Data Sources and Verification

Universities' own pages

Program facts — awarded degree, major, online pathway, physical attendance, labs, research requirements, credits, length, admissions, tests, deadlines, tuition, fees and funding — come from each university's own program, catalog, online-learning, graduate school, admissions, bursar and funding pages, on the university's own domains. Each fact is stored with its URL and a verbatim quote. Before publication a script re-fetches the page and searches for the quote; when it is not found, the fact is not shown. Program profiles show the source for each fact and the date it was last verified (current range 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-12). The directory currently shows 1,913 verified fact groups across its programs.

A university's general list of online programs is used to find candidates, never as proof: a degree is listed as online only when the degree's own official page or catalog entry says so.

ABET's accredited-program database

Program accreditation comes from ABET's public accredited-program search (amspub.abet.org), downloaded 12 October 2026: institution, program name, degree, commission (EAC, ETAC, CAC), accreditation dates, next comprehensive review, the campuses ABET lists and ABET's distance-delivery characteristic. Each record is matched to a listed program by institution, program title and degree level; nothing else creates an accreditation label. ABET accredits programs, not universities, and it does not accredit doctoral programs.

IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education)

Official institution names, addresses, control (public or private) and counts of engineering degrees awarded (2023–24 completions under CIP family 14) come from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), published by the National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS data on programs that can be completed at a distance was used to find candidate schools; a school is listed only after its programs are verified on its own pages.

DAPIP

Institutional accreditation comes from the Department of Education's Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP): accreditor, status and record. Institutional accreditation is not a ranking and is not the same as ABET program accreditation.

Logos and campus photographs

School logos and campus photographs come from Wikimedia Commons through Wikidata, matched by the school's IPEDS identifier (never by name). Each image keeps its author, license and source, listed on the image credits page. A campus photograph appears only with the school it depicts; where no suitable image exists, a neutral placeholder is shown.

Licensure information

Licensure statements are shown exactly as the university publishes them. We do not determine licensure eligibility ourselves. State engineering boards set and change requirements; NCEES administers the FE and PE exams. Confirm with the board in the state where you plan to be licensed.

What we do not use

Other directories, ranking sites, lead-generation sites, forums, Wikipedia or news articles are never used as sources for program facts. Pages behind bot protection are not bypassed; the gap is recorded instead.

Freshness and corrections

Tuition and deadlines are tied to their academic year and intake. Records whose deadlines have passed or whose tuition year has ended are flagged for re-verification; old dates are never rolled forward. If you find an error, suggest an update with an official source.