Identifying the Online Student - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed The National Center for Education Statistics, on Monday released the clearest breakdown of students enrolled in distance education courses in the United States to date. The statistics themselves are not new, but the findings according to region, sector and state are. According to the IPEDS data, the actual number was about 5.5 million -- roughly one-quarter of the total enrollment. Among those 5.5 million students, about 2.6 million were enrolled in fully online programs -- the rest took some traditional courses, some online. Those numbers also highlight a split between undergraduates and graduate students. The share of graduate students enrolled in fully online programs was twice as high as the share of undergraduates -- 22 to 11 percent. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/03/us-releases-data-distance-education-enrollments#sthash.MC5Miruo.dpbs