Posted on 06/24/2010 6:20:30 AM PDT by bs9021
Onward Christian Schools Online
Deborah Lambert, June 24, 2010
In the highly competitive online environment where everyone is seeking to develop a niche market, Christian colleges appear to be gaining ground, according to Education News.
Schools like Grand Canyon University, forced to reinvent itself or go bankrupt a few years ago, went from 3,500 enrolled students in a traditional setting to 36,000 in its current online environment. And 90 percent of its students are “distance learners.”
Mid-Christian University recruited some brains behind the online giant University of Phoenix to develop an aggressive five-year strategy they hope will quadruple the size of the online student body. Meanwhile, Liberty University boasts 45,000 online students, nearly twice the number that the school’s founder Jerry Falwell Sr. projected a few years ago....
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