This New MIT Master's Program Doesn't Require A College Or High School Degree

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  1. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

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    Fred Thys
    July 11, 2017

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    The Poverty Action Lab, officially known as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, or J-PAL, is testing more than 800 programs around the world. And now it's part of a bold experiment by MIT: to allow students to take rigorous courses online for credit, and if they perform well on exams, to apply for a master's degree program on campus.

    "Anybody could do that," Duflo says. "At this point, you don't need to have gone to college. For that matter, you don't need to have gone to high school."

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