Don't misrepresent where you went to school.

[sanantone]

I’m fully on board when this forum states most degrees are a checkbox and employers don’t generally care where a degree is from, but when people start pointing at the non competitive Harvard Extension School that even Harvard itself intentionally distances itself from and starts pretending it is in anyway similar to the prestige of the traditional Harvard schools, it’s a big blow to the credibility of this forum and the judgement displayed.

The courses are open enrollment, but the admissions process and attrition rate suggest the program is anything but non-competitive. How you value the prestige of the school is entirely subjective. For me, HES gives me a chance to study finance and real estate from Harvard faculty and receive alumni status at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. I'm self employed, so the real value is in the knowledge obtained from the program. The Harvard diploma hanging on the wall will certainly be a big bonus though.

Well, for-profit colleges and CCs also have terrible attrition rates, but they don't receive praise for it. It indicates that thousands of unprepared students wasted thousands on a credential they'll never receive. 

Back on the topic of ignorance, this guy who used to be on this forum assumed that my doctoral program didn't require the GRE and that the graduates would have a tough time finding employment. He was assuming all of this because Texas State is not in the world rankings. Due to his refusal to educate himself on the topic, he didn't know that almost all of the graduates secured tenure-track positions within a year or two of graduating. He also didn't know that we have two professors who are practically international celebrities in the world of criminology. Now, this relatively new doctoral program is ranked #29.

My point is that you need to go beyond overall rankings to find the best faculty in a particular field. I didn't need to attend an Ivy League school to study under world-renowned faculty.