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"For a distance MBA you can pay from $6,000 to $120,000. To get the most bang for your buck ... check out GetEducated.com"
GetEducated.com – "a great source for weeding out phonies" (among online colleges).
"Thanks much for your wonderful site! I've recommended it to my students and entered a program I found at GetEducated.com." --Charles Balch, MBA, Ph.D. --Professor, Arizona Western College
Vicky Phillips -- Founder of GetEducated.com ... "for 20 years the leading consumer advocate for online college students" ... Different Paths to a College Degree, Sept. 2009
Vicky Phillips ... founder of GetEducated.com ... "one of the nation’s leading experts on educational fraud" ... . ~Joyce Lain Kennedy~ (Nov, 2009), LA Times
"Kiplinger Personal Finance" partners with Get Educated - Top 15 Picks Prestigious Online Masters Degrees
Get Educated helps LATimes Consumer Reporter David Lazarus in "Getting an Education Learning Over the Internet" -- Nov. 10, 2010
Get Educated's beloved mascot, Chester Ludlow, dog with online MBA, helps Neely Tucker, Washington Post reporter, expose murderous minister with degree mill pedigree - Dec. 2010
Clayton College of Natural Health — an unaccredited online school in Birmingham, AL — is closing.
The private, for-profit online school had been offering bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in holistic health and nutrition since the late 1990s. About 3,000 students across the U.S. were enrolled in the non-accredited school at the time of the announcement in July.
TV station WWLTV is reporting that Columbus University online of Louisiana, a non accredited online school, is the target of an FBI investigation for diploma mill fraud and the selling of fake diplomas online.
The FBI alleges the school is being run from prison by former state Senator of Louisiana, Michael O'Keefe Sr., 78, who served in office for 24 years before being sentenced to federal prison for stealing from an insurance company, according to WWLTV.
Here's a list most states hope they never make. A list of the top 10 states if you want to safely operate a degree mill or a diploma mill. Historically, phony online colleges crank out diplomas and college degrees at a dizzying pace in these ten states.{{LeftSponsor53}} Sadly, the United States may lead the world in diploma mills, degree mills, and fake online colleges, according to a report by Verifile Limited, a United Kingdom firm. Here is a list of the top 10 diploma mill states in the U.S. According to Verifile these states may be home to the highest number of fake universities—unaccredited institutions of higher education—and unrecognized accrediting agencies: 1. California (134) 2. Hawaii (94) 3. Washington (87) 4. Florida (57) 5. Texas (53) 6. New York (44) 7. Louisiana (39) 8. Illinois (29) 8. (tie) Nevada (29) 10. Arizona (28)
California ranks #1 among degree mill states because the state has long allowed unaccredited colleges to legally operate and award degrees.
Question: I’m worried about employer acceptance of my online degree. I just completed my bachelors online and am ready to send out my resume. Should I use my cover letter to reveal to potential employers that I earned my degree online?
—Holly, Nashville, TN Answer:
These days, taking college or post-secondary courses online is not an oddity. In 2010, more than 85 percent of traditional residential colleges will offer college courses online or through distance learning.
Online education is no longer the future. It’s right now. Employers are embracing online education in record numbers. Unlike a decade ago, employers no longer automatically perceive online education or distance education as inferior or second class.
As a result, there is no need to reveal in a cover letter or resume that you “earned your degree online.” Details about why you chose any particular type of school—such as a private school versus a public school or a Christian college versus a secular college—are best left to discussion during an actual interview.
Rochville University, an online college lacking proper accreditation, and specializing in life experience online degrees, awarded a distance online MBA (a life experience college degree) to a dog (GetEducated's pug mascot, Chester Ludlow) for $499. Yet Rochville University's diplomas based on work experience and life experience continue to be touted by hundreds of professionals on the resumes they post to LinkedIn, a popular online networking site. Besides Rochville, many other online colleges that lack proper distance learning accreditation are listed by LinkedIn users on their public resumes—thousands of professionals claiming what amounts to fake diplomas and phony degrees.
HR screeners be forewarned: degree and resume fraud may be rampant.
