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By Robert M. Neer

Higher education has become big business for big business.

As corporations have assumed greater responsibility for the education of their employees, they have begun to establish their own colleges and universities.

About 400 business sites now include a building labelled college", "university," "Institute," or "education center" according to industry estimates.

Many corporate educational institutions offer the same range of courses available at traditional colleges.

Hamburger U.

Harvard, however, need not worry about losing many talented applicants to such schools in the near future most business "colleges," like McDonald's Hamburger University in Illinois, offer courses of instruction that last less than one year. The Chronicle of Higher Education

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