Hello. I need some help. I have a lot of credits for graduate level courses in business and I'd like to find a credible university that will accept them. Breyer State University will accept them. They have recently been licensed by the State of Alabama. Does this mean that this degree will be respected around the world? Are they a diploma mill? I know that they are not in the same class as Almeda. They won't recognize a degree from Almeda so I think that's a good sign. I know that there is also Excelsior College. But is Excelsior Regionaly accredited? It's not accredited by the AACSB. I'd like to do my DBA after but will any of these 2 universities help me in that respect? Are there any others that would take most of my credits (THatare from respected universities in Montreal)? Thanks for your help, Eric Kelada. B.Com. from HEC university in Montreal. Graduate Diploma in Management from McGill University (Montreal)
Thanks for the reply. That helps alot. Are there any other accredited universities that would take as many credits as Excelsior College? Eric Kelada.
You may want to check out Western Governors University. They don't operate on a credit basis, but rather on an assessment basis. Assuming that you've taken a bunch of graduate level business courses, you would know the topic material. You take the WGU assessments to complete a domain or subdomain of proficiency. Question: If you've got a bunch of graduate credits, why not continue at the school where you earned those credits (assuming, of course, it was only one or two schools).
Hi Erickelada: Welcome aboard! Glad you got warned about that outfit. Excelsior and WGU are good possibilities--consider also Thomas Edison State College (NJ) and Charter Oak State College (CT). Good luck to you.
Wow. There are nice people on our planet! Thanks for all of the info gentlemen. I have to admit that I was tempted by Breyer State. You guys just saved me a bundle and may have changed my life! Have a wonderful day, Eric Kelada.
Tell you what. Use the search function (good luck!) for Levicoff letter or Canyon College [a semi-twin of Breyer]. If you can find the letter, you'll like it.
For some reason, my automated Google searches I set up in Pluck (an RSS and site harvester) always bring up Breyer State University when 'degree mill' or 'diploma mill' are typed in. I have check the html headers of the Breyer State site and looked for similar keywords but nothing is there. Why do you think this is the case? Cheers, George
Because Google ranks not only by how well one crafts one's META tags, but also by how many sites out there in the universe link to a certain thing using certain terms to do so. If enough web sites out in the universe call Breyer State a diploma mill or degree mill and then link to it as an example -- especially if the link to it is like this: Breyer State is a Diploma mill and/or Breyer State is a Degree mill and then if Google's spider crawls such pages and sees a sufficient number of sites with those terms used to link to Breyer State's web site, then, voila, a Google search on said terms will start coming-up on Google as links to Breyer States' web site and, moreover, will start ranking highly. This practice is called "Google Bombing," and Weblogger Adam Mathes is credited with inventing the practice in 2001, when he used it to link the phrase "talentless hack" to a friend's website. The most famous incident of Google Bombing was when a small group of anti-George-Bush website owners all created a link to Bush's biography on the official Whitehouse web site, using the phrase "miserable failure," as in: miserable failure which made it so that anyone who types miserable failure into the Google search box gets the George Bush bio on the official Whitehouse web site. When news of this first broke, Bush lovers became upset and, as an act of retaliation, created links on their web sites (using the same "miserable failure" phrase) to the biography of Democratic ex-president Jimmy Carter on the official Whitehouse web site... hence the Google link to the Carter bio as a sub-link of the Bush link. The alarming part of the whole thing, in my opinion, is how few web sites (as few, it's been calculated, as 32 of them) need band together doing this in order to make a Google Bomb work. So few should not have such an impact on how a search term -- or a site -- ranks. I have always seen this as a flaw in the Google system... but that's just me.
