A degree from an unaccredited school has the exact same value as if you printed your own diploma – put another way it has the same value as a blank piece of paper. It wouldn’t make any sense to go to an unaccredited school, since there are so many legit schools that offer online or even correspondence programs. Think of it this way: If you are just looking for knowledge, wouldn’t it be much cheaper to just buy text books from Amazon and teach yourself? This way you would never have to explain why you chose a diploma mill over a legit school.

Most unaccredited schools are diploma mills. In order for a school to become accredited it has to open itself up to an accrediting agency and have its programs, practices and so on reviewed. So, if a school’s not accredited, that indicates that either it was not willing to open itself to review or its programs were not of sufficient value to be accredited.

In America there are two types of accreditation: regional and national. Regional accreditation is the highest level a school can achieve and with so many options available to you, there’s no valid reason why you should choose anything less than a regionally accredited school – even Harvard University has programs online now.

“Federal Employees have Obtained Degrees from Diploma Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense.”

“Diploma Mills are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense.”

“Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations: Are Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Diploma Mills?”

“It May Take Hours, But You Too Can Earn a University Degree”

Will it be challenging? – In one of the articles, a person testified that she was able to get 40% of her master’s degree in 16 hours. The “university” waived a bunch of classes and a graduate “course” consisted of one open book exam.

Also, you will not be able to get federal financial aid through them, which will cost you more money.

Also, think about it, would they put something on their web site that was negative? The idea is to sell the school as a good place to get an education…so why put something negative?

It sounds like it would be challenging, but you probably owuld not be able to get a good job, because the education is not approved by the Department of Education.