Edgewood College/UpGrad DBA; potentially $11,250

[JPN]

You can pull up Facebook ads for a page in Facebook Ad Library: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?ac...0613318388

If you go to the About Section, you'll see that they have 32 page admins, 16 from the USA and 16 from India, so it seems like Upgrad has taken over partial control over the Facebook page.

[armado]

anyone aware that they are stop partnership with SSBM ?

[GameSlinger]

Il talk about Edgewood College, regarding UpGrad's side of things i can not comment. The College has everything in order, https://www.chea.org/edgewood-college this is a good overview of what's what since the College page does not reveal a lot of things (at least to me).
The German National repository for degree lists the Institution with +H (best score) , the degrees from it would be recognized in Germany. (and in any ENIC-NARIC network)  
The only thing i do not get is why in WES degree-equivalency-tool does not have the Institution listed, but maybe someone from US can explain what i am missing here.
The College is from the looks of it established by Dominicans, Catholic mendicant order.

The college has everything in order for the MBA portion according to CHEA, but they do not list the DBA.

[Harry101]

@JPN today i learned something, thx for that.

@GameSlinger
"The college has everything in order for the MBA portion according to CHEA, but they do not list the DBA."
- To me this falls under the Upgrad part of the program, since the College is more know for Ed.D Doctorates.

@armado - Yes for some months. But they brought a new Diploma mill from Swiss going by the name of Rushford Business School. I am seeing a patter here.

[jch]

The college has everything in order for the MBA portion according to CHEA, but they do not list the DBA.

I find this part weird and concerning. How and why is UpGrad advertising a specific DBA program when there's no other evidence that it exists and is even authorized?

[freeloader]

The college has everything in order for the MBA portion according to CHEA, but they do not list the DBA.

I find this part weird and concerning. How and why is UpGrad advertising a specific DBA program when there's no other evidence that it exists and is even authorized?

Yeah, that’s concerning. I looked up the school on the ACBSP webpage and it lists them as a bachelor’s/master’s institution. That’s concerning as well.

[eLearner]

The best thing to do in order to know for sure what's going on is check with Edgewood's accreditor (The HLC). I can say from looking at the HLC website, Edgewood offers 4 Doctorates: Ed Leadership (with 4 specs), Education, Ed Leadership (no specs), and Nursing. No DBA.

Schools in the United States are required to have their degree programs approved by their accreditors before they can offer them anywhere on earth, so if this is being done without the HLC's okay, big trouble is on the horizon. Edgewood has been around a long time, but that doesn't mean they can't make a mistake.

As for UpGrad, this sticks out like a sore thumb:

"WES Accredited: WES takes all programs to a US equivalency - as all programs are within the US they are already WES equivalent."

I think they're trying to convey to people outside the U.S. that there won't be a problem with WES, but just didn't word it in the best way.

[Harry101]

Every raising concern i've read so far are related cause what they read on UpGrad's website regarding the program.

People need to get in touch with Edgewood and ask questions like "how will the diploma look like, will it say Upgrad?", "is this a DBA, by who is it approved?" , "is there a third entity delivering this program?" = which they do to cut cost in each partnership, not a good sign. Then get in touch with the evaluator you intend to use this degree and see what they have to say.

These are very important question, and look at them as entry level part of your DBA research/journey.

[datby98]

There is a sentence on the UpG webpage:
The DBA program is currently in candidacy with ACBSP for accreditation and is pending HLC accreditation.

[bjcheung77]

There is a sentence on the UpG webpage:
The DBA program is currently in candidacy with ACBSP for accreditation and is pending HLC accreditation.

Hmm, that's an interesting turn of events... Even though they're candidacy, it's now up to the student to decide to take some courses while they're in candidacy state and graduate when they actually get ACBSP & RA, or go elsewhere that they know is slightly more expensive but already RA or has ACBSP as well.