>However, it's in the university's interest to make sure the students it confers the degrees upon are have met the bar to be qualified to recieve it. Absolutel

>However, it's in the university's interest to make sure the students it confers the degrees upon are have met the bar to be qualified to recieve it. Absolutely correct. Unfortunately that ship has sailed a log time ago. When I was in college in the 1990s, the program was laid out where you could learn a hell of a lot and get a great base of knowledge. You could also do just enough to get a C without really learning much. C's get degrees as we used to say. Another thing is when I was in school, cheating would get you expelled, so there was a pretty good deterrent. >Otherwise, they risk losing accreditation for the program (ABET, etc.). Part of your job, or the university's job, is to provide that evaluation. Whether or not that accreditation matters at all is another question... I haven't been paying attention, but I don't recall any state schools losing accreditation. Based on the number of candidates I get with degrees that don't know shit, this should be more common. It's definitely degraded the value of the paper, which sucks because I worked hard to get that paper.