And then there's Michael Milken's UNext, a distance-learning company that has enlisted the University of Chicago and the Columbia School of Business.

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Other universities, such as Stanford University, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University, are affiliated with UNext, a privately held company that has just started a degree-granting online university focused on business training.

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