> In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree Why can't they justify it? If the deal is MIT degrees for resident

> In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree Why can't they justify it? If the deal is MIT degrees for residential students and 'distance' degrees from an MIT subsidiary, that's just fine. Edit: It's trivial to argue that a 'real' MIT degree includes the experience of being resident and directly interacting with profs and other students.