The incoming president of the University of Massachusetts, Marty Meehan, met Tuesday with Governor Charlie Baker for the first time since Meehan was chosen to lead the five-campus system. Both men stressed that online education will be a top priority.

Baker praised Meehan’s commitment to web-based learning as chancellor at the Lowell campus.

“One of the things that impressed me about UMass Lowell is that they’re doing $40 million a year worth of online education,” the governor said at a State House press conference.

Meehan said that 53 percent of the graduates last year at Lowell took at least one online course.

“Online provides an opportunity to provide access to people who work, people who are raising families and we need to expand that,” Meehan said.

Meehan, who begins his new position July 1, would not say if he thinks tuition or fee increases are necessary this year. But he did say academic programs need to have a business plan — and bring in revenue.