Online College Rankings 2010: Rankings by Scholarly Citations
For over a century, mainstream colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning have been evaluated and judged based on the quantity and quality of the research and scholarly reports they publish and put out. The amount of scholarly citation from other scholars is a recognized indicator of the caliber of a higher education institution's academic work. The truth of the matter is that a college is only as good as its students and faculty. The scholarly citation figures listed below were generated using Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/). This tool provides an excellent way to search for scholarly literature, which is a useful proxy for the number of scholarly citations a college receives.
Each figure listed in the "Scholarly Citations" column below is the approximate number of results that Google Scholar returned when performing a search a particular college's name (within quotation marks.)
For more information regarding these rankings, we invite you to consult the in-depth documentation on our ranking methodology. Disclaimer: Many online colleges are not included in above rankings due to lack of publicly available data.
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