DETC giveth and (maybe) taketh away.

My personal favorite was a photo on the old Andrew Jackson University site which showed a man sitting at a lap top with a huge grin on his face wearing a shirt, tie and graduation cap!

 

Whoa. I don't think it is considered a "master's degree." The ACCA offers a number of qualifications. It looks like one can study for a bachelor's along the way to that qualification: ACCA Accounting and Business Diploma and BSc in Applied Accounting | ACCA | ACCA Global

Yes, UK universities are often less expensive. (Well, look at H-W and Glasgow for references, but also look at U. of Leicester.) But that's because they're state-supported and charge tuition for overseas students based on their marginal costs of taking on those students.

A doctorate in 3 years at a UK school? Certainly, full-time. But it is twice that long for part-time students. U.S. students doing DL programs at RA schools do not face minimum times of 6 years. They simply do not.

UK schools are not "watered down." But they need to be taken into context.

 

"The Irish educational regulatory authorities - Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) has assigned ACCA Qualification to Level 9 of the Irish National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in 2008. Level 9 holds Irish postgraduate qualifications, such as postgraduate diplomas and masters degrees."

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ACCA is considered at the postgraduate level. I know some professors managed to be admitted into a PhD on the basis of the ACCA qualification.

The ACCA qualification is not well known in the US but it is a good way of getting a recognized professional qualification at low cost.

ACCA is just an example, British computer society qualifications are also well known in the UK and are very low cost.

The closest thing in the American system is the big three that allow to earn a BS based on examinations.

The problem is the US is that there is a huge gap between the best and the worst, people with credentials from top universities have more opportunities. Some companies won't touch you unless you graduate from a top school.

The American system also seems to have different tiers of accreditation (e.g. DETC, RA, AACSB, etc). This seems to be a system used to discriminate among qualifications.

 

I remember that one...a sure classic.

 

Chalk up a half-point for the Tedmeister! Yorktown U., under show cause by DETC earlier in this thread, lost its accreditation last August and no longer has its .edu domain. Still in business at http://www.yorktownuniversity.com

Well, the accreditation is toast, I guess - even if the school may not be - yet.

Johann

 

Well, you may yet get that other half-point, Ted... I stole this from another forum today:

"According to the Sept. 14, 2012 minutes of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE), there were 'fewer than five students enrolled at the institution (Yorktown University).' "

In that forum, the opinion was expressed, that being a university might be considered a secondary activity for Yorktown, which seemed to function primarily as an organization devoted to conservative lobbying and promotion .

Johann