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The main source of data on international education expenditure is UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics . The same data is also then published by the World Bank and Gapminder. It is also the main source of education data for most UN reports – such as the EFA Global Monitoring Report , the Human Development Report , the State of the World’s Children report and the Millennium Development Goals .

The demand for fraudulent diplomas comes from a much wider range of aspiring professionals now than in the patent-medicine era – as the example of Pete, the canine MBA, may suggest. The most general social-scientific study of the problem seems to be “An Introduction to the Economics of Fake Degrees,” published in the Journal of Economic Issues in 2008. Stories about colleges in New York and North Dakota highlight the lack of independent authority overseeing the quality of universities’ efforts abroad. Newly launched Cambridge Graduate University has an impressive list of faculty members. Schools with names that are close to–but not quite–popular school names are to be avoided. Students should be able to request meetings with professors, either in person, over the phone or via video chat.

However, these accrediting agencies are just as phony as the schools they claim to accredit. Thesebogus accrediting agencies—also known as accreditation mills—typically have prestigious sounding names. They often claim to be “worldwide” or “international” agencies and therefore superior to any single agency operating in the United States. Check the Diploma Mill Police’s list of suspicious schools for scam reports and details on the real accreditation status of any online college. Most, but not all, universities and colleges in the People's Republic of China are public institutions. The Ministry of Education, which has legal authority to regulate college enrollment and degree awarding, publishes a yearly list of qualified higher-education institutions.