US diploma mills: Scamming the Third World.

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http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20100614163816.aspx

Dodgy US MBAs offered to English-illiterate students
Last updated: 6/14/2010 16:30

A vocational school in Ho Chi Minh City is offering students MBA degrees from an American university without having to learn a single word of English.

Thanh Phuong from the Academic Affairs Department at Hong Ha Economics and Technology Intermediate School said the school offered Master of Business Administration courses from Southwest American University, an online school based in Buena Park, California.

Academic certificates and degrees earned at Hong Ha are ranked lower than college-level degrees.

Phuong said students don’t need to have good English to get into the program.

She said lecturers are foreigners with doctoral degrees who speak in English and use interpreters to teach.

“And you don’t have to worry about the final theses as we have samples you can use… And you can also write in Vietnamese and have the paper translated.”

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[TheDebbieDee]

1. Some of these diploma mills are scamming first world students, too.

I see lots of commercials for institutes that offer credentials for dental assistants or medical records specialists. A prospective student that doesn't do their homework won't figure out that the starting salaries for these positions aren't as high as they think until after they've borrowed $15,000 to enroll.

[SocialistLez]

2. Agreed.

I don't see why a lot of these students don't go to a community college. It's a hell of a lot cheaper.

Around here, community colleges are very willing to work with working students.