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RE: Article bashes Harvard Extension ALM Grad - posabsolute - 12-25-2023
Responding to ThatBankDude:
The Harvard diploma is in Latin anyway so 99.9% of people cannot read it. There were many stories over the years of even some HR depts having issues with the degrees since you studied in "extension studies". Interestingly enough, graduate certificates don't have that problem, they are not in extension studies but the actual concentration...
But I agree with you; it should be enough to name the Extensions school distinctly, but it would be the only school doing so.. And then again, there are already a lot of stories of people saying I got a Master in Management at Harvard University, which, you know, defacto people will think you went to HBS, so it is misleading. I'm also guessing HBS is one of the main issue here, it's more internationally recognized, and the cost is astronomic, years ago a lot of Harvard professors used to teach at the extension school but almost none from HBS.
IMO this is all just a story of exclusivity, you used the back door and other schools don't want you to be thought of as one of their alumni. The last two extension deans tried unsuccessfully to change the degree name.
Certainly, it is a rabbit hole you can spend a couple of hours in
The blog I linked earlier has some interesting take on that.
RE: Article bashes Harvard Extension ALM Grad - Sagan - 09-29-2025
(03-16-2023, 03:52 PM)ss20ts Wrote:But they are. If you're an undergraduate, you attend Harvard College but receive your degree from Harvard University. If you go to Harvard Law, you receive your degree from Harvard University. And if you graduate from HES, you receive your degree from Harvard University.(03-15-2023, 01:53 AM)durain Wrote:(03-13-2023, 09:06 PM)smartdegree Wrote: They claim Christopher Rufo's Harvard ALM is "misleading". At this point, I honestly feel sad for Extension students constantly having to prove they are not fake Harvard students.Lesson learned. Description of Degree gained from certain university has to be exact.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170647/christopher-rufo-harvard-degree-misleading
.... degree from Harvard is not the same as a ....degree from Harvard extension school.
Similarly: ....degree from Purdue Global is not to be mentioned as... degree from Purdue.
Purdue Global definitely informs students that they are not graduates of Purdue. They belong to the same alumni association though which is kind of funny. I imagine HES also explains that they're not graduates of the infamous Harvard University.
A great argument against the "Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies - (Concentration" is one does not study "extension studies." It's dumb and an obvious artifice.