Why do some universities not publish the list of persons who obtained a degree from their institution? Some universities do not publish the list of persons who obtained a degree from their institution. In order to verify whether an individual obtained a degree there, one needs to call them, for instance.

Example:


  Contact the Registrar's Office of the appropriate school to request degree certification or enrollment verification.


Why do some universities not publish the list of persons who obtained a degree from their institution? Among other advantages, this would allow to check claim of degrees more easily.
Scumbags like me could include that information when I  calculate a mortgage or credit card interest rate. 

That's not a huge deal except I could implicitly include race in those calculations, because, for example, most people who go to a historically black college are black. And it'd be easy to hide behind a mathematical model by saying, "that's the model that reduces the sum of squared errors, not me breaking the law."

So universities shouldn't make that data easy for anyone to access.

(Disclosure: I wouldn't do this but I could easily see someone else doing it.)