One well known hospital's education department is now offering a nursing degree program in conjunction with a centrally located medical school of nursing in the state of Maine.
Whether they like it or not, global universities are operating in a worldwide
marketplace. As a recent report on "borderless education" for the vice-chancellors
and the funding councils pointed out, an emerging corporate university in
the US is experiencing escalating growth in online distance learning. Private
educators and state-funded institutions across the world are being challenged
with aggressive competition because of the call for online business education.
Acknowledgments of success has been given by 239 employers surveyed in regards to the credibility of job candidates earning an online degree even though 61% of employers deem that online degrees are not as credible as their offline counterparts.
