Article bashes Harvard Extension ALM Grad

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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.