Comment by geysersam
10 months ago
In what way does academia have monopoly on credentials?
You can start issuing your own credentials tomorrow.
10 months ago
In what way does academia have monopoly on credentials?
You can start issuing your own credentials tomorrow.
I don't know where you live, but in the "developed" parts of the world this is illegal. There will either be some government agency or some council of credential-giving institutions and they will give you a license to issue degrees, or most likely they will not give it to you.
In the US, you can just make up degrees — but you have to be honest that you’re unaccredited.
Accreditation is regulated by NGOs who need government approval and without that you cant received financial aid (or participate in some programs) — but you can hand out pieces of paper for completing your program.
https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/higher-education-laws-and...
There are accreditation bodies. So I don’t think your self-proclaimed engineering degree is going to help you get a job or a professional engineering license like one from an ABET accredited school.