Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Eleven universities in the United States and Britain have joined together to create and sell online graduate courses, forming one of the more extensive international distance-learning partnerships.

When Katrina McChesney received an email from an Australian university she had “never heard of” about free research master’s and doctoral degrees for Antipodean citizens, she assumed it was a scam. At ...

The UGC has officially recognized 101 universities and 20 Category-1 institutions for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and 113 for online courses for the 2025-26 academic year. Most universities no ...