The Department of Education unveiled a Web site on Tuesday that federal officials hope will be a reliable tool for helping students avoid online diploma mills. The site provides a searchable list of ...

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Rumors about a possible sale of Apollo Education Group at $1 billion caused its stock to gain around 14% over the last week. The company operates in a declining industry, and regulators have made it ...

Overseas universities offering honorary doctorate degrees may seem appealing, but it's vital to verify their accreditation ...

Thurston County prosecutors won't file criminal charges against 10 state troopers investigated for questionable online college diplomas they obtained to qualify for higher salaries. In each case, the ...

Not all online degrees are created equally. They range from “have your credit card ready” to “Your diploma will arrive within 30 days of payment” to being accredited by fake agencies. Then there are ...

Get a life. Earn a college degree. Oh, and add a couple zeros on that check, please. It takes lots of cash to run the mill. That would be an Internet diploma mill, the academic equivalent of the ...

An Arizona man has admitted to bribing three Liberian diplomats between 2002 and 2004 to arrange for Liberia’s accreditation of Saint Regis University, a Washington state-based “diploma mill” that ...

CHEYENNE - If the Wyoming Department of Education wants to remove the state's image as a haven for diploma mills, it apparently will have to take action on its own. Earlier this month the Joint ...

Mississippi officials now have a new weapon with which to crack down on the state’s large population of diploma mills. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, last month ...

(CBS News) An alleged diploma mill that collected more than $11 million from consumers who thought they were getting a usable high school diploma was shut down by a federal judge at the request of the ...

Former Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg claimed university degrees from a discredited diploma mill, and he made thousands of dollars, on taxpayer time, for outside speeches related to the Oct. 1 ...