Infographic: Who Is the Online Student?

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Who is the online student? According to OnlineDegrees.org, the online student falls into two categories: for-profit and non-profit institutions. These students are typically over the age of 35 earning less than $15k to $40k a year. Learn more:

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Karen Falgore /

Nice bit of information. Kind of difficult to read the small print, however. I think it is interesting that the biggest different between those pursuing online degrees are income, number of children, and whether or not they had parents who went to college.

Otherwise, they are pretty similar in every other demographic.