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Thus virtual schools tend to operate mainly in rural areas, although recently there have been some projects in North America aimed at students in urban schools as well, providing an alternative mode of study to face-to-face classes. In 2003 the US Department of Education Star Schools program listed 100 virtual schools, defined as those entities which offer courses designed for k-12 learners and which offer at least some Web-based courses. At the same time, the Ontario Institute of Educational Studies at the University of Toronto listed 24 public providers of distance education programmes for the school sector in Canada.
In the same year there were 86 students who graduated. The University of Phoenix (owned by the Apollo Group) provides standardized face-to-face programmes designed at their headquarters but delivered to over 100,000 students by contract faculty (usually working professionals) through local centres in most major cities in the United States. The University of Phoenix Online (UoPOnline), now a wholly Internet-based operation, started in the early 1990s as part of the University of Phoenix, and was spun off as a separate company within the Apollo Group in 1999.
Others are specific programmes in an organization still dependent on older forms of distance education. Thus the Indira Ghandi National Open University in India, which otherwise depends heavily on print and broadcasting for its programmes, offers an Advanced Diploma and a Bachelor degree in Information Technology, using a combination of CD-ROM and Internet technologies. NIIT in India also offers online programmes to computer engineers and scientists. The Virtual University of Pakistan offers a federally recognized Bachelor of Computer Science, using a combination of television broadcast, Internet and private sector computer institutes.