Diploma mills deserve their own rankings
Last Friday, US News and World Report released the 2008 ranking of American Graduate Schools. Diploma mills — unaccredited colleges that award degrees with little or no study — were not included.
More and more Americans are buying credentials online, but faced with a staggering array of phony schools, how is the aspiring charlatan to choose?
Ranking fake schools presents an interesting challenge. Traditional metrics break down rather quickly when applied to an online facade with no faculty, no courses and no fixed address. So I explored a few dozen sites, devised some...
One of the best "Diploma Mill" articles I have found so far..I'm studying to get my MBA (live and in person) and I'll be using some quotes from your article in my presentation...have you ever considered turning this into a book?
Perhaps if the U.S. had a program in place to award credit for life experience, such as the VAE program in France there wouldnt be so much of this for the Mills to prey on. I aquired a Bachelors from University de Wallis in France via VAE, and using the same info in the States would get around thirty college credits. Its a joke.
Marketing yourself is a big deal these days. The competition is brutal. If you're a writer for example, and you want to market yourself as a pro inexpensively, a degree mill can work for you. Professor or Doctor Joe Blo sounds better for marketing than just plan Joe Blo.
You'll feel better about you if you actually earned the title and can get the degree later. The internet marketing phenomenon is here and degree mills wont make you feel good about yourself- They can however make you wealthier much faster.
Eventually you'll decide that money isn't the only thing and want to actually earn the degree instead of just paying for one.
Listen to a college grad or an olympic metal winner what they have to say. They'll tell you they worked hard for years to get to that moment. And it's worth it. The self-esteem and self-worth is evident. You'll feel better about you're entire life paying the price for the real thing.
This is a great article on diploma mills that are not illegal in most states, whereby 500 senior federal employees have this type of degree helping them to make above average incomes with their diploma mill degrees that have stood up to several federal investigations.
While I have the utmost respect for Yale, it has major problems that these diploma mills don't, including sexual assaults and sex scandals, massive funding misappropriations, violating the federal False Claims Act through mismanagement of more than 6,000 federally-funded research grants, the AutoAdmit scandal, the Yale Website Princeton Admissin scandal, the study abroad scandal, phoney Yalie Akash Maharaj, and more Yale scandals too numerous to handle.
The quantity, breadth, impact and extreme illegality of the many Yale frauds make the diploma mills seem downright magna cum laude when comparing demeanor.
Cocky Chambers, Village TV