HBS Offers Online Classes for Non-Business Students

Harvard Business School will be giving liberal arts students or engineering majors who want to get educated on the corporate world a chance to benefit from the teaching from Harvard Business School this summer.

Harvard University is the latest school to offer an online business program for non-business majors. Harvard Business School launched the CORe (Credential of Readiness) program through their online HBX education initiative.

The nine-week long online program has three course options: business analytics, financial accounting and economics for managers. The program aims to introduce students from non-business backgrounds to the essential principles of business. Students who participate in the program will get to be a part of the Harvard community, though they will not be enrolled in the actual business school.

This program could help undergraduate students to decide if moving on to a graduate-level business education would be a good fit after graduation. Since the program is run strictly online, the program could also be useful for students who are considering online education options.

The number of students who are interested in online education has been increasing steadily over the last few years. A June report from the U.S. Department of Education shows that online education is becoming increasingly popular in the United States.

The report, “Enrollment in Distance Education Courses, by State: Fall 2012,” shows that 12.5 percent of postsecondary students were enrolled in online classes exclusively in the fall of 2012. More than one-fourth of U.S. students took at least one online class during this time frame. The report included undergraduate, graduate and certificate-seeking students.

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