With USC and Georgetown now offering for-credit graduate level coursework online, 2U seems on-track to make that dream a reality, removing costly barriers in the process.

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Other variations: being one credit short of the number required to graduate, missing a critical court date or having to take an exam in a course for which they never went to class.

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And for junior and senior year, graduate school, and job training, there is a lifetime learning credit.

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An economics graduate of McMaster University in Canada, Teik Ngan joined MBf as a credit officer in 1984, a year before the Malaysian economy went into a tailspin.

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To Urey's credit, the young Mr Miller did not suffer the common fate of graduate students relegation to the sidelines when the master's hypothesis is proved right.

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This native Californian, a Berkeley and Wharton graduate, arrived on the scene in the late 1960s at a time of turmoil in the credit and securities markets.

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