Ratchford University essentially admits that it is bogus!

In an unsigned email that was forwarded to degreeinfo.com today, the folks at University Consulting, aka professionaldegrees.com, apparently also aka Ratchford University, said

"We do not claim accredidation and everyone that orders from us knows exactly
what they are getting.

And what, pray tell, could that be? A worthless, unaccredited degree for which no work is done, and which has absolutely no value once employers start to associate the name of the bogus school with the fact that it's bogus?


If the topic "Ratchford University" is not deleted from the discussion thread then we will be forced to contact our lawyers.

Hmmmm. I've never heard of a legitimate program that wanted to be deleted simply because their name was mentioned...

The privacy of the university is our selling point.

Why on earth could the "privacy of the university" be their "selling point"? Unless, of course, they're selling phony degrees and hoping that the employers who receive resumes from Ratchford "graduates" won't figure out that the school doesn't exist...

It's obvious that these people aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. First of all, Ohio is not a state that's friendly to degree mills, and since Ratchford / University Consulting appears to be located there, they obviously didn't do their homework.

Secondly, I don't think that the folks at Judson (or the Ohio attorney general's office consumer affairs department, where several Degreeinfo regulars have contacts) will be thrilled or delighted to know of Ratchford's existence.

Thirdly, they are apparently not even sharp enough to notice that degree.net and degreeinfo.com are two entirely separate entities with no connections, since they sent their complaint about the message on degreeinfo to degree.net.

As I've said for a long time, getting a phony degree is a really stupid idea to begin with, but if you must have a fake degree from a nonexistent school, print one on your laser printer. Need verification? Spend $5/month and get a virtual voicemail box. That's really all you're getting from these folks.

A degree from a nonexistent school that you pay a couple hundred (or couple thousand) bucks for is no more legal or legitimate than one you print yourself, and either route will explode when you least expect it and ruin your career... but if you insist on taking the risk, you might as well save a couple hundred bucks... you'll need it when you're out of work.

 

Any publically accessible web site can hardly be called private!

Judson certainly know about it because I emailed two people (whose names appear both the Ratchford web site and in the Judson staff directory) to ask about Ratchford. I haven't heard back -- probably because the Judson folks immediately contacted their lawyers (which is what I would have done!).

 

Bogus? You're sure? I was so looking forward to receiving a degree judged on the quality of the paper upon which it was printed, that could be obtained from a site offering both Shopping Cart check out and the ever-popular "Qwik-e-Buy" speed degree feature.

 

According to http://www.partydirectory.com/dir/dj/oh.htm , the contact number for Ratchford that Bill found (216-274-6175) is also used by Marc's Music Service in Rocky River (a Cleveland suburb).

Hire a DJ, get a tuition discount!

jon

 

I wonder if the DJ will come to your graduation party for free? <GRIN>