Originally Posted by
TheDashRocks
. Would I pay $500 for an accredited degree based on life experience and spend 2000 hours on something else? You bet!
I can dump in a box and mark it accredited if you want. Who is doing the accreditation?
Here is a description of the accreditation for the International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities which is the body that deemed Belford as "accredited."
The
International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU) is a self-styled "accreditation" board based in the
United States. It has no status with the
United States Department of Education (USDE) or the
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
[1] Without USDE and CHEA recognition, its "accreditations" are essentially meaningless.
[2]
The
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has indicated that
Rochville University and
Belford University, and the agencies from which they claim accreditation, "appear to be operated by the same people
The point is you dismiss those who spent too much money on a university degree and we should have gone the easy way and just bought one. Thos of us with REAL degrees worked hard for these degrees and do not deserve to have them compared with this joke of a "university" or "experience degree."