ENEB Master Thread

[eLearner]

What they are selling is not a legit, accredited master's degree (let alone TWO of them) in the US.

And I said that if all you want is to learn a few things, you'd be better off taking free MOOCs than spending money on a "master's program" of unquestionably dubious quality. But if everyone wants to jump through hoops to try to turn it into something it's not JUST because it's cheap, have at it. An unaccredited $300 degree (sorry, two degrees...   )from Spain is of very little value in the US. In Europe, maybe.

I just find it amusing that people here question the legitimacy of a degree from the UK's Open University, while twisting themselves into a pretzel to make this a thing. If there's one thing all Groupon schools have in common, it's that they sell their programs for peanuts for a reason.

But what do you see as "hoops"? The evaluations? You would need that for any foreign degree if transferring or trying to get admitted into a higher degree program, and what's interesting is that degrees from UK Gov recognized schools have gotten unfavorable evaluations, some far below what ENEB has gotten. SteveFoerster has pointed out the Heriot-Watt MBA that once got evaluated as an Associate degree, lol. None of the ENEB evaluations have returned a bad result like that and I think we can all agree that HW is far more prestigious than ENEB, and costs a lot more. So imagine spending all of that money at HW for an MBA only to have it evaluated as an Associate degree. Brutal.

ENEB wasn't always on Groupon nor did they charge so little, they once charged a lot more, about $8,000. But they made a business move to gain more exposure and bring in more funds. It's been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because they've certainly accomplished their main goal, but a curse because people use it against them. Thing is, we've had regionally accredited schools use Groupon before, like National Louis University and ASA College for example. ENEB worked out an arrangement to be on Amazon, too, there was a story written up about it some time ago, but it's only in Spain at the moment because they ship a physical package.

As a sidenote: ASA which has been known as a regionally accredited school is now using the Department of Education's updated "institutionally accredited" term.