College Accreditation – Fact or Fiction

The demand by the American public to have USA colleges accredited is admirable but misguided. A university's accredited status does not assure students are receiving the promise of accreditation that includes academic respect, degree recognition or most importantly - a better opportunity for jobs. According to Dr. Fred DiUlus, Dean of Global Academy Online, the international online and blended university builders, this is a myth promoted to charge outrageous tuition by less than adequate universities.

Puffed up by accreditation, DiUlus says, schools pave a questionable path for eager and anxious students lining up to get into and graduate from an accredited and easy to-pass-through institution. No one, he notes, who successfully enters one of these marginal schools fails. Make no mistake, he warns, even well-known media promoted accredited and booming so-called free schools promote the idea of a quick road to success with little academic rigor to back it up.

DiUlus goes on to observe that the perception of 'easier' is plied by aggressive school marketers earning up to 60% of the first year tuition for each student they sign up as agents. The agents blister online social media with gibberish of never challenged half-truths to recruit what insiders refer to as 'intakes' for their client schools. The only student failure and their inability to succeed is based not on the school's rigor but on the learner's own self-imposed drop out – an unusually high rate tied directly to the high costs of tuition or the student's own sloth. These institutions pander their authenticity among the public and flaunt with impunity their successful pimping of a regulatory agency's 'minimum standards' of accreditation as a badge of honor all the while dedicared to supporting the school's pursuit of high stakes profitability.

DiUlus's annual rating of over 500 online degree granting institutions worldwide is published annually as the BEST and WORST ONLINE SCHOOLS. One in five of the online provider schools were found to have had little academic value for students or possess the ability for students to transfer their credits to traditional schools. To add insult to injury the perception of an easily acquired degree finds it rarely, if ever, recognized as credible by the majority of Human Resource recruiters at major companies, organizations and non-profits around the world. In short, the alleged degree is essentially worthless.

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