Going to class these days often means signing in from a home computer. See which colleges have gone into online education in a big way, and what some of the uncertainties are.
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Many public and private nonprofit institutions have joined their for-profit counterparts to offer exclusively online degrees.
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In the fall of 2017, more than two-thirds of undergraduates were not enrolled in any distance-education courses at all.
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Colleges with high shares of online students tended to take in far more in tuition and fees than they spent on instruction.
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Fewer students are enrolling in massive open online courses at two major universities, and the percentage that continued the next year dropped, too.
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Nearly 40 percent of massive open online courses were in technology or business.
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Nearly six times as many undergraduate students reported taking courses both online and in person than reported studying exclusively online.