Benchmarks of Online Higher Education compare public and private institutions in higher online education. It shows that students are learning more towards studying business online, which what is mostly offered by institutions in the undergraduate field of study. However, institutions lean towards education field for the graduate field of study while students still tend to study business. There is a big gap in computer science and institutions should focus on offering more courses online. In 22% of the cases, tuition for online courses is lower than on ground while in 15% it is actually higher. There are both, achievements and challenges to online education and online enrollment trends are on mostly the rise, especially in undergraduate studies. It is also interesting to note that majority of entities in American Association of Colleges and Universities offer five or more online programs while most of the Council and Independent Colleges do not fully offer any online programs.