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Are these actually accredited degrees once obtained?

I don’t know what kind of a Ph.D. you are thinking of getting, but I can tell you that in the academic world, if you are thinking of becoming a professor, no self-respecting university would ever hire a Ph.D. from one of these, or frankly, any other online program. There is absolutely no equivalence to an in-person Ph.D. program. The faculty are generally completely unqualified to teach at that level. I would urge you to run before putting any money down on any such program.

Degrees, by the way, are not accredited. It is the organizations themselves which are accredited. Unfortunately, these days, everyone claims to be accredited, because there are all kinds of phony accrediting organizations out there. I looked on all three websites, and while I couldn’t find any evidence that Argosy was accredited, the other two are accredited by the North Central Association. Interestingly, that is a legitimate accrediting organization, but what they are accrediting is that the school lives up to its mission and spends its money accordingly. Accreditation of the whole university does not mean that they do a good job of teaching a specific subject matter. In business, for example, you would need to see accreditation by someone like AACSB (or in a pinch ACBSP) to say that anyone had any oversight of program quality, in addition to the accreditation for the whole university. They don’t have that. No purely distance-learning school does. U of P has applied to start the accreditation process, but as I understand it, has not been approved.

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