Don't misrepresent where you went to school.

[alexf.1990]

I agree, there is a pent up demand for highly competitive online offerings among qualified students. I think it's inevitable that someone will take this plunge in a way that isn't as half assed as Harvard Extension. As you note, Columbia and NYU and Vanderbilt among others are already in this space.

Harvard Extension hasn't really had a problem until they started offering a ton of online courses in the last decade. When all of their courses were on campus and taught by either Harvard professors or professors from other local colleges, there was less of a stigma against them. As it stands, a HES graduate student only needs to take 4 courses on campus to finish a masters. Students can get around this even further by taking courses with "intensive weekends" that meet for one weekend on campus but count as a full campus course.

The problem is that requiring more courses on campus reduces the availability for non-traditional students to graduate, which is the founding purpose of HES.