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[quote=Anonymous]Harvard Extension School (HES) is not really viewed as part of Harvard proper by people in the know. All the "we are Harvard" messaging is only done by HES, not by real Harvard. HES' job is to make money to fund the real Harvard so they have an incentive to sell their degrees in this misleading fashion. Their degrees are all in "extension studies" because they are watered down lite versions of real Harvard degrees which are incredibly competitive to gain admission.
Some examples: ALM concentration in government is a watered-down Kennedy School of Government degree or the Department of Government master's coursework. ALM in management is a watered-down MBA (taught in a completely different format from Harvard Business School), ALM in data science is a watered-down SM Data Science from the Paulson School of Engineering. None of them are proper degrees but "extensions"/lite versions of them and are therefore named accordingly. Notice how proper Harvard schools don't offer degrees in the same field whereas HES offers a ton of duplicates/mirror reflections of real Harvard's programs. [/quote]

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