Commercial University Ltd. in New Delhi offers degrees in commerce, one of hundreds of private colleges trying to fill an education gap as India’s growth creates a middle class eager for its children to succeed. The operation doesn’t have a campus, nor are its degrees recognized by the government. Commercial University, based in a post office building between the capital and the sprawling streets of the old city, is one of more than a dozen institutions labeled as “fake” in an alert on the website of the University Grants Commission, India’s college regulator. Bogus degrees are a symptom of the crisis in India’s ... (full story)