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Originally Posted by Saya
You know universities are accredited, right, and if you don't go to an accredited school that degree or diploma is pretty much useless?
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Accreditation today in the US applies more to transfer between schools than it does actual employment potential. All universities are NOT accredited, and accreditation is NOT required in order for a school to call itself a university. 50 years ago the term "University" carried prestige - today it's just a fancy title to make the school look/sound more appealing to potential customers - aka students.
Many universities are only regionally accredited, if at all, very few nationally or internationally, and accreditation is granted entirely by
private accreditation organizations, not the local or federal government. Further, even regional accreditation does not guarantee your credits will be accepted or recognized by another school in the same region. It entirely depends on the school you're transferring to as to whether or not their review board accepts your transfer credits - read: how much tuition they want to soak you for. Because when it's all said and done, colleges/universities are nothing more than an industry - one of the largest industries in this country, possibly THE largest - and their first priority is making money. "Student Advisers" are little more than sales reps that are trained to tell you whatever it takes to get you to sign loan papers.
That's why it's so important to research the school you're wanting to attend, AND the potential job market for the degree you're pursuing. A business degree from Phoenix University or DeVry University is by no means the same as a business degree from Harvard or UCLA or even UCF. And even then, the Harvard of 2012 is a far cry from the Harvard of 1912.
As for degrees or diplomas being "useless", it really depends on the degree/diploma and who the employer is that's looking at it at the moment. And in this economy, it really doesn't matter where your degree comes from, because the chances of a college grad finding work right now are pretty damned slim, considering nearly 30% of recent college grads are unemployed or barely employed in the US (last I checked - it may be higher than 30% now) and we just broke the $1-trillion mark on defaulted federal student loans in the last couple months.
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Originally Posted by Saya
Also, good luck shooting drones down with your handgun!
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This just doesn't even make any sense. I wasn't talking about Obama's robot planes, or shooting anything down.