Harvard Extension School

[siserune]

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According to the program’s website, I can graduate with a Masters from Harvard through the distance program. The website says there is no difference on my transcripts showing whether I attended the on-campus or off-campus program.

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<p>The web site is pretty much a scam built on the knowledge that many potential customers will confuse Harvard Extension School with Harvard College (the undergrad degree) and the competitive-admission graduate programs. Clicking on the link, I made it as far as the following statement: </p>

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@Harvard Extension School website

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<p>At Harvard Extension School, we bring Harvard academics to the public through evening and online courses, and part-time programs.

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<p>They do bring (that is, sell) some form of “academics” to the public, but it has only a passing relation to what anyone else would call “Harvard academics”, such as regular Harvard professors (not adjuncts and high school teachers and non-PhD’s) teaching more than a tiny fraction of the courses, or the evening and online courses being equivalent to the daytime versions.</p>

<p>Harvard Extension school is fine on its own merits as a collection of academic programs. It is the Extension School’s advertising that has long been dishonest, and the application requirements for some HES programs amount to a good old-fashioned illegal scam that is ripe for a takedown by the state Attorney General.</p>