Cardean is authorised to grant degrees by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council. UNext employs experts in the fields of cognitive design, psychology and instructional design to craft courses in ways to motivate and retain students. The programme is a partnership between the University of Denver, Copenhagen Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Reykjavik University and Monterrey Tech in Mexico. This is a 19-month programme offered largely electronically. However, students do convene with faculty in sites in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.
Students study on campus in Durham and at the university's Frankfurt campus.
In Austria WU Vien offers a joint EMBA with the Carlson School of Management, which is part of the University of Minnesota. Between taught modules the students keep in touch in virtual chat rooms. Students spend the first seven months in Vienna and the last seven in South Carolina. In Germany, WHU Koblenz's Otto Beisham Graduate School of Management runs a joint Executive MBA programme with the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanstown, near Chicago. The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Fundacio Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are also involved.