Rochville University

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http://www.affordabledegrees.com
ALERT: No Refunds or Returns

General Information:
Website: http://www.rochvilleuniversity.com

Email Address:
Founded in ???? 2003
Phone Number: None listed

Degrees offered:
Associate Degrees, Bachelor Degrees, Master Degrees, Doctorate and High School Diploma.

Privacy and Security:
Rochville University does have a privacy statement listed on the home page of their website. For the protection of the consumer, we feel that all websites should have a privacy statement located on the home page of the website. The privacy statement informs the consumer about the data they collect from you and what they intend to do with the collected data. The big question is "How secure is your data?" Rochville University is not using secure application forms, nor are they using Verisign Validation. Rochville received 2 out of 5 stars for Privacy and Security.

Also Know as:

Warning - Rochville University is also know as the following sites:
Affordable Degrees
Belford University
Online-Education-Facts-Online.com
Degreeagency.com
Speedy-Degrees.com
University-College.com

At a Glance from the Editor:

After reviewing Rochville University, it is clear to us that Rochville University, Speedy Degrees (Ashwood University) and Affordable Degrees (Rochville University) are most likely the same company or managed by the same company. The fact that all three of the schools are using the same unsecured application form did not help us think any differently.

I have e-mailed this university on three separate ocasions and have not received a reply to any of my questions. Caution is urged when dealing with this university. Lack of a telephone number and poor e-mail response would make it impossible to resolve any issues or concerns you or your employer may have regarding your degree.

Affordable Degrees website did not have the feel of a college or university website, but felt like a marketing piece trying to sell books to you on how to market on the Internet.

In addition concerning their website, we did not find any information on their home page in reference to resources or information available to their Alumni. We feel that this is a very important service to offer Alumni. Offering life experience degrees and a way for employers to validate the degree is just not enough resources offered to Alumni.

Because we feel they are using three websites at 3 different pricing points and the same basic shell. We cannot place any confidence in the degree you receive from this school will be Credible to future employer inquiries.

More information about Rochville submitted by a reader.

The Rochville Sabotage

If you ever had a problem getting your Life Experience Degree accepted by an employer or another university, you can blame Rochville and its conglomeration of "schools." This conglomeration was the fly in the ointment.

In the early to mid-1990s, there were only a few Internet schools offering Life Experience Degrees. One of the major players at that time was Trinity College and University. Trinity later changed their name to Brontë International University in an agreement with Trinity of Texas. Trinity, and later Brontë, was the main player on the Internet offering life experience degrees. They were remotely affiliated with Capital University which operated from Belgium.

These schools offered genuine online courses in addition to Life Experience Degrees. But, in order to maintain credibility, there was significant detail and documentation required to earn a life experience degree from one of these schools. Approximately 80% to 90% of all applicants were either denied acceptance or required to provide additional and thorough documentation. Furthermore, all students were required to provide an admissions essay and master degree level students or higher required theses or dissertations for acceptance. The fee for the Life Experience Degree was in the $700 range and most of that fee was justified based on the amount of review that went into the determination of each student's qualifications.

In the early 2000's a few new players entered the market: Almeda University, Breyer State, and the Suffield group (Suffield University, Glendale University, and Redding University). These universities all offered Life Experience Degrees and all required significant documentation of experience. Almeda and Bryer State appeared to have rigid approval criteria. The Suffield group seemed slightly more arbitrary in their approval requirements, yet still maintained integrity with specific qualifications and requirements necessary for degrees offered.

Around 2004, Rochville began to show its ugly head. This conglomeration born in Saudi Arabia and operated mostly from Pakistan took over the top search engine positions with their vast financial resources and marketing skill. Suddenly a web search for Brontë or Trinity, Bryer, Almeda, or Suffield would result in being directed to one of the Rochville websites.

But Rochville's marketing skill was not the problem with Rochville. They came into the market underpricing all the competitors and issuing degrees to anyone that could pay. Neither Rochville nor Belford nor any of its other clones have ever required documentation of life experiences -- even though they pretend to on their websites. Additionally their schools pretend to offer traditional education, yet there is no such place.

Suddenly, by 2005, Brontë, Almeda, Bryer State, and the Suffield group all got lumped into the same category as the Rochville conglomeration. That meant that the Rochville degree was beginning to gain more and more acceptance, and the more legitimate degrees were being seen as less valuable.

Additionally, hundreds of thousands of new graduates appeared in the marketplace with degrees from Rochville and its clones. Often times these graduates were only 17 or 18 years of age and had not even completed high school. On a side note, one of the Rochville clones even offered fake high school diplomas which became a legal issue and would have closed down Rochville had Rochville been operating from the USA.

With the job market suddenly flooded with utterly unqualified graduates from Rochville schools, employers began calling their state representatives and soon afterwards, the state of Oregon decided to disallow degrees from all non-regionally accredited schools.

So while graduates from Brontë, Almeda, Bryer State, and the Suffield schools all were qualified to do their jobs, the Rochville graduates, who had no experience whatsoever, were finding themselves accepting jobs for which they were not qualified. That was the beginning of the effort to disallow all non-regionally accredited degrees from being accepted for public funded employment.

In 2005, Brontë University finally shut its doors. They could no longer compete. They refused to succumb to the underhanded business practices of the Rochville conglomeration. Those people who are fortunate enough to still hold a degree from Trinity College and University or Brontë University should know that their degree acceptance was based on thorough evaluations of their skills, abilities and qualifications.

The Rochville conglomeration began to proliferate after 2005 and soon had over 100 websites. Unlike Almeda, Breyer State, and the Suffield group, the Rochville conglomeration does not need to adhere to any particular set of standards. They are located either in Pakistan or Dubai. While it appears that all of their packages are shipped from the UAE, their customer service and e-mail responses come from IP addresses in Pakistan. Either way, they are completely isolated and protected from any laws of the United States.

When the conglomeration decided to create a fake high school called Belford High, the Internet site got shut down after 2 1/2 years of government intervention. It was estimated that nearly 250,000 students received their high school degree from Belford. These degrees were absolutely useless and have not been accepted anywhere, yet the lawsuits against Belford have gone awry because; once again, they are not based in the USA.

The Rochville conglomeration which now includes Belford, Hill University, Lorenz University, and Corllins University has 90% of the market for students seeking life experience degrees. Based on this information, it appears that over $40 million a year is going to this UAE conglomeration.

Sadly, the Rochville conglomeration has never attempted to legitimize. Whenever one of its schools starts to get negative press or publicity, they clone themselves into another name and create new and fake accreditation agencies with their own marketing websites to give false information about the value of their degree product.

The Rochville conglomeration has single-handedly taken the "Life Experience" out of the "Life Experience Degree".

If you currently hold a degree from Almeda or one of the Suffield schools you can be assured that your application was evaluated and you got what you paid for. But if you are having trouble with its acceptance, you can blame the Rochville conglomeration. While these degrees still have value, is decreasing rapidly and Rochville does not care, nor will they do anything about it. They have attempted, and continue to attempt to put the other schools completely out of business. Additionally, the Rochville clones still issue degrees to anybody that can pay regardless of their qualifications.

As the Rochville conglomeration continues to issue degrees to unqualified applicants, they continue to make it more and more difficult for it those who hold a degree from Brontë, Bryer State, Almeda, or one of the Suffield schools. There seems to be no end in sight, and as the economy worsens, the $99 degree issued by some of Rochville's clones becomes more and more appealing.
 
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