Early-on timing that made other prestigious business schools look like luddites. Faculty prepare cases and other learning materials much like they prepare such materials for live classrooms. What is even more important is that when large universities such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, NYU, etc. began to experiment in distance education over the Internet, they did so through their adult-extension programs rather than their mainline schools and departments. However, they are the first, to my knowledge, to employ distance education courses over the Internet that lead to a masters degree in accounting and qualify students to take the CPA examination. It should be noted that only two of the courses are web courses taken by employees who are working full time around the world.
Students meet at the same time in virtual classrooms.
The Terry College of Business Program at the University of Georgia is the first university business school, to my knowledge. This is an MBA program targeted for consulting-division employees of PWC who do not take a leave of absence from work for any course in the program. The only accounting courses are accountancy courses normally required of MBA students who are not concentrating in accounting or intending to sit for the CPA examination. The willingness of the faculty to both tailor-make courses for one accounting firm and to author the materials needed for asynchronous delivery of those courses. The delivery of every course in the MBA program asynchronously online.