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Opinion: The Problem With Deceptive Degree Aggregators In The Search For Online Courses & Degrees
Degree aggregators such as OnlineClasses.net, eLearners.com,Online Certificate Programs, or DegreeSearch.org are all the same, really. They present as if they are going to search the Net for all possibilities, but that’s not the case at all; they search their own databases that are filled with information from their partnership schools
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