June 25, 2004

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar World of Diploma Mills

By THOMAS BARTLETT and SCOTT SMALLWOOD

DEGREES OF SUSPICIONThe business is booming like never before, and some of its customers are college professors

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Alan Contreras, one of the few government officials fighting diploma mills, on what legitimate colleges should do about them.

In this report:

Article: Professors With Bogus Degrees

Article: What's a Diploma Mill?

Multimedia: An interactive graphic