Why does Devry get lumped in with other fake online degree mills?

Question

I have a couple friends that go to Devry, 1 for undergrad, and 1 for a masters. They both attend class in person, NOT online, have real professors (1 accounting professor is a CFO for publicly traded company, and an IT professor was director of IT, etc.), They take written exams and do real course work like projects/assignments/end of chapter problems. I've seen examples of both of their work and it doesn't look "fake" or "online only" at all.

Devry/Keller is regionally accredited like many other "traditional"schools. The only knock on them I can see is that they don't have specific program accreditation (AACSB for example).

I'm thinking about attending Keller Grad School (I have a "brick and mortar" 4 yr. B.S. degree), but all I hear is negative, and they get lumped in with University of Phoenix's bad rep. Do the people that trash these places actually have 1st hand experience or is it mostly generic rumor/speculation?

Don't say it "isn't accredited" b/c it is.

Thanks!

I've seen "TV commercials" for almost all universities, online and real, so that really isn't a valid argument, ones in the Big TEN, MAC, and from other athletic conferences too.

Answer 1

Be aware that UoP is regionally accredited too.

There are two camps out there that have a problem. One thinks that any school that operates as a "for profit" must be bad. These people think that it's somehow "wrong" for a school to operate as a business even though the non-profits and publics operate in about the same way.

The other group is a left-over from the relative dark ages of education when the only possible way for us to learn anything was to be told by someone who was told by someone who was.... These are the same people who though online shopping would never catch on and who still carry cash (and never use a card). They're just being a bit traditionalist.

Most of the people who speak badly of DL in general have never taken a legit DL class themselves. Most also think DL must be easier than traditional classes - those who have taken one know better.

There are still people who insist that attending State U isn't getting a "real education" -- only the elites and Ivy schools offer a "real education". We know that they're wrong.

The number of colleges teaching online and students taking courses online is growing exponentially. It's simply a matter of time until the naysayers are completely debunked.

As for some concerns written above; why wouldn't you want game designers to have a degree? It seems to me to be a very lucrative field. Or is it that you think all a game designer does is play games? That's probably more than a little narrow-minded.

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Answer 3

I think it's a combination of the amount of advertising and people's need to view their own credentials as prestigious. ("Maybe I didn't go to Harvard, but at least it's not [School X].")

Online schools are not necessarily fake -- many are regionally accredited and the degrees acceptable to employers.

Answer 4

I would guess that schools that have to draw students in by advertising on television just generally can't have too good of a reputation. There's just something really off-putting about that.

Answer 5

Because it is a fake school. I'm sorry but I'm never going to take a school seriously that has all those commercials talking about creating video games and offering free demos at "devrypowerup(insertnumber).com".