UT MARTIN RANKED FIRST FOR BEST ONLINE COLLEGES IN TENNESSEE
MARTIN, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee at Martin is ranked first among the 19 Best
Online Colleges in Tennessee for 2017 by College Choice. The full ranking is available online at
collegechoice.net/rankings/best-online- colleges-in- tennessee.
“Receiving recognition as the number-one online program in the state is a tribute to our faculty
and administration,” said Dr. Adam Wilson, director of UT Martin Online. “I am always deeply
appreciative of the efforts our faculty make to engage with students in our virtual classrooms,
and this ranking is further validation of their hard work.”
Other recent rankings received by UT Martin’s online program include 36 th nationally and top-
ranked in Tennessee by U.S. News & World Report’s “2017 Best Online MBA Programs”
category; 16 th by master-of- finance.org for Most Affordable Online MBA; and 17 th nationally for
the master’s in education with a major in counseling degree program by affordablecolleges.com.
The online master’s degree in education was recognized for affordability.
“Our faculty and administration strive to be very deliberate when developing courses and degree
programs for online students. These efforts to propel student success have not gone unnoticed as
evident by this national recognition,” said Wilson.
According to College Choice, the ranking was based on institutional excellence and student
success. Institutional excellence includes student test scores, graduation rate and student-to-
faculty ratio. The student success composite score includes tuition costs, average student
indebtedness after graduation, projected early career salary for graduates and the amount of
financial aid available. Sources for the data come from colleges’ websites, PayScale, and
nationally recognized U.S. News & World Report and The National Center for Education
Statistics.
In its description of UT Martin, College Choice noted UT Martin offers a variety of online-only
programs, as well as online classes available for all students. The ranking also mentioned UT
Martin’s transition of its distance-learning platform from Blackboard to Canvas in Spring 2017,
which enables students to access interactive course materials including PowerPoints, images,
lectures, movie clips, audio, graphs and charts.
For more information, contact UT Martin Online at 731-881- 7021 or visit utm.edu/onlinestudies.
