Acceptance of job applicants who possess State Approved Degrees

Just curious, does anybody have hard scientific evidence (studies, surveys, poll results) of the acceptance of job applicants who possess State Approved/Legally Registered, but unaccredited degrees, by commercial business employers. I would not expect for there to be acceptance amongst regionally accredited academic employers; but in the general business world, my thoughts are these schools, which tend to be vocationally oriented/non-traditional, are more aptly accepted. I am referring to legal schools, where the degree could be used legally used in 47 US states (less: OR, NJ, ND), such as, CPU, CCU, PW, KW - these schools do not claim false accreditation, do have courses of study (while perhaps inferior), and publicly meet the regulations of the state in which they reside. I would not classify schools that have set up their location in the Caribbean/or suddenly claim accreditation form the former Soviet Union/an African Nation in this category; nor would I classify even a state licensed school that claims accreditation from an organization that is not recognized by the United Sates Department of Education.

Thanks,

 

Yes, I do. Very recent, too. (Within the last 3 months.) I'll be looking to publish portions of my research after my dissertation is accepted by UIU.

 

Great question. Rich, I can't wait to see the results of your work. (Well, at least the Reader's Digest version of it.)

I can only tell you that my company (with over 40,000 employees) only accepts RA degrees on face value and evaluates all others on a case-by-case basis. They are very strict about it, which makes me think that they must have been burned by an employee with a fake degree in the past. However, I would suspect that most employers would easily accept a degree from a state-approved school since it seems that most don't even notice degrees from degree mills!

 

Who does the post-Soviet thing other than IUFS and its, uh, offspring?

 

Yep.

 

I would guess that a state-approved J.D. would be accepted by most, but by no means all, state and private employers (not the feds) so long as the applicant was a member of a state bar.

If there's any real competition for the job, though, an ABA J.D. would win every time.

Even if a state approved J.D. holder never intended to practice law, he would do well to get himself admitted to the bar anyway as a way of bolstering a dicey degree.

Nosborne, JD