March 29, 2002

Colleges Tailor Online Degrees for Individual Companies

By DAN CARNEVALE

Colleges and large corporations are starting to collaborate on the creation of online graduate-degree programs that meet specific needs of the companies. The programs are created from existing graduate degrees, but the course content is altered so that the students learn by working on real projects for their companies.

For example, Babson College, in Babson Park, Mass., started a master's-degree program in business administration for Intel workers in May. Oregon Health & Science

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