Ibrahim Fetahi testified against Temple University's former dean of business Moshe Porat on Wednesday
A former Temple University MBA student has hit out at the school's crooked former dean for inflating its rankings and saddling him with $120,000 of debt as well as a qualification that's now worthless.
Ibrahim Fetahi lashed out after it was discovered that Moshe Porat, the former dean who ran Temple's Fox School of Business in Philadelphia for more than two decades, sent false data to US News & World Report's online MBA program rankings to bolster the school's 30th place score.
'In my mind, I paid for fine dining, but I got McDonald's. Yes, I got food, but I didn't get the quality I paid for, or the service,' Fetahi told the jury on Wednesday.
Porat, 74, was let go from Temple in 2018 when the university discovered he had been misreporting student surveys and grades in the online business program since 2015, according to the school. Temple's Philly school did not have enough students to be ranked, so Porat combined its figures with others from the college's Japan offshoot, despite ranking rules explicitly banning universities from doing so.
Temple's online program had enjoyed prestige after it ranked ninth in 2015 and then stayed in first place from 2016 to 2018.
It now ranks at 100th place after being previously unlisted in 2018 when the scandal first broke out.
Moshe Porat, pictured in 2019, is on trial for allegedly submitting false numbers to get a better ranking for Temple University's online business program
He served as the dean of the University's Fox School of Business for more than 20 years
Temple University's online MBA program now ranks at 100
Prosecutors in the Eastern
