Randall Flagg Wrote:There are thousands of unrecognized colleges in the U.S. They give themselves all sorts of names. If someone is basing a choice or giving acceptance, based on the name of an unknown college, they are nuts.
Mountain State College is an accredited college and I doubt many HRM's have ever heard of it. If they accept it based on the name, too bad, that's their problem. Lazy HRM's can't blame the school for their lack of effort and knowledge. If someone wants to know what a college is or isn't, they should check.
Basically I agree with you.
There are some smart advertisement scams and services that plug in your university once you run a search on Google or Yahoo etc.
Name selection with having State in it can cause your university to be included among the listings of State universities in search engine etc.
If I ran a business and had web presence I would select a name that can appear among Harvard's etc.
How about this name "Top Tier University ":-) or "Best State University"
Just kidding
On a positive note Breyer site states that their accrediting agency is not recognized by USDE even if later down they state they are accredited.
And they are but by possibly agency created by themselves to accredit themselves for purpose to appear legitimate and be able to say we are accredited.