With admission season just around the corner, lakhs of students and parents will line up outside colleges and universities to get admission.

But of late, there’s been fear about a huge number of colleges across the country that were found to be offering bogus degrees or the college to be fake.

When students like you think about their dream of studying abroad they tend to forget about important things and due to their lesser focus on other areas they get betrayed by fake universities operating abroad.

Recently, a university was shut down on the grounds of absence of proper accreditation and this is an alarm for Indians and students from other nations to be careful about identifying fake universities.

For students aspiring for to study abroad, the most important process involves selection of the right university and it is generally a time consuming process.

Getting into a good school or university or college can surely enhance the chances of succeeding in the future with respect to acquiring knowledge, career prospects and getting lucrative job opportunities as well.

If a wrong selection is made, there is a huge chance of your career coming to a stake. In those days fake universities or colleges were known only in their respective geographical areas. But today, the great tool called internet has transformed the way in which education is turning out to be a business all over the world.

This development of the internet world has made the dodgy operators to move swiftly and easily into the virtual world.

Here are a few guidelines to check for distinctive faux universities abroad:

• Start with an internet search to see the kind of press coverage about the college or university.
• In case the college doesn’t have a website in the first place, then it is better not to take admission in that particular college / university.
• Make sure that the college or institute has prominently displayed affiliation and accreditation in its website. If they have nothing to hide, they wouldn’t hide this. It’s that simple.
• Apart from checking for the accreditation in the universities website. You need to check in the respective websites too.

For instance if you are planning to study medicine in Caribbean Island. There are several universities like Texila American University and more. These universities should be recognized by National Accreditation Council of Guyana, Listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools (WDOMS), and Approved by Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and Recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI).

The most important factor is check for the MCI pass ratio.