I was about to post the same quote. I'm pretty skeptical of this claim until I see real data rather than the estimation of someone who has some skin in the game (he's written a book on diploma mills). It seems to me he could be making scary sounding claims to encourage sales of his book.
Given how easy it is to verify this (without even getting into systems for verifying student/attendance/graduation records), I am skeptical that this is a real problem in the field of Engineering.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 31.6 ms ] threadThere appears to be no data to support the title' s claim. The text mentions,
> Ewell estimates half of new PhDs issued every year in the U.S. are fake.
You can search for American programs by name/state/institution here: http://main.abet.org/aps/accreditedprogramsearch.aspx
Given how easy it is to verify this (without even getting into systems for verifying student/attendance/graduation records), I am skeptical that this is a real problem in the field of Engineering.