Guidelines That Will Help In Identifying a Fake Online College with Fake Degree

Posted by Carla Bruni
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Oct 18, 2011
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The World Wide Web is a great source of information. You can be connected with your friends & relatives, shop for different things, do research, and you can even get an online college degree. With the arrival of technology, everything appears to be just a couple of clicks away. However, the internet is not only a source of facts; it is filled with scams also.


If you do a search about online colleges on Google, you will certainly find lots of fake online colleges, claiming you to deliver big dreams. Now a question arises that how could you identify an illegal online college?


There are just two methods these fake colleges would market themselves. They can deliberately proclaim that they’re providing bogus college degrees, whereas there are others that would pretend to have genuine academic background & make fool of people. Here in this article you are provided with few guidelines that will help you in overcoming this problem:


·         Ask questions. It is a common belief to never question a college, however while making a deal with the online colleges, it is essential to ask questions regarding the offered courses, management, etc. to have an idea concerning its credibility.


·         They don’t need anything else except information of credit card. Online colleges need high school transcription, academic record from earlier academic institute & test scores. It is possible you’re having a deal with fake bodies if the only thing is the money over which they are focused.


·         Investigate the certification of the online college in your questions. Although they are claiming that they are certified, don’t get relax till you are totally satisfied with their accreditation. Many times they would claim accreditation; on the other hand they don’t belong to a recognized agency such as U.S. Department of Education & Council of Higher Education Accreditation.



·         The online college in question holds several complaints registered against them. You can check your local state government if they possess the lists of unrecognized colleges.



Online college degrees are produced by college institutions to answer or cater to the requirements of employed, disabled & single students. But, even though they’re online courses, it doesn’t signify that they can be swiftly finished deprived of sweating a bit. Presently the U.S. government hasn’t federal or national requirement that online colleges be accredited & recognized by a particular organization. Staying alert is very important.

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