To answer JeyRo, this is part of the issue to me. PAU has bolstered its reputation by contracting with a Psychiatry department at a good school, Stanford. What business does a psychiatry department have offering a grad clinical psychology program? But, I digress. They've also paid a ton of money for big name people to give their program legitimacy. They are only able to do this on the backs of the highest tuition in the country, which is only possible via the broken student loan system, which is partially government subsidized. They are charging at nearly the theoretical limits for loans. There is no consideration, in my opinion, of the damage they were doing to their students' financial futures. I do see it as selling out and unethical for the faculty to accept. PAU has no resources, outside of what they are collecting in loans. They don't have any of the usual things that entice top faculty. The way they've done this is to get people that already have a name affiliation (e.g., Stanford) and throw a bunch of money at them with very little in additional work required. The model is terrible and financially exploitative in my opinion. You say they are grown adults, but many have very little understanding of money (clearly) so I see it as similar to usury. It's on a level of a con to me. PAU's board of directors came up with a nice scheme to get legitimacy via proxy (Stanford) and via transferring loan money to people to lend their name to PAU. The entire situations stinks to me. The faculty at these schools know they are supporting a crap system. Very few of them were educated at a similar school and very few paid much in tuition, if anything. It's just pure profiteering. And, mind you, I'm not against profit, just not in this way (f-ing your field in the process, the students, future colleagues, etc. . .). Faculty at PAU, Alliant, Argosy, etc = arse.