The Yale University School of Medicine and 2U, an education technology company, have been denied accreditors’ permission to offer a physician assistant master’s degree online as an expansion of an existing campus degree program. Yale’s announcement of the program in March was heralded as evidence that even the nation’s most prestigious universities were moving toward online degrees. It was to be the first to offer the same Ivy League degree from an online program as from the campus version. But as the Yale experience shows, getting a campus degree program online and accredited is not simple.

April 14, 2015 ・ From The New York Times