This tongue-in-cheek video from GetEducated.com provides some good “red flags” to look out for when shopping for online degrees. These can include:
- No admission exams
- Not asking for transcripts from previous schools
- Giving credit for “life experience”
- Asking for payment up front
- Unfamiliar accreditation (or no accreditation or all)
I once met a guy that claimed to be have a PhD. I asked him what his undergrad had been. He said that he didn’t have a Bachelor Degree. My first thought was “how do you do that??” Later on, I Googled the name of the “university” he said he had gotten his PhD from. Know what? It was a Degree Mill located somewhere offshore.
The second thing I found was that this Degree Mill was supposed to be “accredited” by some organization I had never heard of. I little more research turned up that this accreditation organization was actually owned by the Degree Mill. So they were basically “certifying” themselves!
Online education is a million dollar business so you can be sure that it has attacked its share of Degree Mills who take people’s money and hand them a worthless piece of paper in return.
Take it from Chester the Pug – don’t be fooled by Diploma Mills.
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