Alabama Colleges with Most Online Enrollment

In Alabama, 58,541 students enrolled online exclusively, and the number of online students decreased by 1,576 from last year. The decline in the number of online students appears to be due to the end of the pandemic.

Columbia Southern University has the most online students of 15,948 (all online exclusively) among 21 Alabama colleges that offer online programs.

Troy University with 7,151 online students and University of Alabama at Birmingham with 5,984 online students are following it in The largest online Alabama Colleges ranking.

Columbia Southern University stays at first place of the largest online college ranking since last year. Troy University also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $21,542 and graduate tuition & fees is $19,311 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 78.88% and the average SAT score is 1,142 at the schools.

Table. The Largest Online Alabama Colleges Comparison
School NameOnline EnrollmentTotal PopulationUndergraduate EnrollmentGraduation EnrollmentMen EnrollmentWomen EnrollmentUndergraduate Tuition & Fees
1
-		Columbia Southern University Orange Beach, ALPrivate, 4-year 15,948
464		15,94811,3304,6189,9466,002$5,808
2
-		Troy University Troy, ALPublic, 4-year 7,151
314		14,15610,7683,3885,0989,058$19,584
($9,792)
3
-		University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, ALPublic, 4-year 5,984
476		21,63913,0328,6077,90313,736$21,864
($8,832)
4
-		The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, ALPublic, 4-year 5,820
266		38,64432,4586,18616,50622,138$33,200
($11,900)
5
-		University of West Alabama Livingston, ALPublic, 4-year 4,362
244		5,8602,4273,4331,4424,418$20,090
($10,990)
6
-		University of South Alabama Mobile, ALPublic, 4-year 3,953
147		13,4388,4804,9584,2849,154$18,652
($9,676)
7
-		University of North Alabama Florence, ALPublic, 4-year 3,346
41		9,8307,2142,6163,4906,340$22,190
($11,990)
8
-		Auburn University Auburn, ALPublic, 4-year 3,101
356		31,76425,3796,38515,67816,086$33,944
($12,536)
9
-		Jacksonville State University Jacksonville, ALPublic, 4-year 2,087
135		9,6328,3101,3223,8395,793$22,716
($12,426)
10
-		Athens State University Athens, ALPublic, 4-year 1,832
159		2,8942,5203748872,007$17,370
($9,840)
Average5,35816,38112,1924,1896,9079,473$21,542
($10,887)