About.com has a nice collection of links to free online courses.

Check it out here.

They also rank the ten best inexpensive e-degrees, if you're willing to fork out the money for courses. Most of these are through traditional universities.

You can also find a large number of online universities listed here in the columns. If you click the links they will take you to the university sites where you'll be able to order a prospectus package for free.

Here's an About.com article on if you should even take what most ranking surveys say seriously or not. It mainly depends on what you're looking for, and if you can cut through some of the unscientific nature of these rankings you'll be better off.

It all started in 1990 with U.S. News & World Report's first ranking of U.S. colleges and universities. The issue generated huge sales. U.S. News had created its own "swimsuit edition." Soon a whole new industry was spawned. Money Magazine, Time, Newsweek, World Report, and Mother Joneshave now published rankings.

As the number of college and university rankings increase, so does the debate about their importance and validity. Many academics feel that the rankings are "misleading and dangerous," and that they do not mean much. Here are some of their concerns:

Following on that, Forbes Magazine ranks the top 20 cyberschools here. What you can do is take some of these ranking lists and compare them to others, especially of those you're narrowing down as your choice of school. Once again, most of these are traditional accredited universities with online programs. Here are ten more online universities 'to watch'.