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This seems too good to be true and I’m trying to figure out the catch.

The catch is your degree will be from “University of the People” which will send red flags to hiring managers who check. Hopefully one day this will be a normal thing, but it’s questionable whether your degree will signal what you want it to signal.

Graduates work in FAANG companies though, probably hiring managers comsider it trustworthy enough. Btw, what red flags do you mean?

> Btw, what red flags do you mean?

It looks like a lesser education. And it further makes it look like there’s something strange about you that made you pick it.

It's true. The current "catch" is that the school is nationally accredited. This means you can encounter some issue getting your degree recognized (e.g., some grad schools in the US will not consider nationally accredited degrees, some schools only accept their credits on a case-by-case basis, and so on).

However, if you know that going into it, you know the primary shortcoming. (Fortunately, I have a regionally accredited degree already, so I didn't care about that.)

Ah I see! I didn’t realize this accreditation distinction you’re making. My googling from here makes much more sense. Thanks.

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