My DBA Journey at ESGCI

Thanks, Dustin --but you're perpetuating a myth, here. It's all a front -- like the guitars and the watches -- but I'll admit, they DO look nice! All of them! As Martin Lawrence might put it, my real talent is "frontin' like I'm all that." ...And it's FUN!!!

 

You wake up in the morning, put a Movado on your wrist and a Telecaster in your hands... What a way to start the day!

 

I understand that Antarctic Polytechnic has a great master's degree in Penguinology.

I don't go for fancy cars
For diamond rings
Or movie stars
I go for penguins
Oh Lord I go for penguins

Throw your money out the door
We'll just sit around
And watch it snow
I go for penguins
Oh Lord I go for penguins
Penguins are so sensitive
Penguins are so sensitive
Penguins are so sensitive
To my needs

-- Lyle Lovett

 

It was an interesting read -- but I didn't see anything about accreditation or equivalent. Lot of stuff about "recognized" Associates, no mention of the word degree anywhere. Looks like "Certificates of recognition" only. Recognized by whom? U of Antarctica itself, I guess.

Also, the website looks like 1994 and the screen seems to be a max of about 1024 x 768 - a very old standard. Hard to trust a University with ancient technology -- particularly one with distance courses.

A University without degrees? That's a switch.

 

Yeah, it's normally the other way around.

 

Great article: http://antarcticaedu.com/fishfarm.htm

 

My five-year-old 15" laptop is 1366 x 768 - 16:9 aspect ratio - widescreen. 1024 x 768 is an old, 4:3 aspect ratio - 4:3 is a relic of DOS days, like 640x480. As for being funny - the course pathways etc. seem serious - and very interesting. Especially the Humanities. And this was interesting

Tuition and Fees. Tuition is free for all online students, both resident and foreign; as per 1998EDU-7.9 of the Antarctica Universal-Education Statute.

I didn't laugh once. Maybe that's on me. I'm gonna look into this further. If the site is active.

 

PS - even my almost 20-year old IBM NetVista desk-anchor (Yes-2004) displays 1366x768. It cost $58 in 2007 and has never failed me or cost me one cent in repairs. (Except a couple of dollars for a new CMOS battery after about 12 years.) Only other thing I've ever done is put a DVD writer in it. I'm having it bronzed, when it finally packs up. If it ever does, that is.

I NEVER do photo-editing on the laptop (and I do quite a bit of it.). The old NetVista is just... better.

 

What's the rationale for doing this over University of the Cumberlands?

 

Does this help?

 

What's the ROI for an unaccredited/unrecognized business degree?

 

Could be quite a lot.

As we know, there are many false claims of degrees, and many people who profit from them. I would imagine such a degree used in less-than-discerning situations (like most employment situations) would do quite well. Of course, as John Bear put it so well, it's like putting a time bomb in your resume. You never know when it will go off. One person's unrecognized-but-legitimate degree is another person's diploma mill paper.

 

Indeed. And depending on the audience, the word diploma mill is thrown around wildly inappropriately. University of Phoenix (RA, online) has been called a diploma mill. So has Quantic (NA, online). Heck, even Eastern (a B&M school around for nearly a hundred years) has been called a diploma mill.

 

Rich is right. Could be quite a lot. Besides, I don't think Tekman needs too awfully much ROI to justify an $8,500 degree. As he says, he'll likely pick up research skills and knowledge that he'll be able to use to good advantage in his proposed digital business. Shouldn't take too long to get his $8,500 back and then some, if that works. I don't think he views this degree as potential resume-embroidery. He has plenty of A-list degrees on that..

Dr. Bear is right about time-bombs. I'm thankful tha, so far, I've had 30 years of employment and 30 years of retirement, and no time-bombs have yet gone off. Yep, 30 years since July 12, 1993. And 71 years in Canada, since July 12 1952. 71 years of undetected crime...

 

Plus -- TEKMAN will be going to Paris -- and I won't. Zut alors!

 

@TEKMAN

How are things going. I would love to get an update

 

The program is good, with many readings, on-demand lectures, and live lectures of at least 2 hours to 6 hours per week. I have nearly completed the taught courses. I will start doing research in March, and continue for two years. The downturn is that the program is new, and a lot of resources are not structured storing in one place. So far, we have no access to any database, only Google Scholar. However, I use Imperial College London and the University of the Cumberlands' databases.

It seems ESGCI offers the program not only through UpGrad but also through another partner, TalentEDGE. It is also offered in Hanoi and Saigon, Vietnam.

• Paris Graduate School of Management Vietnam