduate programs.
The U.S. News rankings methodology measures several factors for their rankings, which happen to align with MET initiatives to focus on and enhance student and faculty success, including: student engagement, faculty credentials and training, student services and technology, peer reputation, and admissions selectivity.
We are proud to enter a new decade representing the pinnacle of professional graduate online education. Having been ranked highly for the past seven years, we can firmly assert the consistency of our quality among a growing roster of competitors. Please join me in thanking and congratulating those who make this possible: our outstanding students, faculty, facilitators, instructional designers, student support administrators, technologists, and department administrators.