Elite Private Universities Get Serious About Distance Learning

"Niche-oriented" programs focus on specialized degrees, professional schools, and international links

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Each time the Johns Hopkins University offers the"Business of Medicine" certificate program on its medical campus in East Baltimore, the classes are oversubscribed. Some doctors living two states away drive in for the master's-level...

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