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How is the situation in America? Does an organization calling themselves a university and having a degree program with bachelor, master and doctor degrees mean they do science?

Many of the degrees sound rather pseudo-science to me, but I have no medical background. Is anyone checking this or is this a free market of degrees?

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Dr. Robert Rohde

@VictorVenema

No. Essentially anyone can call themselves a university and offer degrees. (It's stupid, I know.)

However, serious universities will be accredited by one or more standards organizations.

Organizations that have been certified in this way will be listed on the Department of Education website: ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home

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Gary

@VictorVenema

Is there a "free market" in medical degrees? (rhetorical).

There is a system that means science degrees are just that - degrees that are generally founded on scientific literature.

Compared to, for example, learning science subjects at school - science degrees are more about learning how to think like a scientist. And of course, work like a scientist - research.

Arguably, they should also teach that (more) at schools.

What is #science? It's not the subjects!

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Arthur Smith

@VictorVenema accreditation is a fairly high bar - good to catch the best institutions but maybe not everything that does science. One thing you might check is whether they are listed in #ROR, the organizational database for affiliations of publishing authors. ROR ids are listed in #wikidata entries for institutions.

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