Mylan Inc. employee Sherry Korczynski says she attended West Virginia University's executive M.B.A. program prior to Chief Operating Officer Heather Bresch and was able to earn a degree by taking some classes "remotely."

The arrangement, involving four classes worth 10 credits, was made through professor Paul Speaker, head of the E.M.B.A. program at the time, she told The Associated Press.

"I did not have to be in my class," Ms. Korczynski said. "My arrangement with Dr. Speaker was to complete each class remotely on my own in Philadelphia."

Ms. Korczynski said she could not finish her studies in West Virginia because of a job transfer.

A call and e-mail to Mylan yesterday seeking an interview with Ms. Korczynski were not returned.

The situation involving Ms. Korczynski, who told the AP she was hired by Mylan in January as director of business development, appears to be different than the one that Ms. Bresch, daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, says she arranged. The E.M.B.A. program was designed in part to allow students to do course work outside the classroom, but Ms. Bresch told the AP last week that Mr. Speaker allowed her to substitute work experience for 10 credits.

Mr. Speaker, who did not return phone calls yesterday, last week declined to talk specifically about Ms. Bresch but told the AP that no one in the E.M.B.A. program ever received credit for work experience.

Ms. Bresch's contention that she finished a master's of business administration degree in 1998 has come under fire since a Dec. 21 story by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that raised questions about how university officials went about awarding the degree retroactively in October, nearly 10 years after she left the program. The newspaper found officials added six courses and grades, worth 16 credits, to her transcript without any record of her registering, paying or doing the work for the classes, and without consulting the professors who taught the courses. In addition, two courses that had been marked "incomplete" were changed to letter grades.

The rewriting of her record was done after the newspaper sought to confirm Ms. Bresch's academic credentials following her promotion to Mylan's chief operating officer in October.

A panel of two WVU professors and three educators from outside the state investigating the university's actions is expected to issue a report to Provost Gerald Lang within days.