In the United States in the university courses online registration for last year exceeded the overall growth in higher education, and officials when good jobs are scarce and the economic slowdown started in a steadily increasing enrollment in line prediction, this according to a report published this Months.

Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008, published by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American college students that 22 percent of the fall semester of 2007, 3.94 million students, or at least had said that a Web-based class . After the fall semester of 2006 with an increase of 12.9 percent. In the same period, according to the report, only 1.2 percent of the total higher education enrollment, officials of more than 2,500 colleges and universities surveyed.
The annual report also examined concentrations and large, most of online education. The engineering discipline, where students online, according to the report, the ratio of sauce in a dramatic,. Associate degree institutions, the areas of psychology, liberal arts and social sciences in the line entry in a "great leader" is.