<p>I can think of a certain school that is accredited and hence is not a diploma mill - and also fulfills the OP’s requirements of being private, non-religiously affiliated, and is fairly well known - where you have substantial freedom to design your own master’s degree program. As long as you pass a minimum number of graduate-level units that can come from whatever combination of departments you like, and then write an ‘approved’ master’s thesis which simply means that it needs to be signed by just a single faculty member - and which may have no relationship whatsoever with the coursework you took - to earn a master of science degree. For example, you could construct an interdisciplinary social science program via a customized patchwork of courses from economics, poli-sci, philosophy, and business administration/mgmt and obtain a signature for a thesis that encompasses that coursework - or even encompasses none of it - and earn a master’s degree. </p>
<p>Granted, it would be a so-called “master’s degree without specification”, as opposed to a master’s degree that is specifically denoted as granted from, say, the EECS or the economics department. But so what? It’s still a master’s degree from a school that I would argue has an, um, ‘fairly respectable’ brand name. {Also, strictly speaking, you do technically require approval of a committee, however, I have never heard of anybody ever who could obtain a faculty thesis signature yet could not obtain committee approval. In fact, it’s hard for me to believe that that committee would ever oppose the will of that faculty advisor who believes that your thesis is worthy of a master’s degree.}</p>
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