Interesting Credentials Thread

This appears to be normal at CapTech as long as you have the 42 credits to transfer in to eliminate the time waster courses. When I spoke to them a few years ago, they said they could have a student done in three to four semesters. Going through the pages of CapTech graduates is a gold mine for finding people with multiple doctorates.

I've gone through several of their dissertations, and two stood out. There was the computer science dissertation that was a document review of laws and regulations surrounding digital forensics investigations. It was basically a 200-page literature review. The other was a business analytics and data science dissertation that wasn't focused on data. The person gave a survey to Black women who left STEM jobs, and the dissertation focused on their reasons for quitting and not data analytics. There were hardly any numbers in the dissertation.

Oh, and as you can see on his profile, he defended in October. He only needed to wait until December for his doctorates to be conferred. So, he was finishing in 10 months.

 

This is baller, I want something similar just to show my haters, let them know it's on.

 

This guy did college and university at the same time! And then did an ENEB degree.

 

Chinese man, 29, with 4 PhDs and several master’s degrees probed for dubious credentials: Many question man’s academic credentials as ‘against common sense’ given that most PhDs take at least 4 years to complete (Fran Lu, The South China Morning Post, October 20, 2024)

 

Don Ariail: a professor of accounting at Kennesaw State University with three accredited doctorates: DBA from Nova Southeastern University, DBL from the University of South Africa, and EdD in higher education leadership from Georgia Southern University.

 

Not sure if Dr. Kwan Hong TAN was mentioned before, but his +20 (professional/executive) doctorates, with three ongoing, are really impressive.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tankwanhong/

 

Gee whiz. It took me forever to earn my one doctorate. I cannot imagine all of these.

 

Your one doctorate is legitimate.

 

I recognize some of these schools, and they're unaccredited. I'm less impressed and more concerned about his mental health. There is no good reason to earn a half a dozen DBAs, especially DBAs from diploma mills.

 

I wish we could get a peek behind the curtain of some of these people. They list grades, they talk about completing dissertations, etc. At the end of the day, they want the resume (or LinkedIn) line item but we never get to see the product of all that work. I wonder if those schools are actually grading something (like the guy I knew trying to get an EB1A visa by publishing a bunch of "papers" in predatory journals), or if it's just a handshake agreement and they're never actually producing any output.

 

There was a guy who had something like 25 Associate's degrees, I thought the same thing in regards to mental health.

 

25 associate's degrees sounds like a lot of fun weekends to me. 25 bachelor's + up is when I start to get concerned.

 

He was middle-aged and still living with his parents. If I recall correctly, he kept trying to sue the Air Force, and his lawsuits would get thrown out.

All of his associate's degrees were in various concentrations of business and criminal justice. Those community colleges should have told him no. I don't know if TESU still has this rule, but they would not let you earn two semi-related degrees at the same level. Have a BA in Psychology and now you want a BA in Criminal Justice? Too bad! For a third degree, Excelsior would make you write a justification for getting the degree.

 

The cynic in me immediately thought, most universities are mostly checking if a student can pay or not, not whether they have related degrees!

 

I did not see any titles for his dissertations and theses. It would have helped if he had at least listed a couple of them.

 

Fair enough. Now I'm wondering about the record for most associate's degrees in unrelated topics. At some point (six, maybe?) it feels like it would start becoming less rewarding, though. All that work for lots of the lowest-ranking post-secondary degree.

Also, I learn something new every day. I did not know there was much overlap between psychology and criminal justice degrees. I suppose that's if you're taking a bunch of courses in forensic psychology?

 

Criminology/criminal justice is a combination of various social science fields, but leans more in the direction of sociology. I think that TESU was more concerned with outcomes. If you already have a degree in psychology, what would a degree in criminal justice add as far as job prospects? Almost nothing. You don't need a degree in criminal justice or criminology to become a police officer, correctional officer, or parole or probation officer. You also don't need a bachelor's in CJ to be admitted to a master's or doctoral program in CJ.

 

There is some, but criminal justice/criminology has its beginnings in sociology, and many schools house their CJ/criminology programs in the sociology department.

In both my A.S. and B.A. programs, there were certain psychology courses which counted as CJ electives, such as abnormal psychology, psychology of deviance, etc., they usually had to do with criminal behavior.

 

I wonder why people feel the need to jam their title with every letter they can think of.