Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university’s program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a list of several such cats.
Colby Nolan is a housecat who was awarded an MBA degree in 2004 by Trinity Southern University, a Dallas, Texas-based diploma mill, sparking a fraud lawsuit by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office.[1]…
Ben Goldacre, a UK-based science journalist, obtained a diploma in nutrition from the American Association of Nutritional Consultants for his dead cat, Henrietta, while investigating allegations about fake qualifications.[5]
List of cats with fraudulent diplomas
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
(Image: Count the cats!, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike photo from Eva 101’s Flickr stream)