Rochville University

Anyone walking thru this forum should agree that RU is a scam. How can it be so bold to promote by the legitamacy of its degrees and the looks-real but phoney accreditation bodies? Couldn't FBI do anything once and for all to clean up such illegal and non-existent degree granting "universities", namely, the captioned and Belford, Almeda, Robertstown, Kennedy Western, Pacific Western, Fairfax, Clayton, etc., etc.??

pjwong

 

Some of those schools opearate legally in the U.S. Others do not operate at all in the U.S. and are, thus, beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.

Degree mills, like drug dealers, won't go away, or be stopped, because of law enforcement. You can't eliminate the supply--there are too many people willing to step up and replace the ones you get. Again, like drugs, you have to get at the demand. Employers have to stop giving jobs to people with fake degrees. Until that happens, degree mills will have plenty of customers.

 

The FBI did close down quite a few degree mills some time in the late 90s. Not sure when but undoubtedly someone here will recall the exact year. There's probably a lot of reasons why they can't "do anything once and for all" to get rid of all of them.

Some reasons could be:

1. So many new ones popping up constantly it's tough to keep track.

2. They likely don't hear about them until several state attorney general offices get tired of the complaints piling up.

3. One person's "degree mill" is another person's "legitimate institution of learning". Even experts in education and DL don't always agree which schools fit which category.

4. Believe it or not, it's not illegal to operate a degree mill. It's unethical but federal law enorcement deals with illegalities not ethical concerns.

5. In a post 9/11 world the FBI has bigger and better priorities than saving potential students from themselves.


People need to protect themselves. The old adage "if it sounds too good too be true it probably is" definitely applies here. Think critically and be skeptical.
In all things, caveat emptor.

Potential students need to research before enrolling in any school. Not sure about a named accreditor? Look it up. A simple web search can tell anyone if the school made up it's own accrediting agency. Ask other people. If possible contact current or former students. If that's not possible do a simple Usenet search. Anyone who can't do a simple web or Usenet search and read and interpret the results likely wouldn't do well in any DL program, even from a legitimate school.


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