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A diploma mill or degree mill is a business that sells illegitimate diplomas or academic degrees, respectively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term diploma mill is also used pejoratively to describe any educational institution with low standards for admission and graduation, low career placement rate, or low average starting salaries of its graduates.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office investigations revealed the relative ease with which a diploma mill can be created and bogus degrees obtained. [51] Records obtained from schools and agencies likely understate the extent to which the federal government has paid for degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited schools.
Some unaccredited institutions are fraudulent diploma mills. [3] Other institutions (for example, a number of Bible colleges and seminaries) choose not to participate in the accreditation process because they view it as an infringement of their religious, academic, or political freedom. [ 4 ]
By Anne Gearan WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration wants to trademark the term "GI Bill" in an effort to shield veterans and military families being swindled or misled by schools that target ...
Operation Dipscam was a series of separate investigations [1] conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), [2] the General Accountability Office, [3] the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and other United States agencies from 1980 to 1991. It led to more than 20 convictions [1] and the closing of 39 diploma mills. [4]
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Implicit in the terminology is the assumption that the "mill" has low standards (or no standards) for such accreditation. Accreditation mills are much like diploma mills, and in many cases are closely associated with diploma mills. The "accreditation" they supply has no legal or academic value but is used in diploma mill marketing to help ...