Foreign based student wants to study for US degree

My family has been sponsoring an orphaned Korean student in her studies in Korea.

She went to a Korean univerisity to study English. The foriegn staff at her university confirm that several members of the university rugby team are registered in her course. They will never attend classes nor sit any exams. After four years they will be granted Bachelor degrees in English. She now realises her own her degree will be worthless.

Consequently she is interested in studying for a US degree by distance.

Any advice where she should apply to? Charter Oak?

 

Hello,

I'm sure someone will offer suggestions for studying English (not my area). Hey, wake up you liberal arts types!

Your foster daughter obviously has a better understanding of what is happening at her university, but in general, I doubt if there is any country in the world that is free of scandal in higher education. If the university is generally providing a good learning environment, these sports-related scandals and administrative scandals do not necessarily mean that degrees from the university in question are worthless. No one doubts the academic reputation of Notre Dame as a result of their recent coaching scandal-ette.

Of course, if the university has a wide-spread poor reputation, that is another matter.

 

Having lived in Korea (1994/1995) and having taught at a prestigious university in that country (Korea University - Institute of Foreign Language Studies), I can assure you that such things do go on. However, they also go on in the United States (and likely every other country on the planet). As long as she did what she was supposed to do (study, get good grades, and so on), I wouldn't worry at all about what others have done.

I tend to like Thomas Edison State College, but any of them are acceptable. If her goal is to learn English (and not English literature; language studies as opposed to literature studies), then I would recommend a residential program. Korea has some quite good universities (Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University, Ewha Women's University, and so on).



Tom Nixon