NEW YORK - A grand jury has indicted 10 people, including teachers, students and administrators, on charges of tampering with a city college's computer system to change grades and create fake degrees in exchange for money.

The defendants include Touro College's former director of admissions, the former director of the school's computer center, three former Touro students and three public school teachers, Manhattan prosecutors said.

They created or altered records for at least 50 people since January, charging fees of $3,000 to $25,000 for better or deleted grades and for bachelor's and master's degrees, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said.

“One dangerous thing they did was give degrees to physicians' assistants,” Morgenthau said.

He said anyone thinking about hiring a person with a physician's assistant degree from Touro should check out the job applicant carefully.

Morgenthau said records found in the Long Island home of defendant Andrique Baron, former $68,000-a-year admission's director at Touro's Manhattan campus, showed he was running the scheme as early as 2003 and possibly earlier.

“We don't know how many hundreds, maybe thousands, were involved,” the district attorney said.

Baron's main accomplice was Michael Cherner, former $80,000-a-year director of the computer center at Touro's Brooklyn campus, Morgenthau said.