Are diplomas from Liberty University worth the paper they're printed on?

[tenderfoot]

You tell me

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	Yes - believe it or not
	0 (0%)
	No - the place is a diploma mill and no employer on Earth should ever take you seriously
	12 (92%)
	Other - it's worthiness depends on the degree
	1 (8%)
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[Tink41]

1. Been researched to death about 7 months ago

True crime forum. Graduate from there currently awaiting trial for murder. Degree is worthless except in religious circles

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Parchment 📜 paper. Dead Sea Scrolls.

[underpants]

3. I've worked with a lot of Liberty people

Not directly on a daily basis but they are all over the place here.

I’ve met one ONE who was both a nice person and good at their job. One.

Liberty people have a serious righteousness about them. Nothing about them is remarkably impressive either. Nothing.

I have members of my family from Lynchburg and they have lots of stories about Jerry. No real dirt just his slimy lying ass stealing ways.

[phylny]

21. I live an hour from Lynchburg.

We used to have Liberty students rotate in and out of our clinic. It was like Stepford Wives Junior League.

Any university that has a creationism department and teaches that the world is 6,000 years old isn't a university.

[underpants]

24. I am triangulating on your position

I’m in Richmond. These people have a jerk attitude.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It does have regional accreditation, so I guess you could say its degrees are legit.

However, I might not respect the education of a person who got their degree there, especially in scientific fields.

[underpants]

11. Yes it does. It also has credibility through volume

Liberty people are everywhere around here. See my post above.

15 years ago no one took it seriously but because there are so many around now it’s like people are just used to them.

[msongs]

5. personally I would not hire a Lib U graduate. then again, I never hire people

who have that fish in their advertising

[awesomerwb1]

6. Slightly better

than Trump university

[Cirque du So-What]

7. From their website

Liberty University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees.

[Zambero]

8. Right up there with Trump University

Diploma and five bucks will get you a cop of coffee (sorry, no refills!)

[lpbk2713]

9. It's fine if your only ambition is to be a music director at a fundie church.

Other than that you wasted four years of your life and a lot of daddy's money.

[Dream Girl]

10. I said yes just for fun!😂

[brewens]

12. Jeopardy had a girl from Liberty on with two college guys one night a few months back.

Right off they had a religion category and I think she ran the table on that. I'm calling bullshit because what are the odds that would just happen to be up there that night? Maybe they had categories catering to the two guys majors, but if they did it wasn't obvious. I wondered if they did that for the kids on their college editions.

That was about all the wins she had the whole show though. Those guys smoked her the rest of the way! I was laughing by the time it was over. I'm not a bad trivia guy. I'm pretty sure i would have beat her too, even with her head start.

[Ron Green]

13. Libertine University. n/t

[appalachiablue]

23. +1 And how

[Stallion]

14. They've Racked up a 1.59 Billion Endowment in a Few Decades

which is pretty amazing. Evangelicals are throwing a lot of money for a "safe environment" for their poor little dears

[bottomofthehill]

15. A neighbor of ours went to Liberty

They are a nice family, the son got a lot of money to go to Liberty so he went. When he graduated, his father asked me if I could recommend his son for a job. I have known the son and his family for about 15 years so to me, it was an easy ask. The job was with a security company. The president of the company is also a friend and they saw the connection on linked in. When I recommended my friends son, the president of the company told me that they do not hire from Liberty. They do not have a level of confidence. I asked about Oral Roberts, Notre Dame, Boston College, Texas Christian. He said no problem with most but there are some religious based colleges that they are just uncomfortable with.

[phylny]

22. Our oldest daughter was offered a full ride to Liberty because of her

Lincoln-Douglas debate success in high school (state champion). She declined.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Diplomas to be now signed by Larry Flynt/Ted Haggard.

Diplomas to be now signed by Larry Flynt/Ted Haggard.

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. It depends

It's probably worth something if you become an evangelical pastor.

[Cadfael]

18. Depends on what paper it's printed on

If they print it on toilet paper it would be worth the paper it was printed on...

[jmowreader]

19. I have a small, amusing anecdote about the City of Lynchburg

In 2009, I met the owner of the Anheuser-Busch distributorship in Lynchburg. I brought him a truckload of beer, and while one of his guys was busy unloading it, I asked him if Jerry Falwell ever tried to get the place shut down.

"Of course he did," the beer man said, "lots of times. Finally I got pissed at him and went out there. Got right up in his face and told him, 'Reverend Falwell, beer is legal in the City of Lynchburg and the State of Virginia, and there's not a fucking thing you can do about it. Get the hell off my property and don't come back.' Never saw him again after that."

[aikoaiko]

20. FWIW. It is SACS accredited just like Emory or UVA.

[treestar]

25. i don't know

I would rather get the facts that just indulge in a prejudice that they are worthless. It depends on the courses and the quality of them.

Depends on the science departments. I imagine they could be accurate with only a few issues. They might not teach evolution. But how important is that in the whole? Any university's courses will not cover everything.