Online Degree Tuition 2026

What the dataset covers

Each row carries the school, program, level, total program tuition in USD, a tuition note explaining the figure's basis, an estimate flag, accreditation status, format (100% online unless noted), the official source URL the figure was taken from, and the date it was last verified.

The dataset was built to power tuition comparison — including our own cheapest-online-degrees tool — and is published here so journalists, researchers and students can reuse the underlying numbers instead of trusting a ranking page.

What “estimate” means

439 of the 740 rows are flagged estimate: true. That does not mean guessed — it means computed, not quoted. Many U.S. universities publish per-credit-hour prices rather than program totals; for those rows the total is computed as per-credit price × required credits, and the tuition_note column explains the exact basis. Treat these rows as comparisons, not quotes.

Every row — estimated or quoted — links to the official page the figure came from, and the verified column records when it was last checked (2026-10-15 for this release). Tuition changes; the verification date tells you how fresh each number is.

Get the data

Free under CC-BY-4.0. Cite as: Study Intelligence (2026). Online Degree Tuition 2026. https://aclas.si/data/online-degree-tuition-2026

@dataset{studyintelligence2026tuition,
  author = {{Study Intelligence}},
  title = {Online Degree Tuition 2026},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Study Intelligence (aclas.si)},
  url = {https://aclas.si/data/online-degree-tuition-2026}
}