This guide narrows down the field to 100 of the best accredited distance-learning providers in the world -- and sums up the latest trends and the best opportunities in the fastest growing area of education today.

Provides contact information for 100 schools specializing in distance learning using mail, email, or the Internet.

Today the Internet offers many possibilities including education facilities and has taken distance learning to new heights. You really can earn a fully accredited degree - undergraduate or graduate - in a wide range of fields without ever leaving your home. This edition has been fully updated to continue to help people to get the degree they always wished for in the new millennium.

The essential reference to alternative education, this book covers it all: night and weekend colleges, foreign medical schools, degress by Internet and other e-mail avenues, and basically every other way of earning a Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, law, or medical degree through some unconventional method.

When the first edition of Degree Mills was published, fake universities and counterfeit degrees were already a significant problem. Fueled by the Internet, this scam continues to grow—now more than half of all people claiming a new PhD in fact have a fake degree. In this updated edition, experts Allen Ezell and John Bear go beyond exposing these fraudulent practices to provide detailed recommendations—for government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals—on what can be done to rid us of them. This eye-opening and definitive guide shows how degree mills operate and how to check the validity of anyone’s degree—an indispensable reference book.