  {"id":3565,"date":"2025-08-22T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/?page_id=3565"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:56:19","slug":"quickfacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/quickfacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Facts about MTSU Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Updated October 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default\">\n<li style=\"border-radius:0px;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><strong>57%<\/strong> of MTSU students took at least one online course in Fall 2025. This was <strong>over 12,000<\/strong> students.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MTSU has <strong>83 <\/strong>fully online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/programs\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2697\">degrees, concentrations, and certificate programs<\/a>. We had 24 programs in 2019.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MTSU has <strong>over 3000 <\/strong>fully online students in Fall 2025, which is over <strong>14%<\/strong> of the total student headcount.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>29%<\/strong> of all MTSU student credit hours (SCH) in Fall 2025 are from online courses.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>28%<\/strong> of all Fall 2025 <strong>undergraduate <\/strong>SCH, and <strong>47%<\/strong> of all <strong>graduate <\/strong>SCH were from online.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Online enrollment (student credit hours) is at an all-time high and has increased for several consecutive years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MTSU Online supports <strong>28 FTTs<\/strong> (full-time temporary faculty) in <strong>18 <\/strong>academic departments who focus on high-quality online teaching.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MTSU employs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/staff\/\">four full-time instructional designers<\/a> who  train and coach our faculty on effective teaching and technology use to make sure our students are receiving high-quality online instruction.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">MTSU Online supports many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/online-faculty-support\/\">faculty services,<\/a>&nbsp;incl<\/span>uding&nbsp;faculty development and training workshops,&nbsp;and&nbsp;peer mentoring,&nbsp;to make our online courses highly effective.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MTSU Online courses feature engaging interaction with our faculty, which is known to increase student retention and degree completion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MTSU Online supports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/student-resources\/\">key student services<\/a> for online students, such as counseling services, 24\/7 live subject tutoring, library services, and writing center tutors, all of which are significant contributors to student retention and degree completion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-1024x581.png\" alt=\"Fully Online Degrees and Concentrations by Year and Student Level: 2017 to 2025 \" class=\"wp-image-3852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-1536x871.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/10\/programs-2048x1162.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updated October 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3565\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}