ACLAS: Is this even legal?

[DatPanther]

I took one for the team and did a degree program with ACLAS. It's a total cakewalk. I did the whole thing over a weekend when I got bored. It has modules that have a quiz at the end. I was able to pass all the quizzes without actually looking at the study materials. So yeah, just reporting a little extra info.

[openair]

I took one for the team and did a degree program with ACLAS. It's a total cakewalk. I did the whole thing over a weekend when I got bored. It has modules that have a quiz at the end. I was able to pass all the quizzes without actually looking at the study materials. So yeah, just reporting a little extra info.

You gave these guys $200 for the lame and illegally operated program? You could get an extended Coursera Plus subscription, or even donate the money to charity. We already knew that this program isn't serious, since that's not how any serious school operates.

[DatPanther]

I took one for the team and did a degree program with ACLAS. It's a total cakewalk. I did the whole thing over a weekend when I got bored. It has modules that have a quiz at the end. I was able to pass all the quizzes without actually looking at the study materials. So yeah, just reporting a little extra info.

You gave these guys $200 for the lame and illegally operated program? You could get an extended Coursera Plus subscription, or even donate the money to charity. We already knew that this program isn't serious, since that's not how any serious school operates.

I did what I wanted to do. I wanted to know about this.

[openair]

It's your money. You can direct it anywhere. However, don't be surprised if you receive pushback for paying an illegally operating education provider and claiming that you provided some kind of service for others ("took one for the team"). There is absolutely no need to financially support schools that are engaging in such activity. This is a school that is literally granting fake doctorate degrees. They have not received authorization to grant a single degree. You received one of those degrees, or were in the process of obtaining one.

[MichaelGates]

I took one for the team and did a degree program with ACLAS. It's a total cakewalk. I did the whole thing over a weekend when I got bored. It has modules that have a quiz at the end. I was able to pass all the quizzes without actually looking at the study materials. So yeah, just reporting a little extra info.

Good job. It is a valid method to verify if some school is indeed real or not, and then  share the results. More people lose money when someone does not step up and confirm the case. You follow in the footsteps of Dr. Pepper. 

Operation Dipscam took place in 1980. It was an investigation into diploma mills, and the specific incident involving Senator Claude Pepper, where he jokingly referred to himself as "Dr. Pepper," became part of the probe. Investigators purchased a fake Ph.D. diploma on his behalf from a California-based diploma mill to highlight the ease with which such fake degrees could be obtained.

[openair]

It all depends on the person. One type of individual learns that a school isn't granting its degrees legally. That's entirely sufficient to discourage them from pursuing degrees from the school. This person does not typically need any further investigation. Then there is another type of individual, generally someone who is already comfortable with earning degrees (even doctorates) from completely unaccredited schools. For a certain subset of this second group of individuals, even the lack of legal (country or state) degree-granting authorization does not bother them, so a school like ACLAS seems like a viable option, at least initially. Who's the audience for the subsequent investigation? I can only think of the second group, since ACLAS has already been exposed on this board as an institution which lacks legal backing for its degree-granting activity.

[cacoleman1983]

I took one for the team and did a degree program with ACLAS. It's a total cakewalk. I did the whole thing over a weekend when I got bored. It has modules that have a quiz at the end. I was able to pass all the quizzes without actually looking at the study materials. So yeah, just reporting a little extra info.

Would be nice if you could get the IEE evaluation so we can see how it would look.   It should come out as completion of professional training, continuing education or some similar wording based on the CPD-UK course certification.   It would be interesting to see rather or not the evaluation can be used towards a prior learning assessment (PLA) portfolio for college credit of some kind in an accredited program. Even better,  if some universities allow advanced standing or ABD status towards a DBA or some other Doctorate with the use of PLA from CPD-UK.   

If any evidence of this comes out for use of PLA,  then this program would be worth it. Otherwise, I would not recommend this with the lack of state-approval of ACLAS.

[Ares]

ACLAS is literally fraudulently claiming on their website that their "campus" is the Atlanta "A place for mom" nursing home which is miles away from the street address they list.

[Ares]

Hey look they deleted their Trustpilot account after I posted the only bad review despite them having 5 fake good reviews.

Nothing suspicious here. Good thing I am archiving all this.

Now the contact says the U.A.E.?

[ArshveerCheema]

I started this program last night and finished really quick. I applied for my degree, once I receive it, I'll submit it for IEE evaluation. I do have an actual use for this as after a long time, I logged into ENEB and accidentally did my ENEB exam when my Master's is still in-progress and I don't have a Bachelor's