When the College of Business launched its MBA Without Boundaries program in mid-March, Newsweek magazine took notice. In its March 10 issue, the 3.3-million circulation newsweekly highlighted OU's "virtual" degree in a story on Internet-based academic programs.

Twenty-nine executives from five states arrived on the Athens campus for a week of orientation in mid-March as the first class of the online two-year degree program, which will rely on collaborative software, e-mail and the World Wide Web to communicate and complete course assignments.

"Duke is one of several schools, including Ohio University and Purdue, that have recently launched Internet-based MBA programs for far-flung execs," Newsweek reporters Kendall Hamilton and Susan Miller wrote.

Newsweek also featured the MBA Without Boundaries program in its annual "How to Get Into Graduate School" guide, published this spring.

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