Dive Brief:

• MIT Professional Education has added four new courses to its “short programs” lineup, each of which is taught by MIT faculty in five days or less.
• The new courses are offered in June and July on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.
• The courses are on machine learning for big data and text processing, cardiovascular physiology for engineers, professional communications, and rapid prototyping.

Dive Insight:

Short programs could be universities’ answer to alternative credentialing programs and so-called bootcamp operators, though the most popular bootcamp schools focus on teaching programming skills needed to land coding and web development jobs over several weeks or months. The MIT short program lineup now includes more than 40 courses. The new courses range in price from $2,250 for the three-day cardiovascular program to $5,000 for the five-day rapid prototyping program. MIT Professional Education also offers to teach the courses on a company’s site.