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Members donated nearly $ 1 million to fund the program and the curriculum was approved by the
Maritime Provinces' Higher Education Commission. The program was founded by Saint Mary's University Professor John Chamard and took its first students in 2003. The first cohort graduated in 2007. While other methods of training in co-operatives exist, the MMCCU is the only English-language master's degree in co-operative management by a business school that is internationally accredited. The Sobey School of Business, the home of the MMCCU, has accreditation through the
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The MMCCU degree program was created in 2002 by a partnership between Saint Mary's
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