Rural and lower-tier universities, however, still in many cases function as degree factories with failures rare.

The school has been referred to as a diploma mill.

This university was a known diploma mill, where degrees could be bought for money.

How can I tell if it is a legitimate operation or a "diploma mill"?

It is considered to be a diploma mill operation by experts in Japan.

It has been accused of being a diploma mill.

No fly-by-night diploma mill, the vocational school has been in business for 50 years.

It is widely considered to be a diploma mill, operated from an unknown location.

Diploma mill While many distance education programs provide valuable instruction, others offer degrees with little requirements.

For example a schoolteacher might buy a degree from a diploma mill in order to advance to superintendent.

Any company that offers degrees for a flat fee and requires little course work is a diploma mill.

It has been called a diploma mill, lacking sufficient academic standards to award degrees.

They accredited an obvious diploma mill and were subsequently charged with fraud.

Concordia College and University is widely considered to be a diploma mill.

Commodore, do you still own that diploma mill in New Rome?

Media reports identified Columbus as a diploma mill.

However this is an unaccredited diploma mill which awards certificates without requiring study.

Chadwick has been called a diploma mill due to its practice of awarding academic credit for "life experience".

Mr. Karademir said he is not running a diploma mill.

It seemed not only a message about the Chadian diploma mill but also something that one might wish to hang up in an investment bank.

His only degree was from Sequoia University, an unaccredited diploma mill.

The "accreditation" they supply has no legal or academic value, but is used in diploma mill marketing to help attract students.

The diploma mill is probably operating out of Wyoming and/or Malaysia."

During a recent federal probe of a diploma mill, 8 trooper's names came up during the investigation.

She holds questionable degrees awarded by diploma mill Greenwich University.

That diploma mill - Certainly I own it.