Saturday, 14 January 2012

Show me the campus! Send me the thesis!

See below for detail but in general if your university does
not have a campus nor if you did not finish a thesis, you
are either self-styling yourself as a PhD or you bought a
fake degree from a diploma mill.

'If the answers to many of the following questions are “yes,”
the degree provider under consideration may be a “mill”:

Can degrees be purchased?
    -Is there a claim of accreditation when there is no
    evidence of this status?
    -Is there a claim of accreditation from a questionable
    accrediting organization?
    -Does the operation lack state or federal licensure
    or authority to operate?
    -Is little if any attendance required of students,
    either online or in class?
    -Are little or so few assignments required for students
    to earn credits?
    -Is a very short period of time required to earn a degree?
    -Are degrees available based solely on experience or
    resume review?
    -Are there few requirements for graduation?
    -Does the operation fail to provide any information about
    a campus or business location or address and rely, e.g.,
    only on a post office box? (or an address in Timbuku?)'
    -Does the operation fail to provide a list of its faculty
    and their qualifications?
    -Does the operation have a name similar to other well-known
    colleges and universities?
    -Does the operation make claims in its publications for
    which there is no evidence?

Reference:
Council for Higher Education Accredition
http://www.chea.org/degreemills/frmStates.htm

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