And they just keep coming...

Farington University claims to be registered and accredited, and even offers High School Diploma Certificates for work and life experience.

 

The same group that owns Adams, Imperial, Kendall, Kings, Lafayette, MacArther and Ratchford Universities now brings you Divinity University of the Americas.

 

and the US DOE is dragged into the accreditation page through reference...

 

Maybe we should start a poll to see which diploma mill should win an award for originality and marketing savy. Mind you, in the end the score will still be ZERO.

 

New Award

The award would be the "Stinky" and the winner for the year would have the highest combined score among the following categories:

- the biggest and most far-fetched lie
- the most realistic B&M look
- the most credible sounding accreditation
- the easiest degree to get
- the least expensive
- the most mobile (locations moved to in past 5 years)
- the least impressive real address
- the fewest staff
- most spam mail distributed
- owner/operator with most arrests
- owner/operator with most jail time served

 

trolling for a fake degree?

In the Farington University front page at
http://www.faringtonuniversity.org/ is a blank white field above the ::No Books! exhortation. It really contains white-on-white text meant to be read by search engines. If you select the area with your mouse, you can read what's there: the word "fake" appears a couple of times. Here's what I mean:

 

amstead "fake" too

Amstead also has terms like "fake college degrees" hidden (gray-on-gray this time) on
http://www.amsteaduniversity.org/.

It's above the visible "Our online college degree program is available to all qualified applicants regardless of age..."

Oh, this is much too easy. Who are they trying to fool?

 

Farington.

Harrington.

Barrington.

Send an urgent message to Lord Carrington. I think he's taking the waters at Warrington.

 

3r's, then 4...

Hi John,

A possible variation to your list:

Farington.
Harrington.
Barrrington.
...message to Lord Carrrrington...
...taking the waters at Warrrrrington.


G

 

Re: 3r's, then 4...

Mmmm.........sounds like what Harry Potter will say before making a magic spell.

Haha.

M.

 

Quoted from Farington's website:

Why doesn't the US DOE just have its own accrediting body which can have rules that all US universities can go by? Any schools that would not meet the criteria would be illegal. It seems that would put a stop to a lot of this nonsense.

 

Remember, this is the USA we're talking about. Many Americans feel that education should be entirely a state, rather than a federal, responsibility. In 1980, Ronald Reagan ran for president with the promise that if he were elected, he would abolish the US Department of Education.

Most other countries do work as you suggest.

The plus side of the US accreditation system is that we/you have academics evaluating universities, rather than civil servants doing it.