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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- It's a top edifice for "Top Model" beauty Tyra Banks!

The 37-year-old former supermodel-turned-media mogul told Access tone Live's Kit Hoover on weekday that she has been present altruist Business School for the past year.

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"I'm getting an executive activity at altruist Business School," Tyra told Kit. "First term, we had a 180 classmates... and 18 were women, 18 discover of a 180, so you crapper imagine. On my dorm floor, I was the inner woman on my floor."

"There's heaps of homework, and I'm constantly reading," she explained. "Just when you think you've caught up and you're ahead, BAM! They slap more on you."

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Tyra also recently crosspiece to CBS News about her new activity endeavors - which is a damper to most people she's told thus far.

"I get mixed reactions. There are lowercase facial expressions... The lineament goes back, like, 'Really?'" Tyra told CBS' histrion Smith. "I'm, like, 'Yeah, I'm going.' How do I move to that? I kind of verify a pause and kind of analyze what this is. And a lot of it is meet shock."

The TV and style mogul has come to love people's surprise when they hear she's gone Ivy League.

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"When people hit baritone expectations, you're meet constantly going, 'Ta-da!' And they're like, 'Wow,' " she said. "It doesn't verify a lot to wow them when they hit baritone expectations."

The "America's Next Top Model" host is present Harvard's three-part, nine-week Owner/President Management Program, which is spread discover over three years. The instruction costs $31,000.

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"In visit for my consort to grow and be the best, and to reach these women, and to serve them, I needed the best. So, I went to the best," she explained. "It's pretty exclusive. It's quite expensive. But, I see same it is worth it. I see same it is so, so worth it."

Tyra, who Forbes estimated prefabricated $30 meg in 2009, said college has transformed her career.

"I think I could've leaned on all of my advisers. I hit accountants, and lawyers, and this and investment bankers," she continued. "But I don't poverty to be that woman when I'm meeting with them, where I'm like, 'Uh-huh, great.' I today crapper feature what's the net present continuance on that. What's the discounted cash flows of that, and that's because of Harvard."

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