prestigious universities that offer distance programs?

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<p>Anyone know any top tier universities that offer such option?</p>

<p>The area that I work in does not have any universities that I want to attend, but I also want to attend a good university for my Master's. </p>

<p>Please post any universities that offer distance programs (at this point, I don't want to specify my field... so trying to get an exhaustive list)</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>MIT offers the SDM experience through a 2-year distance option.</p>

<p>[SDM</a> Program at MIT - DISTANCE EXPERIENCE](<a href=“http://sdm.mit.edu/distance_experience.html]SDM”>http://sdm.mit.edu/distance_experience.html)</p>

<p>Stanford offers the chance to earn engineering graduate degrees, up to the PhD level depending on the discipline, purely through distance learning.</p>

<p>[Stanford</a> offering distance learning | Oakland Tribune | Find Articles at BNET](<a href=“http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20061123/ai_n16879077/]Stanford”>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20061123/ai_n16879077/)</p>

<p>[Honors</a> Cooperative Program](<a href=“http://gradadmissions.stanford.edu/honors.html]Honors”>http://gradadmissions.stanford.edu/honors.html)</p>

<p>It should also be noted that many, probably most PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences can effectively become “distance” programs upon reaching the dissertation stage, as you can theoretically write your dissertation from anywhere in the world. True, you obviously won’t have close contact with the faculty so you’ll probably take longer to graduate. And you should still show up every once in awhile, if for no other reason, for political face-showing purposes. But technically speaking, you don’t really have to be around much. For example, I can think of numerous Harvard PhD students who haven’t lived in Boston since 2008 if not before - present domiciles include such diverse locales as New York, London, Seattle, San Francisco, and New Haven (living with her husband who’s a professor at Yale).</p>

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<p>that stanford program looks so good but my employer is not part of the program :frowning:
as for MIT, I don’t stand a chance of getting in.</p>

<p>any others?</p>

<p>these schools are top of the top… I also would like to know about other schools in the top 30. Not just the Ivies, Stanford and MIT</p>

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<p>Since you didn’t specify your field, I will just assume it is the same as mine. Johns Hopkins has a distance Masters of Public Health degree. [Master</a> of Public Health - MPH - at Johns Hopkins SPH](<a href=“Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health”>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)</p>

<p>Also, Loma Linda University in California offers an internet based MPH. Also UIUC, Emory, Tulane, UMass, Michigan, Minnesota, UNC, University of Washington and South Carolina.</p>

<p>If public health isn’t your intended field then maybe you would want to post that info.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/online-degrees/382153-top-graduate-schools-offer-distance-learning.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/online-degrees/382153-top-graduate-schools-offer-distance-learning.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>These are top engineering schools that offer distance learning. I made that post a while ago, seems like MIT, Cornell should be part of that list this year too.</p>