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The state of Washington passed a bill [13] in March 2006 "prohibiting false or misleading college degrees." [14] The law was approved and introduced penalties of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for knowingly granting or promoting an unaccredited award.
A diploma mill or degree mill is a business that sells illegitimate diplomas or academic degrees, respectively. [1] [2] The term diploma mill is also used pejoratively to describe any educational institution with low standards for admission and graduation, low career placement rate, or low average starting salaries of its graduates.
Diploma Mills: Degrees of Fraud by David Wood Stewart and Henry A. Spille. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Company 1988. Abstract, Education Resources Information Center; Degree Mills: the Billion Dollar Industry That Has Sold More than a Million Fake College Diplomas by Allen Ezell and John Bear. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.
Searching for a degree program can sometimes feel like being adrift in the wilderness, with no map and no way of gauging the intention of approaching strangers. 7 warning signs an online degree is ...
Some diploma and degree mills have played a role in creating these accrediting bodies as well. These diploma and degree mills may further confuse matters by claiming to consider work history, professional education, or previous learning, and may even require the submission of a purported dissertation or thesis, in order to give an added ...
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Since it had no real students and no faculty and was housed in buildings which had once been a Motel 6, Hamilton was widely thought to be a diploma mill. [2] The school issued degrees based on "life experiences." Candidates for a degree were required to answer a few questions and write a small project of 2,000 words (about seven typed pages).