… (pronounced embolize), is UD‘s term for the tendency of some MBA programs to lie about their job placement numbers.
An ethics complaint made to [the University of Florida] alleged that Warrington College of Business Administration officials manipulated data on the [2009] job placement of program graduates.
A higher percentage of graduates were reported as being employed in order to maintain the program’s ranking in U.S. News’ annual guide to graduate schools…
The school admits the numbers were madly inflated, but denies lying. It was just “inexperience” or something.
Fudging is very much the way at UF. Take this statement from the Distance Learning page on the business school’s website:
Studies have shown that there is no significant difference in the learning outcomes experienced by students in a traditional classroom versus those in a distance learning situation.
Footnote? Wanna source that? Why not?