Corruption in academics

Albert Einstein, if he were still alive and living in China, would have been unable to be a professor nor would he have been given the highest academic title of an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences if it came to the number of dissertations he has published.

If he yearned for the honor, he would have to buy dissertations and pay for their publication.

The turnover from the business of dissertation sales and publication was estimated at 1 billion yuan ($146 million), according to research conducted by a Wuhan University group. In their three-year study, the group headed by a professor found that the total number of academic journals and magazines fall far short of the number of research papers that need to be published.