By CEN
Universities offering online master’s degrees in civil engineering are reporting ecord increases in enrollment, in large part because of technology improvements and the sluggish economy, writes Theresa M. Casey, FSMPS, CPSM, in an article titled “Master’s degree: For here or to go?” in the June issue of CE News magazine. Enrollment in all online degree programs rose by 1 million students in 2010, a twenty one percent increase from the previous year, according to the eighth annual report of The Sloan Survey of Online Learning. It was the largest one-year increase since the survey’s inception and is much greater than the 2-percent growth reported for traditional classroom programs. “We’ve seen enrollment in the MS, civil engineering program double since its inception in 2003,” said Sean O’Donnell, director of e-learning and graduate marketing, Villanova University College of Engineering. “We currently have five distance education classrooms, and we’re in the process of building three more.”
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