Showing posts with label Without campus or thesis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Without campus or thesis. Show all posts

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