Illustrating how deep-rooted corruption is in India’s higher-education system, the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur has been embarrassed by allegations that an aerospace-engineering professor was using its name and the facilities to run an unauthorized institute, The Hindustan Times reports. The professor, Amit Kumar Ghosh, allegedly ran an institute called the Institute of Electrical Engineers on campus, called himself its president, charged around $400 per course, and awarded diplomas that carried the false claim that students’ graduations had been recommended by the “Board of the Governors of the faculty of IIT Kharagpur,” a body that doesn’t exist. “For the Indian Institutes of Technology, these allegations are a massive embarrassment,” a senior city official told the newspaper. “We believed the institute was genuine because of the association of Professor Ghosh with it,” says a complaint letter signed by 22 students. The police and the institute are investigating the allegations.