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A new collaboration between edX, Arizona State University and MIT has resulted in an online master's degree program in Supply Chain Management that stacks credits from both universities.
MIT is allowing students to take rigorous courses in data, economics and development policy online for credit, and if they perform well on exams, to enroll in a master's degree program on campus.
The online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management from ASU will launch in January 2020. The program is open only to students who have completed the MITx MicroMasters program credential from the ...
MIT's micromasters programs are open to anyone who wants to enroll with no application process. Students in the program complete a set of graduate-level courses and then take a virtually-proctored ...
MIT’s Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) master’s offers an affordable, flexible path for aspiring economists.
The first of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s half online, half in-person master’s degree programs is making a profit and bringing dozens of new degree-seeking students to campus. The ...
The University of Illinois has an online master's degree in business using a similar model. MIT and Harvard were seen as pioneers in 2011 when they created edX, a provider of free online classes.
A master's degree, especially from an elite university, can be expensive. But a several universities are trying an experiment online to see if that cost, for some degrees, can come down.
MIT took a major step toward increasing public access to its resources online six years ago, with the creation of OpenCourseWare, an effort to place all the university’s course materials on the ...