We believe in complete transparency about our business model.
ComputerDegreesOnline.com (CDO) generates revenue through advertising partnerships with universities, colleges, and educational programs featured on our platform.
How It Works:
- Clearly Marked Advertisements: We use terms like “Advertisement,” “Ad,” “Sponsored,” or “About Our Partners” to ensure users can easily distinguish editorial content from paid placements.
- User Interactions: When users interact with advertisements or make school selections through our program search tool, we may receive compensation from partner institutions.
- Affiliate Partnerships: We work with affiliate partners and media companies related to education services.
Critical Editorial Independence:
Our revenue relationships do not influence our rankings, guides, or editorial content:
- Organizational Separation: Our research team operates independently from our business development team.
- Methodology-Based Rankings: Rankings are determined solely by data from IPEDS, NCES, university websites, and our established 20-component methodology.
- No Pay-for-Placement: Schools cannot pay for higher rankings. All evaluations are based exclusively on objective data and published criteria.
Why This Model:
This approach allows us to provide free, comprehensive resources to students while sustaining the dedicated research and content creation that makes our platform valuable. Students pay nothing to access our rankings, guides, scholarship databases, or career resources.
Transparency Commitment:
You can learn more about our editorial practices and business model on our Editorial Values and Practices page. We clearly disclose commercial relationships and maintain a firewall between advertising and editorial functions.