17. University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It’s the flagship of the University of the North Carolina system and is considered a Public Ivy, or a public institution, which offers an academic experience equivalent to an Ivy League university. It was chartered way back in 1789 and began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of three schools that can claim to be the oldest public university in the United States.

It offers several types of distance learning opportunities. Carolina Courses Online (CCO) are blended or completely online courses on a semester schedule, while Self-Paced Courses (SPC) are offered online or as correspondence and can take up to nine months to complete – and the graduate degree programs and professional certificates are either entirely online or in a blended format.

Another option is the UNC Online Exchange, in which UNC students can take online courses through other schools in the University of North Carolina system for the same tuition price.

Graduation rate: 89%