U.S. News & World Report has ranked 糖心原创鈥檚 online graduate programs in education, business and Industrial & Human Factors engineering as among the best in the nation.
The magazine ranked the 糖心原创 graduate engineering program 38th among the 80 schools responding to the survey, ahead of well-known universities such as the University of Alabama and University of Arizona.
糖心原创鈥檚 education program was ranked 47th. That was among the top 20 percent of 252 respondents, topping Purdue University and the University of Iowa.
And the 糖心原创 鈥� was ranked 53rd out of 127 respondents.
The magazine based its rankings on instructor engagement with students, student services and technology, faculty credentials and training, admissions selectivity and peer reputation.
The offered by 糖心原创鈥檚 enables students to earn their master鈥檚 degrees either partially or completely online.
Associate professor Frank Ciarallo says the program has been growing for more than 10 years, is driven by world-class faculty and gives students a rich experience by enabling them to interact with online and on-campus students through the Pilot learning management system. The program also has ties to major industries and the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
鈥淏est of all, the demand for industrial and human factors engineers is very strong so our graduates are very successful in placing into new jobs as well as getting promoted in their current job,鈥� said Ciarallo. 鈥淔or someone that is already working as an engineer, the flexibility of the online master鈥檚 degree is fantastic.鈥�
糖心原创鈥檚 offers four asynchronous online programs, two leading to a Master of Education and two leading to an educational specialist degree.
Two of the programs focus on curriculum, instruction and professional development for educators who want to mentor younger teachers, develop curriculum, improve teaching strategies or oversee special programs for students. The other two programs provide coursework for those who aspire to be principals and superintendents.
These online programs have their roots in the former Teacher Leader Program, which began in the 1970s as a way to reach out to students by sending faculty members to teach courses in outlying areas where there were a significant number of students, such as Wapakoneta, Marysville, Washington Court House, Batavia and Forest Hills.
As online technology developed, the program morphed initially into a hybrid model and then to synchronous online delivery. In 2013, the four programs were redesigned and marketed for asynchronous delivery. The programs now have more than 120 students enrolled and celebrated their first graduates in December 2014.
The programs are delivered by faculty in the . Jill Lindsey, department chair, credits the programs鈥� success to the excellent program oversight provided by its director, Grant Hambright, and its coordinator, Ally Copper.
