Harvard Liberal arts students or engineering majors who want to get educated on the corporate world will have a chance to benefit from the teaching of Harvard Business School this summer.

Harvard University is the latest school to offer an online business program to non-business majors. Harvard Business School just launched the CORe (Credential of Readiness) program through their online HBX education initiative.

The nine-week long online program has three course options: business analytics, financial accounting and economics for managers. Case-based learning is the focus, giving students real problems to work on.

The program aims to introduce students from non-business backgrounds to the essential principles of business. Students who participate in the program will get to be a part of the Harvard community, though they will not be enrolled in the actual business school.

For undergraduate students who have never tested the waters of a business degree, this program could help them decide if graduate-level business education would be a good fit after graduation.

Since the program is online, it could also be a trial run for students who are considering online education options, a number that has been steadily increasing over the past few years.

A June report from the U.S. Department of Education shows that online education is becoming increasingly popular in the United States.

The report, “Enrollment in Distance Education Courses, by State: Fall 2012,” shows that 12.5% of postsecondary students were enrolled in online classes exclusively in the fall of 2012. More than one-fourth of U.S. students took at least one online class during this time frame.

The report included undergraduate, graduate and certificate-seeking students.

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