As the shortage of people with computer-related Ph.D. degrees continues, it is most important that reasonable means for evaulating the quality of such degrees can be better specified. At present, I am having difficulty evaluating a computer engineering/computer science Ph.D. from the Bucharest Institute of Technology (1983), and a computer science Ph.D. from Fairfax University (UK) (1992).
There isn't! There is not a Fairfax University in the UK. It is a US-based institution, as this forum has noted many times. Telfax
Fairfax is not a good option, they won't be recognized by any serious organization. Their degree will be as good as if you print your own degree from your computer. Regards,
On what basis..... On what basis can you claim to make this remark? Have you empirical evidence to confirm that a degree from tis institution would go completely unrecognised? Having looked at the Fairfax web site since you posted this response, and having checked on on one or two things, I find that theie degree have been accepted, not necessarily in computing/IT, but some of their graduates have been accepted into a variety of UK postgraduate master's level and (a few) doctoral level programmes and they (the Fairfax students) have been successful in their postgraduate studies. I've been in education and advising as a recruitment consultant for so long now that I start with the person, give them the benefit of the doubt and move on from there and from what i have seen and know about Fairfax University its general academic requirements are good. Of course, like all institutions, I am sure there must be occasions where there are queries! Indeed, I was recently in a RA US- UK based academic institution where the President categorically told me that having hired admin people (3 of them) each with an RA EdD in educational administration, he'd never hire anyone again with a doctorate from this particular institution (one of the 'newer' RA type US instititutions). Whether the institution is 'new' or 'older', having a degree does not, per se, tell anyone you can do a particular job! I am here thinking outside medicine and related fields; although as well all know there are people rightly qualified in such professional fields who donlt come up to scratch!
A PhD in Computer Science from a non-accredited US institution will be of very little use. Most universities won’t hire you on the basis of your PhD, if you are looking for a job in industry most likely the PhD is not required and if it is then they will look for an accredited institution. Why to waist your money in this? If you want to call your self a Dr if its fine but I don’t see any more use for it. As for holders of bachelor’s degrees that go to graduate school with unaccredited degrees, it could be the case if the individual is very hard working and if the institution doesn’t bother to check the accreditation of the institution. I know that this is most likely to happen in the UK or Australia where some institutions don’t understand the US accreditation system. If you go for Fairfax, why don’t you go for a trinity college & university degree? It will be cheaper and will require less effort and you will end also with an unaccredited degree from a barely legal institution.
