List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
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This is a list of college
s, seminaries
, and universities
which do not have educational accreditation
.
Degrees or other qualifications from unaccredited institutions may not be accepted by civil service
or other employers. Some unaccredited institutions have formal legal authorization to enroll students or issue degrees, but in some jurisdictions (notably including the United States) legal authorization to operate is not the same as educational accreditation.
Institutions that appear on this list are those that have granted post-secondary academic degree
s or advertised the granting of such degrees, but which are listed as unaccredited by a reliable source. An institution may not maintain accreditation for one of several reasons. A new institution may not yet have attained accreditation, while a long-established institution may have lost accreditation due to financial difficulties or other factors. Some unaccredited institutions are fraudulent diploma mills. Other institutions (for example, some Bible college
s and seminaries
) choose not to participate in the accreditation process because they view it as an infringement of their religious, academic, or political freedom. Some government jurisdictions exempt religious institutions from accreditation or other forms of government oversight. Still other institutions are not required to have accreditation.
Some of the institutions on this list are no longer in operation. Several unaccredited universities have names that are similar to those of accredited institutions or that falsely imply that an entity is a public university.
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
s, seminaries
Seminary
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...
, and universities
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
which do not have educational accreditation
Higher education accreditation
Higher education accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of post-secondary educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
.
Degrees or other qualifications from unaccredited institutions may not be accepted by civil service
Civil service
The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
or other employers. Some unaccredited institutions have formal legal authorization to enroll students or issue degrees, but in some jurisdictions (notably including the United States) legal authorization to operate is not the same as educational accreditation.
Institutions that appear on this list are those that have granted post-secondary academic degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
s or advertised the granting of such degrees, but which are listed as unaccredited by a reliable source. An institution may not maintain accreditation for one of several reasons. A new institution may not yet have attained accreditation, while a long-established institution may have lost accreditation due to financial difficulties or other factors. Some unaccredited institutions are fraudulent diploma mills. Other institutions (for example, some Bible college
Bible college
Bible colleges are institutions of higher education that specialize in biblical studies. Curriculum is Bible-based and differs from that of liberal arts colleges or research universities. Bible colleges generally exclude the study of philosophy, unlike seminaries and theological colleges...
s and seminaries
Seminary
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...
) choose not to participate in the accreditation process because they view it as an infringement of their religious, academic, or political freedom. Some government jurisdictions exempt religious institutions from accreditation or other forms of government oversight. Still other institutions are not required to have accreditation.
Some of the institutions on this list are no longer in operation. Several unaccredited universities have names that are similar to those of accredited institutions or that falsely imply that an entity is a public university.
A
- Académie Européene d'Informatisation, Belgium
- Academy of Natural Therapies, formerly in Hawaii until closed by court order; may have reopened in Wyoming or Montana
- Academy of Religious & Spiritual Studies
- Adam Smith UniversityAdam Smith UniversityAdam Smith University is an unaccredited private distance learning university founded in 1991 by Donald Grunewald, who is still its president. Grunewald, a onetime president of Mercy College, was reported in 2004 to be a business professor at Iona College...
, Liberia; Saipan - Addison State University, Ottawa, Canada; "has no Ontario authorization to issue degrees"
- Akamai University
- All Saints American University, Liberia
- Almeda UniversityAlmeda UniversityAlmeda University is an unaccredited American institution that offers various academic degrees through distance education, including a "Life Experience Degree".-History:Almeda was founded in 1997 and currently has an address in Boise, Idaho...
- Ambassador University Corporation
- American Bible College University, Arizona
- American Central UniversityAmerican Central UniversityAmerican Central University is an unaccredited distance learning private, for-profit university licensed by the state of Wyoming in 2004. The Oregon Office of Degree Authorization states that the institution may be run from Malaysia.-Controversy:...
, Wyoming - American Century University, New Mexico; formerly known as Century University
- American City UniversityAmerican City UniversityAmerican City University is a private unaccredited offeror of higher education via distance education operating from Los Angeles and Fresno, California. The same name was formerly used by a similar institution that operated from Cheyenne, Wyoming....
- American Coastline University formerly operated from mailbox rental services in Hawaii and Louisiana; was owned by Dr Richard Hoyer
- American College of Metaphysical Theology, Golden Valley, Minnesota
- American Global University
- American National University
- American Pacwest International UniversityPacific Western University (Hawaii)Pacific Western University, also called American PacWest International University and registered with the business name Pacific West University was an unaccredited institution based in Hawaii that was closed in 2006 following a lawsuit filed by the State of Hawaii a year earlier.Pacific Western...
- American School of Metaphysics, New York
- American State University (Hawaii) (aka Hamilton University and Richardson University)
- American University in LondonAmerican University in LondonThe American University in London is an unaccredited university located in Seven Sisters Road in London.The AUL's business education programs have been accredited in the past by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education , but this accreditation was suspended in April 2007...
- American University of LondonAmerican University of LondonThe American University of London is a for-profit unaccredited educational institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business, Information Technology, Law, Education & Liberal Arts, Humanities and English, solely by distance learning...
- American University of Hawaii Gulfport, Mississippi; Clinton, Mississippi; (also reported to be operating in India; not to be confused with the University of HawaiiUniversity of HawaiiThe University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
) - American University of Human Services, Mississippi. Reported closed as of 2007.
- American University of Mayonic Science and Technology
- American World UniversityAmerican World UniversityAmerican World University is an unaccredited institution offering post-secondary education programs by distance learning. It has no physical campus. It awards academic degrees...
- Americus University
- Ames Christian University, Florida
- Anacrusis Institute, Greece and United Kingdom
- Andersonville Theological Seminary, Camilla, Georgia
- Apostolic Prophetic Bible College & Theological Seminary, Rochester Hills, Michigan
- Ashford University, United Kingdom; not to be confused with the accredited Ashford UniversityAshford UniversityAshford University is a private, for-profit university located in Clinton, Iowa. It is the largest educational holding of Bridgepoint Education...
in IowaIowaIowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New... - Ashwood UniversityAshwood UniversityAshwood University is an institution which claims to award academic degrees based on "life experience". Ashwood University is not accredited by any recognised accreditation body. As such, its degrees may not be acceptable to employers or other institutions, and use of degree titles may be...
- Aston University, Nigeria (relationship with Aston UniversityAston UniversityAston University is a "plate glass" campus university situated at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Aston was granted its Royal Charter as Aston University on 22 April 1966...
in the UK is not clear) - Atlanta University, Nigeria (not be confused with Clark Atlanta UniversityClark Atlanta UniversityClark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, Georgia. It was formed in 1988 with the consolidation of Clark College and Atlanta University...
or the University of AtlantaUniversity of AtlantaThe University of Atlanta is a for-profit distance education institution based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is authorized by the Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission and has been accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council since 2008. Nick Mithani is the university's...
) - Atlantic International University, located in Hawaii or Nigeria
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- Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
- Barber-Scotia CollegeBarber-Scotia CollegeBarber–Scotia College is a historically black college located in Concord, North Carolina, United States.-Scotia Seminary:Barber-Scotia began as a female seminary in 1867. Scotia Seminary was founded by the Reverend Luke Dorland and chartered in 1870...
(lost accreditation in 2004) - Barrington University, Mobile, Alabama (formerly operated by Virtual Academics.Com of Boca Raton, Florida)
- Belford UniversityBelford UniversityBelford University is an organization offering online unaccredited degrees for "life experience". The organization maintains a post office box in Humble, Texas, but its certificates are mailed from the United Arab Emirates.-Accreditation status:...
(operated from a PO Box in Humble, Texas; not to be confused with the University of Bedford which is linked to University Degree ProgramUniversity Degree ProgramUniversity Degree Program is an unaccredited consortium of diploma mills run by Americans Jason and Caroline Abraham beginning in the 1990s...
) - Beloved Community Seminary, Oregon, Hawaii
- Bennington University (not to be confused with Bennington CollegeBennington CollegeBennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...
) - Berne University USA (not to be confused with University of Bern)
- Bettis Christian University, Arkansas
- B. H. Carroll Theological InstituteB. H. Carroll Theological InstituteB. H. Carroll Theological Institute is an unaccredited Christian Baptist institution in Arlington, Texas with multiple sources of funding and a self-perpetuating board of governors. It is named after Benajah Harvey Carroll and teaches Baptist principles and practices. It operates in cooperation...
, Arlington, Texas - The Bible Doctrine Institute, Jacksonville, Florida; founded in 1986 as The Blue Ridge Bible Institute
- Bienville UniversityBienville UniversityBienville University was an unaccredited institution that was in Louisiana. It was run by Thomas J. Kirk. Bienville University was referred to as a diploma mill or degree mill in a 2003 article by KVBC News 3...
Woodville, Mississippi. Reported closed as of 2007. - Bircham International UniversityBircham International UniversityBircham International University is a private independent institution of higher education via distance education that offers adult degree programs at professional, undergraduate and graduate levels. It is registered in Spain and Delaware. It formerly operated from the Bahamas, or the United Kingdom...
(formerly Oxford International University) - Blackpool UniversityBlackpool UniversityBlackpool University is an organization offering unaccredited degrees. It claims to be located in Dublin; it is recognised neither as an Irish institution of higher education nor as a body with the power to award its own UK degrees....
- Blacksmith University, Nigeria
- Brethren Bible Institute, Pathanamthitta, India http://www.bbipta.com/
- Breyer State UniversityBreyer State UniversityBreyer State University, also called Breyer State University-Alabama, is an unaccredited distance education, for profit, private university that used to have an office in Birmingham, Alabama. It has been described by The New Republic magazine as a diploma mill that "claimed official-sounding...
- Bridgewater University (associated with instantdegrees.com; not to be confused with Bridgewater CollegeBridgewater CollegeBridgewater College, is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college located in Bridgewater, Virginia, a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States...
or Bridgewater State University) - Britain College of Management and Science
- British West Indies Medical College (earlier known as West Indies College of Naturopathic Medicine and Surgery)
- Bronte International UniversityBronte International UniversityBronte International University is an unaccredited post-secondary educational institution formally in South Dakota. It is widely considered to be a diploma mill, operated from an unknown location...
- Buxton UniversityBuxton UniversityBuxton University was an unaccredited vendor of distance education that used a postal address in the United Kingdom. It is associated with the Instantdegrees.com website.-Charter and accreditation status:...
(not to be confused with the University of DerbyUniversity of DerbyThe University of Derby is a university in the city of Derby, England. The main site is on Kedleston Road, Allestree in the north-west of Derby close to the A38 opposite Markeaton Park...
's BuxtonBuxtonBuxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park"...
campus) (Connected with instantdegrees.com)
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- Calamus International University (including Calamus Extension College and Vocalist International Distance Learning Academy), VanuatuVanuatuVanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
(formerly based in Turks and Caicos) - California Graduate School of TheologyCalifornia Graduate School of TheologyThe California Graduate School of Theology is an unaccredited American institution of higher learning in La Habra, California. It was founded in 1968 as an interdenominational graduate school and has been attended by over 5,000 students...
- Calvary Baptist Bible College, King, North Carolina
- Calvary Chapel Bible CollegeCalvary Chapel Bible CollegeCalvary Chapel Bible College is a ministry of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. Its main campus is in Murrieta, California, which has an average attendance of approximately 400 full-time students, 50 part-time students, and 150 distance learning students. The mission statement of Calvary Chapel Bible...
, Murrieta, California (This institution's website states: "We are not accredited, nor are we seeking accreditation, so as to be free from outside control and remain open to the leading of the Holy Spirit.") - Cal Southern University, Houston, Texas, and registered in the South Pacific island of NiueNiueNiue , is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and inhabitants of the island call it "the Rock" for short. Niue is northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to...
(Not to be confused with the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
in Los Angeles, California, California Southern UniversityCalifornia Southern UniversityCalifornia Southern University is a private American university that began its operations in 1978. The University offers associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business, psychology, criminal justice, and law...
in Irvine, California, or California Southern Law SchoolCalifornia Southern Law SchoolCalifornia Southern Law School is a private part-time evening law school in Riverside, California. It is registered with the California State Bar Committee of Bar Examiners , but is not accredited by the CBE or approved by the American Bar Association...
in Riverside, California.) - Cambridge State UniversityCambridge State UniversityCambridge State University is or was a diploma mill, formerly operated in Shreveport, Louisiana and Hawaii and later relocated to Mississippi, offering university-level degrees via distance education. It is not a state school...
, Jackson, Mississippi ("district officials discovered the school has an extensive criminal history and is nothing more than a diploma mill.") - Canbourne University (not to be confused with Camborne School of MinesCamborne School of MinesThe Camborne School of Mines , commonly abbreviated to CSM, was founded in 1888. It is now a specialist department of the University of Exeter. Its research and teaching is related to the understanding and management of the Earth's natural processes, resources and the environment...
) - Canby Bible College, Canby, Oregon, formerly Leadership Training Institute (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as “unaccredited religious exempt school”)
- Canterbury University (Seychelles)
- Canyon College
- Capital City Religious Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Carlingford University, scam run by a prison inmate in Wisconsin; shut down in 2010. The name previously was identified with an address in London, and with the University Degree ProgramUniversity Degree ProgramUniversity Degree Program is an unaccredited consortium of diploma mills run by Americans Jason and Caroline Abraham beginning in the 1990s...
. - Carolina International University, North Charleston, South Carolina
- Carolina University of Theology, Manassas, Virginia (Website states that school is accredited by Accrediting Commission InternationalAccrediting Commission InternationalAccrediting Commission International , also known as Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, possibly associated with International Accrediting Commission , also known as International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges and Theological...
but notes “This accreditation is not recognized by the US Dept. of Education. It is our intention in the months ahead to pursue a full accredited status with an agency recognized by the US Dept. of Education.”) - Chadwick University, Alabama
- Charis School of Divinity, Florida
- Chase University
- Christ Alive Christian Seminary and University, Nigeria
- Christ For The Nations InstituteChrist For The Nations InstituteChrist for the Nations Institute is an unaccredited interdenominational three year Christian Bible institute located in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas . The Bible based curriculum is taught from a Charismatic/Pentecostal heritage...
- Christian Leadership University, New York
- Christian Bible College, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- Christians of Charity American University of Sci. and Tech., Nigeria
- Clarksville School of TheologyClarksville School of TheologyClarksville School of Theology was a seminary in Clarksville, Tennessee. Now defunct, it was shut down by a court battle in 1982 after it was determined their curriculum did not meet State standards for granting an academic degree. In the case, Tennessee ex rel. McLemore v...
, Clarksville, Tennessee; shut down in 1982 - Clayton College of Natural HealthClayton College of Natural HealthThe Clayton College of Natural Health was a non-accredited American distance-learning natural health college based in Birmingham, Alabama, offering classes in various forms of alternative medicine. The school was founded in 1980 by Lloyd Clayton Jr. as the American College of Holistic Nutrition...
(same operator as Chadwick University) (in Alabama) - Clayton Theological Institute, California
- Clayton University, Hong Kong
- Colonial Academy (Chicago
- Colton University
- Columbia Pacific UniversityColumbia Pacific UniversityColumbia Pacific University was an unaccredited nontraditional distance learning school in California. It was founded in 1978 by Richard Crews, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and Lester Carr, a former president of Lewis University, and operated with state approval...
- Columbia State UniversityColumbia State UniversityColumbia State University was a diploma mill based in California that used a Louisiana mailing address. It operated from the mid-1980s until it was closed by court order in 1998....
- Columbus UniversityColumbus UniversityColumbus University is an unaccredited distance education institution that has been based at different times in Louisiana and Picayune, Mississippi....
, Picayune, Mississippi (Closed by state action in Louisiana) - Collumbus University, UK or Nigeria
- Commonwealth Open University (Virgin Islands; not to be confused with Commonwealth InstituteCommonwealth InstituteThe Commonwealth Institute was an educational charity connected with the Commonwealth of Nations, and the name of a building in West London formerly owned by the Institute...
) - Communion of Saints Seminary, Oregon
- Concordia College and UniversityConcordia College and UniversityConcordia College and University is an entity with a primary mailing address in Dominica that represents itself as a higher education institution that awards associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in almost any subject, based solely on the purchaser's work and life experience, without...
- Concordia Theologica Institute For Biblical Studies
- Corllins University
- Cranmer Theological House, Louisiana; Texas
- Crescent City Christian College, Metairie, Louisiana, ("basically a coach's house — no campus, no facilities, no faculty, no library that anyone could discover")
- Crown CollegeCrown College (Tennessee)The Crown College, also called Crown College of the Bible, is an Independent Baptist bible college, seminary, and music conservatory in Powell, Tennessee. The college offers the Bachelor of Biblical Studies degree, with concentrations in pastoral ministry, youth ministry, missions, music ministry...
, Tennessee - Crown CollegeCrown College (Tacoma)Crown College was a small, for-profit, predominantly online college located in Tacoma, Washington. Crown College lost its educational accreditation on July 31, 2007 and it suspended operations on August 10, 2007.- History :...
, Tacoma, Washington, (lost accreditation in 2007)
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- Delta International University of New OrleansDelta International University of New OrleansDelta International University of New Orleans or DIU is a non-accredited post-secondary business school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering online programs in business administration.- Programs :...
- Dispensational Theological Seminary Forest Grove, Oregon (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as an unaccredited religious exempt school)
- Donsbach University (or Donsback University)
- Dorcas University, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Dublin Metropolitan University
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- Earlscroft University
- Eastern Caribbean University, Texas; St. Kitts, Virgin Islands
- Ecole supérieure Robert de Sorbon, France; also linked to the American Universities Admission Program in Sarasota, Florida, which was sued in 2006 for allegedly using the logo of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers to deceive prospective students. (The school's website—www.sorbon.fr—disputes the allegation of being a diploma mill.)
- Ellington University
- Eternity Bible CollegeEternity Bible CollegeEternity Bible College was founded by Francis Chan in 2004. The school is located in Simi Valley, California, USA and shares a campus with Cornerstone Community Church where Chan previously served as the teaching pastor...
- European Business School Cambridge, or European Business School (Cambridge)
- European Open University Not to be confused with the European Open Universities Network at European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
- European Union University, MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
(but incorporated in the U.S. state of IowaIowaIowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
)
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- Fairfax UniversityFairfax UniversityFairfax University was an unaccredited distance-learning institution established in Louisiana in 1986 and discontinued in 2004. Prior to losing its state of Louisiana license in 2001, it held graduation ceremonies in the US. Its president was the British academic Alan M. Jones, PhD. John Bear was...
- Faith Seminary - Salem, formerly Oregon Theological Seminary (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as unaccredited religious exempt school)
- Farington University
- Florida State Christian College, Florida
- Frederick Taylor International University, Hawaii; California
- Frederick Taylor UniversityFrederick Taylor UniversityFrederick Taylor University is a state approved, but unaccredited private institution of higher learning located in Moraga, California, in Contra Costa County. It was established in 1994 to cater to mature adult learners, 20 years or older....
, California - Friends International Christian University, Florida; California. Website states, “FICU is not accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education.”
- Full Gospel Christian College, Pontiac, Michigan
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- Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith
- Generale University (also called Generale Polytechnic Institute)
- Geo-Metaphysical Institute, New York
- George Wythe UniversityGeorge Wythe UniversityGeorge Wythe University is a non-profit classical liberal arts school in Cedar City, Utah which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts, education and political philosophy. GWU's curriculum is centered on the Great Books of the Western World published in 1952 by Britannica...
, Cedar City, Utah - Georgia Christian University, Norcross, Georgia, United States
- Georgian International University, Paoli, Pennsylvania
- Glencullen University ("A phony 'Irish university' is marketing degrees internationally via the Internet. An EL reporter in the US, posing as a prospective student, has been offered an English literature degree from 'Glencullen University', without any study, for $960.")
- Glendale UniversityGlendale UniversityGlendale University or Glenndale University is an unaccredited online supplier of academic degrees. It was founded in 1997.Educational authorities in the states of Oregon and Maine report that Glendale markets itself using the same website as Oaklands University, another unaccredited...
(previously called Glenndale University) - Glenford University in Mississippi. Reported closed as of 2007.
- Global Church Theological Seminary and Global Church University
- Golden State School of TheologyGolden State School of TheologyGolden State School of Theology is an unaccredited bible college and seminary started in 1979 in Alameda, California and currently located in Stockton, California. It only offers distance education. Paul Graves is the current president.-Accreditation:...
(Stockton, California) - Golden State Baptist CollegeGolden State Baptist CollegeGolden State Baptist College is an Independent Fundamental Baptist Bible college in Santa Clara, California, offering bachelor's degrees and master's degree programs in fields related to Christian ministry...
, Santa Clara, California. Part of Independent BaptistIndependent BaptistIndependent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...
Bible College Movement, listed among Wikipedia category Unaccredited Christian colleges and universities. - Golden State University, Mississippi
- Greenwich UniversityGreenwich UniversityGreenwich University is a controversial distance learning institution, originally founded in 1972 in Missouri , trading from 1990 to 2003 in Hawaii--1998 to 2003 under separate ownership--and from 1998 to 2002 in Norfolk Island...
(Operated on Norfolk Island from 1998 to 2002. Not to be confused with University of GreenwichUniversity of GreenwichThe University of Greenwich is a British university located in the London Borough of Greenwich, London, England. The main campus is located on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, a central location within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.-History:The history of the...
, London, England)
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- Hamilton UniversityHamilton UniversityHamilton University was an unaccredited institution based in Evanston, Wyoming, USA. According to the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization, it was first established in Hawaii as American State University...
(aka American State University and Richardson University) - Heartland Baptist Bible CollegeHeartland Baptist Bible CollegeHeartland Baptist Bible College is an unaccredited Independent Fundamental Baptist Bible college in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which offers undergraduate diplomas in pastoral theology, missions, youth, Christian ministries, music education, Christian education , and secretarial science...
, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The School's website states that they "seek no national or regional accreditation, but seeks only God’s approval." - Herguan UniversityHerguan UniversityHerguan University is an unaccredited private university in Sunnyvale, California.-Accreditation status:Herguan University is not accredited by any recognized accreditation organization...
, Sunnyvale, California - Holy Trinity College and Seminary, New Port Richey, Florida; Seminary’s website notes its choice to remain unaccredited and states, "the degree programs of this college are designed solely for religious vocations."
- Honolulu UniversityHonolulu UniversityHonolulu University of the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, or just Honolulu University, is an unaccredited institution of nontraditional higher education .-History:...
(aka Honolulu University of the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities) - Houdegbe North American University, Nigeria
- Hubbard College of Administration InternationalHubbard College of Administration InternationalHubbard College of Administration International is an unaccredited school that teaches administration using methods developed by Church of Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The headquarters for the school is located at 320 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90004. The school began...
, Los Angeles, California - Huntington Pacific University
- Hyles-Anderson CollegeHyles-Anderson CollegeHyles–Anderson College is an unaccredited Bible college in unincorporated Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, with a postal address at 8400 Burr Street, Crown Point, Indiana 46307-1499. The college is a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Hammond. It focuses primarily on training pastors,...
and Hyles-Anderson College Seminary, Crown Point, Indiana. Part of Independent BaptistIndependent BaptistIndependent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...
Bible College Movement. Founder asserted that the college remains unaccredited because the government would "take away our freedom."
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- Illinois Theological Seminary Online, also named In-Depth Theological Seminary, Independent Theological Seminary and Intercontinental Theological Seminary. School states: “ITS is not an accredited school with any accreditation board. ITS very much cherishes...the principle of separation between Church and State.”
- Intercontinental University
- Intercultural Open University Foundation, global, has had headquarters in the Netherlands and USA
- Interfaith Seminary, formerly Interfaith School of Theology, New Rochelle, New York (Institution’s website says: “As a religious Seminary the Interfaith Seminary is not accredited by an government agency.”)
- International American UniversityInternational American UniversityInternational American University is a non-accredited private university of higher learning offering programs through both distance education and classroom instruction. The University started operations in 2005 in Los Angeles, as the Management Institute of America, Inc...
, California; Nepal - International Bible University, Norwalk, California; Carpinteria, California; Hawaii. Also called "E M International Bible University" or "E.M.I. Bible University."
- International Seminary, Plymouth, Florida
- International Technological UniversityInternational Technological UniversityInternational Technological University is an unaccredited, non-profit, private university in San Jose, California.-Accreditation:...
San Jose, California - International Theological University California
- The International University, Missouri or Nigeria
- International University for Graduate Studies St. Kitts and Nevis
- International University of Ministry and Education, Grandview, Missouri
- International University, ViennaInternational University ViennaThe International University , Vienna was an unaccredited private university located in Vienna, Austria, with a subsidiary in Kiev, Ukraine. According to IU, it was chartered in 1980 by the U.S. state of Alabama as a private degree-granting postsecondary institution. The Vienna operation was...
(an American unaccredited private institution with a campus in Vienna, Austria) - IOND UniversityIOND UniversityIOND University is an unaccredited supplier of distance education based in Japan and registered as a domestic nonprofit corporation in Hawaii. It is considered to be a diploma mill operation by experts in Japan....
, Hawaii; Japan - Irish International UniversityIrish International UniversityThe Isles International University/Université , formerly called the Irish International University, is an unaccredited university operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium....
- Isles International University
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- James Monroe University (also called James Monroe International University)
- Jacksonville Theological Seminary, Southaven, Mississippi
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- Kennedy-Western UniversityWarren National UniversityWarren National University was a post-secondary, distance learning, unaccredited private university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the United States, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Until December 14, 2007, its administrative offices were located in Agoura Hills, California...
- Kensington University, California; Hawaii (closed in 2003 by state action)
- Kent CollegeKent CollegeKent College, Canterbury is a co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. It was founded in 1885, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
, Louisiana - Kentucky Christian University (Ashland), Ashland, Kentucky (not to be confused with Kentucky Christian UniversityKentucky Christian UniversityKentucky Christian University is a comprehensive baccalaureate level Christian university located in Grayson, Kentucky. It was founded on December 1, 1919, as Christian Normal Institute, by J. W. Lusby and J. O. Snodgrass. As a "normal school" its programs included a high school, a junior...
in Grayson, Kentucky, which is accredited) - Kepler Space University, South Carolina
- Kingston CollegeKingston College (British Columbia)Kingston College, was an educational institution in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada that was ordered closed in October 2006.. Before its closure by provincial authorities, it had been a private, for-profit college operating in the Vancouver area by businessman Michael Lo under Kingston Education...
, British Columbia; illegal operation closed down October 4, 2006; not to be confused with Kingston College (England)Kingston College (England)Kingston College is a College of Further and Higher Education based in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England. It has five campuses in the town of Kingston. The main campus is the tallest building in the town and is based on Kingston Hall Road. The second campus is based on Richmond Road and...
in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England - Kingsway Bible University (Des Moines, Iowa) (formerly Mid-States Bible College)
- Knightsbridge UniversityKnightsbridge UniversityKnightsbridge University is a private distance learning institution based in Denmark that caters mostly to English speaking people. It was founded in 1991 by Henrik Fyrst Kristensen...
- Knoxville CollegeKnoxville CollegeKnoxville College is a historically black liberal arts college in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church of North America, the school has an enrollment of approximately 100 students, and offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies and an Associate...
(lost accreditation in 1996)
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- Lacrosse University Reported closed as of 2007.
- Lambuth UniversityLambuth UniversityLambuth University was a liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee. It was supported by the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Lambuth's athletic teams participated in the NAIA's TranSouth and Mid-South Conferences...
in Jackson, TennesseeJackson, TennesseeJackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...
(Lost accreditation in 2010.) - LaSalle University (Louisiana) (not to be confused with La Salle UniversityLa Salle UniversityLa Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the school was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. As of 2008 the school has approximately 7,554...
(Philadelphia), nor with The LaSalle Extension University (Chicago)) - Leadway University, Nigeria
- Life Christian University, Tampa, Florida
- Lobi Business School, Nigeria
- London College of Technology and Business
- London External Studies, UK or Nigeria
- Louisiana Baptist UniversityLouisiana Baptist UniversityLouisiana Baptist University is an accredited theologically conservative Christian university, founded in 1973, located at 6301 Westport Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana....
(formerly Baptist Christian University), founded in 1973 by Jimmy G. TharpeJimmy G. TharpeJimmy Gid Tharpe, Sr. , was an Independent Baptist clergyman in Shreveport, Louisiana, who founded the unaccredited theologically conservative Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary, originally established in 1973 as Baptist Christian University... - Louisiana Christian University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
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- Madison UniversityMadison UniversityMadison University is a non-accredited distance learning college located in Gulfport, Mississippi. The state of Mississippi considers Madison an "unapproved" college. Madison is also listed as an unaccredited and/or substandard institution by four other U.S. states...
, Gulfport, Mississippi - Maharana Patap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya, Pratapgarh, India
- Mahila Gram Vidyapith, Prayag, Allahabad, India
- Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
- Management Institute of CanadaManagement Institute of CanadaThe Management Institute of Canada or Institut Canadien de Management is an unaccredited graduate and postgraduate business school in Quebec offering online programs in business administration.- Programs :...
- Master's International School of Divinity, Evansville, Indiana (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as “unaccredited religious exempt school”)
- Metropolitan Collegiate Institute (associated with the fake teaching hospital Sussex General Hospital, both purportedly in London)
- Metro University, Nigeria
- Miami Christian University, Miami, Florida
- Mid-States Bible College (Des Moines, Iowa) (now Kingsway Bible University)
- Mississippi International University
- Monticello UniversityMonticello UniversityMonticello University was an unaccredited diploma mill incorporated in Hawaii, but based Kansas, whose operator Leslie Edwin Snell was found guilty in 2000 of issuing invalid degrees, and which Kansas has accused of being fake...
- Morris Brown CollegeMorris Brown CollegeMorris Brown College is a private, coed, liberal arts college located in the Vine City community of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is a historically black college affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church...
(lost accreditation in 2002) - Mountain States Baptist College, Montana. Part of Independent BaptistIndependent BaptistIndependent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...
Bible College Movement.
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- National University of Nigeria
- Nations UniversityNations UniversityNationsUniversity, also known as Nations University, is an unaccredited distance education college affiliated with the Churches of Christ which offers certificate, bachelor's and master's degrees in religious studies, and a master of divinity degree. All courses are offered online or through...
, Monroe, Louisiana - New Age International UniversityNew Age International UniversityThe New Age International University is a University of Seborga, a small town in the region of Liguria in northwest Italy, Europe. It is licensed by the Department of Education of the Principality of Seborga, a micronation located within Liguria. However, it is not recognised as an accredited...
, nominally of the Principality of SeborgaPrincipality of SeborgaThe Principality of Seborga is a micronation located in the northwestern Italian Province of Imperia in Liguria, near the French border, and in sight of Monaco....
, a micronation within the borders of Italy; admissions, licensing and certification are controlled by the Institute of Education, Research & Development, KolkataKolkataKolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, India - New Tribes Bible Institute, Jackson, Michigan; Waukesha, Wisconsin
- New West Seminary Oregon City, Oregon, (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as unaccredited religious exempt school)
- Nightingale University, Panama City, Panama; Melbourne, Australia
- North Central University, Nigeria
- North American Reformed Seminary, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Northern Ireland Institute of Business and Technology, Malaysia
- Novus University or Novus University International, Diamondhead, Mississippi
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- Oaklands University, United Kingdom. May be "a new version of the University Degree ProgramUniversity Degree ProgramUniversity Degree Program is an unaccredited consortium of diploma mills run by Americans Jason and Caroline Abraham beginning in the 1990s...
." - Ohio Christian College
- Open International University, Nigeria
- Oregon College of Ministry, Gresham, Oregon (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as unaccredited religious exempt school)
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- Pacific International UniversityPacific International UniversityPacific International University was an unaccredited, conservative, Christian university and seminary located in Springfield, Missouri. 1989 alumnus of Pacific International University Carl Baugh was the university president...
, Springfield, Missouri; originally was located in Victoria, Australia - Pacific National University and Theological Institute, Los Angeles, California
- Pacific Southern University
- Patriot Bible UniversityPatriot Bible UniversityPatriot Bible University , formerly known as Patriot University, is an unaccredited fundamentalist Christian correspondence school located in Del Norte, Colorado which issues religious degrees only. PBU is not accredited by any agency recognized by the Department of Education...
(formerly Patriot University, Colorado; claims that its accreditation is by American Accrediting Association of Theological InstitutionsAmerican Accrediting Association of Theological InstitutionsAmerican Accrediting Association of Theological Institutions is a Christian nonprofit accreditation mill, based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It was formed in 1983...
, which is an unrecognized agency deemed to be an accreditation mill) - Pebbles University, Nigeria
- Pensacola Bible Institute
- Pensacola Christian CollegePensacola Christian CollegePensacola Christian College is an unaccredited fundamentalist, Independent Baptist college in Pensacola, Florida, USA, founded in 1974 by Arlin Horton. The college is actively pursuing accreditation, and as of 7 November 2011 had been awarded candidate status with Transnational Association of...
In November 2011 the college announced that it had been granted candidacy status for accreditation from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and SchoolsTransnational Association of Christian Colleges and SchoolsThe Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools is a U.S. national educational accreditation agency for Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries...
. - Portland Bible CollegePortland Bible CollegePortland Bible College is a private four-year college in Portland, Oregon, USA that offers theological and church ministry degrees. It was founded in 1967 by Dick Iverson and is associated with the City Bible Church. The campus is adjacent to City Bible Church atop Rocky Butte in northeast...
Portland, Oregon (Oregon’s Office of Degree Authorization lists this institution as unaccredited religious exempt school) - Preston UniversityPreston UniversityPreston University is the first private university of Pakistan with campuses in Karachi, Kohat, Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad and Ajman...
(aka Fairmount International University) - Preston University Pakistan
- Promis University of London
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- Raja Arabic University, Nagpur, India
- Redding University
- Regent International University (not to be confused with the accredited Regent UniversityRegent UniversityRegent University is a private coeducational interdenominational Christian university located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The school was founded by the American televangelist Pat Robertson in 1978 as Christian Broadcasting Network University. A satellite campus located in...
in Virginia Beach, Virginia) - Rev. D. O. Ockiya College of Theology and Management Sciences, Nigeria (lack of accreditation affects only its degree-awarding programmes)
- Richmond Open University, Nigeria
- Rochville UniversityRochville UniversityRochville University is an unaccredited online university offering a "Life Experience Degree, and Certificate Program". It has been accused of being a diploma mill...
(not to be confused with La Rochville University, an accredited university in France) - Rocklands University
- Royal University Izhia, Nigeria
- Rushmore UniversityRushmore UniversityRushmore University is an unaccredited institution of higher learning offering master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of business-related fields, exclusively via distance learning.-History:...
- Rutherford UniversityRutherford UniversityRutherford University, also known as Senior University International and Stratford International University, was an unaccredited private institution that offered degrees online...
(previously known as Senior University and Stratford International University)
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- Sacramento International University, (also called San Francisco International University, and Bellington University)
- Saint Augustines University of Technology, Nigeria
- St. Clements UniversitySt. Clements UniversitySt Clements University is a higher education institution which has reported itself to be registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its website lists a number of affiliations and recognitions and a network of over 20 centres and offices in a number of countries...
(Called a "degree mill" by the State of Maine, but removed from list after a formal action taken by St. Clements University.) - St. John's University School of Medicine, Montserrat
- St. John's UniversitySt. John's University (Springfield, Louisiana)St. John's University of Practical Theology is an unaccredited institution of higher education formerly located in Springfield, Louisiana, and offering distance education.-History:...
or St. John's University of Practical Theology, Springfield, Louisiana - Saint Luke School of Medicine, Liberia; California; Ghana
- Saint Martin’s College and Seminary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- St. Paul’s College & Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- St. Regis UniversitySaint Regis UniversitySaint Regis University is a now-defunct diploma mill operation that was one of about 120 connected institutions operated by an American fraud ring from about 1999 until 2005, when it was shut down by U.S. government authorities....
, Dominica; Liberia; Washington D.C.; and Washington (closed by court order in June 2005) (not to be confused with Regis UniversityRegis UniversityRegis University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic, Jesuit university in the United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1877, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
in Denver, which is accredited) - Saint Stephen’s Educational Bible College, Los Angeles, California
- St. Thomas-a-Becket College & University, Canterbury, England
- Saint Wolbodo Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland
- Samuel Ahmadu University, Nigeria
- Sancta Sophia Seminary, Oklahoma. Claims "accreditation" by the Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, Inc.Accrediting Commission InternationalAccrediting Commission International , also known as Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, possibly associated with International Accrediting Commission , also known as International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges and Theological...
, an unrecognized accreditation agency. - Sequoia UniversitySequoia UniversitySequoia University was an unaccredited higher education institution in Los Angeles, California which acquired a reputation as a prolific "degree mill" selling degree certificates. Although it was shut down in 1984 by a court order, it is most notable today as the institution from which L...
, Los Angeles and Oklahoma. Closed by court order in 1984. - South California Polytechnic University, Taiwan
- South Pacific University
- Springfield Christian College and Theological Seminary
- Stanton University
- Strategic Business School, Nigeria
- Success Seminary, Oregon
- Suffield UniversitySuffield UniversitySuffield University is a degree mill, an unaccredited internet school specializing in what it calls Life Experience Degrees, issued upon payment, with life experience assessment based on the word of the applicant. Suffield is not accredited by any accreditation body recognized by its country...
; operating illegally in Connecticut - Summerset University ("Appears to be a new version of the "University Degree ProgramUniversity Degree ProgramUniversity Degree Program is an unaccredited consortium of diploma mills run by Americans Jason and Caroline Abraham beginning in the 1990s...
" cluster supposedly closed by UK and US action. It has no legal authority to issue degrees.") - Sunday Adokpela University, Nigeria
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- Tennessee Christian University, Tennessee
- Texas Christian Bible University, Crowley, Texas
- Texas Theological University, Texas
- Thomas Jefferson Education FoundationThomas Jefferson Education FoundationThe Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation was a diploma mill run in the 1990s and based in South Dakota.-Diploma mill:According to John Bear, author of Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning, in 1998 the Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation ran an advertisement in USA Today for...
- Thompson University
- Tiu International University, UK and Nigeria
- Thunderwood College, Internet only, an admitted spoof website for an unaccredited college which offers instant "degrees" in a variety of subjects.
- Trafalgar Distance Learning Institute, Calgary and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
- Tri-Valley UniversityTri-Valley UniversityTri-Valley University was an unaccredited university located in Pleasanton, California. According to its website, the school "is a Christian higher education institution offerring quality academic programs in Engineering, Business, Ministry, Law and Medicine at a Christian learning environment." ...
, Pleasanton, CaliforniaPleasanton, CaliforniaPleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area located about east of Oakland, and west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton was ranked the wealthiest middle-sized city in...
, raided by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly operating as a front for illegal immigration. - Trinity College of the Bible and Theological SeminaryTrinity College and SeminaryTrinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary, also known as Trinity College of the Bible; is a nondenominational Bible college and seminary located in Newburgh, Indiana. Trinity offers unaccredited distance education programs at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree levels for...
, Newburgh, Indiana. ("Trinity is currently working towards accreditation with a U.S. Department of Education (USDE) recognized agency for all of its programs." (Accessed August 18, 2010)) - Trinity College and University
- Trinity Southern University (See: Colby Nolan)
- Tyndale Theological SeminaryTyndale Theological SeminaryTyndale Theological Seminary is an unaccredited private Christian seminary with its campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Tyndale's 2007-2008 Academic Catalog states: "Tyndale Theological Seminary and Biblical Institute is not accredited, and has no plans to pursue any type of accreditation for several...
, Texas. In 1999, Tyndale Theological Seminary was fined for violating a state law that required institutions to have state approval or accreditation to award degrees or use terms such as "college" or "university" in their names. The fine was appealed, and in August 2007 the Texas Supreme CourtTexas Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for non-criminal matters in the state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is the court of last resort for criminal matters.The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices...
ruled that Tyndale and other seminaries that offer theological education and award religious degrees can do so without state government approval or accreditation.
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- UNESCO University, Nigeria
- United Christian University, Nigeria
- United Nations University, Delhi, India (not to be confused with United Nations UniversityUnited Nations UniversityThe United Nations University is an academic arm of the United Nations established in 1973, which serves purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The UNU undertakes research into the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare that are the concern of...
) - United Nigeria University College
- Universal Bible Institute, Birmingham, Alabama
- Universal Degrees
- Universal University
- Université de Wallis (lists addresses in Wallis and FutunaWallis and FutunaWallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands , is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,...
and United Kingdom) - University Consulting, Inc.
- University Degree ProgramUniversity Degree ProgramUniversity Degree Program is an unaccredited consortium of diploma mills run by Americans Jason and Caroline Abraham beginning in the 1990s...
(formerly operated at least 28 different diploma mills in at least five countries) - University of Applied Sciences & Management in Benin and Nigeria
- University of Berkley, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- University of Beverly HillsUniversity of Beverly HillsThe University of Beverly Hills is a now-defunct, unaccredited school which lacked a campus or laboratory facilities.In his 1992 book, The News Shapers: The Sources Who Explain the News, Lawrence C...
, California - University of Central Europe, Pascagoula, Mississippi, Reported closed as of 2007.
- University of Esoterica (Institution website states: "We are not accredited by any state agency, and don't want to be...due to entanglements and Separation of Church and State.")
- University of FairfaxUniversity of FairfaxUniversity of Fairfax is an unaccredited non-profit institution of higher education headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. The University of Fairfax is also the DBA name of the Potomac Education Foundation....
- University of the Holy Land, Israel
- University of Humberside (not to be confused with the University of LincolnUniversity of LincolnThe University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861....
, which formerly used this name) - University of Industry, Nigeria
- University of Lamberhurst
- University of Metaphysical Sciences, California and Minnesota
- University of Metaphysical Studies, New Mexico
- University of MetaphysicsUniversity of MetaphysicsThe University Of Metaphysics is a private, post secondary, distance learning, theological school operating under the auspices of the International Metaphysical Ministry. IMM is a non-profit, religious exempt organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. The...
, Studio City, California, and Sedona, Arizona. Also called University of Sedona - University of the NationsUniversity of the NationsThe University of the Nations is a global Christian university with branch campuses in 600 locations in 142 countries, providing coursework in over 100 languages around the world. Its largest locations are in Kona, Hawaii , Jeju, South Korea, and Perth, Australia...
- University of Natural Health, Brandon, Mississippi
- University of North America, Virginia
- University of Northern VirginiaUniversity of Northern VirginiaThe University of Northern Virginia or UNVA is an unaccredited for-profit private undergraduate and graduate university located in Northern Virginia. Founded in 1998, the university offers bachelors, Masters and doctoral degrees. The school's Virginia locations include Annandale, Manassas, and...
- University of Northern Washington
- University of NorthWestUniversity of NorthWestUniversity of NorthWest, established in 2001, is a provider of distance education that offers academic degrees in several fields. Additionally, its website states that it offers classes at 'learning centers' in Canada, China, Bangladesh, Ireland, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria,...
- University of RedwoodUniversity of RedwoodUniversity of Redwood is a fictitious college claiming to be located in Oregon in the United States. It can be confused with Reed College in Portland, Oregon, or the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California....
(fictitious) - University of Santa MonicaUniversity of Santa MonicaThe University of Santa Monica is a private unaccredited graduate school in Santa Monica, California, offering master’s and doctoral degrees in spiritual psychology.-Mission:...
, also known as Kohenor University - University of Sedona, Studio City, California, and Sedona, Arizona. Alternative name for University of Metaphysics
- Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya, India
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- Vancouver University WorldwideVancouver University WorldwideVancouver University Worldwide was an unaccredited vendor of higher education credentials, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which described itself as a "secular consortium university of globally located public and private member colleges". It offered to evaluate "external learning"...
- Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya
- Vision International UniversityVision International UniversityVision International University is an unaccredited institution in Ramona, California offering academic degree programs designed to prepare men and women for professional service in Christian ministry...
- Volta University College in Ghana and Nigeria
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- Warnborough CollegeWarnborough CollegeWarnborough College UK provides a variety of educational programs, both on-site in Canterbury, England, and by distance learning. Warnborough College Ireland offers distance-learning programs from Ireland...
, Ireland - WARP University, Fort Mill, South Carolina
- Warren National UniversityWarren National UniversityWarren National University was a post-secondary, distance learning, unaccredited private university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the United States, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Until December 14, 2007, its administrative offices were located in Agoura Hills, California...
- Washington International UniversityWashington International UniversityWashington International University is an unaccredited institution of higher education founded in 1994 and currently incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. It describes itself as a "university without borders," serving clients from around the world via distance education...
, Pennsylvania, British Virgin Islands - Washington School of Theology, Oregon
- West Coast Baptist CollegeWest Coast Baptist CollegeWest Coast Baptist College is an Independent Baptist Bible college in Lancaster, California, offering graduate and undergraduate degrees in Pastoral studies, evangelism, missions, church ministries, music, Christian education, youth ministry, and secretarial studies...
, Lancaster, California. Website states: "[I]t is not our intention to [pursue accreditation].” - West Coast University of Panama, Bangladesh
- Western Michigan Bible Institute, Muskegon, Michigan
- Weston Reserve UniversityWeston Reserve UniversityWeston Reserve University is an unaccredited distance education institution of higher learning based in the Seychelles. It describes itself as a unit of University Consortium International, Ltd., registered in the Seychelles...
- Wisconsin International University, Florida, Ghana (Wisconsin International University CollegeWisconsin International University CollegeThe Wisconsin International University College is one of the new private universities in Ghana. It is located at Agbogba Junction near Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana...
has National Accreditation Board accreditation in Ghana as a university college affiliated with the University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast), Ukraine and other locations, now using the name Worldwide International University - Woodfield University (also operates the illicit Woodfield High School), South Carolina
- Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary, Washington
- Worchester University, Panama
- World Information Distributed University, Russia; Belgium; Switzerland
- Worldwide International University, new name of Wisconsin International University
See also
- Educational accreditationEducational accreditationEducational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
- Accreditation millAccreditation millAn accreditation mill is an organization that purports to award educational accreditation to higher education institutions without having government authority or recognition from mainstream academia to operate as an accreditor. Implicit in the terminology is the assumption that the "mill" has low...
- American Biographical InstituteAmerican Biographical InstituteThe American Biographical Institute is a paid-inclusion biographical reference directory publisher based in Raleigh, North Carolina which has been publishing biographies since 1967...
- Bogus colleges in the United KingdomBogus colleges in the United KingdomIn the United Kingdom a bogus college is a fake college or university used as a means to enable people from overseas to apply for a British student visa and consequently reside in the United Kingdom, usually for illegal work purposes. They have also been set up as a money making scam...
- Council for Higher Education AccreditationCouncil for Higher Education AccreditationThe Council for Higher Education Accreditation is a United States organization of degree-granting colleges and universities. It identifies its purpose as providing national advocacy for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation in order to certify the quality of higher education...
- Diploma millDiploma millA diploma mill is an organization that awards academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without recognition by official educational accrediting bodies. The purchaser can then claim to hold an academic degree, and the organization is motivated by making a profit...
- Distance educationDistance educationDistance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom...
- List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
- List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning
- Nationally recognized accrediting agencies in the United States