I admittedly do not know much about post-baccalaureate academia. If a non-accredited school in fact does offer a PhD simply for taking classes, can you call yourself doctor? What about a non-accredited school that still requires a dissertation but 99% of those submitted are approved? I am assuming that an accredited school handing out PhDs like this would lose their accreditation but maybe that&#x27;s not the case.<p>I&#x27;m just not sure under what circumstances it&#x27;s a legitimate decision to say &quot;You may have a PhD but you&#x27;re not really a doctor.&quot;