Unrecognized, Fake and Dubious Online College Accrediting Agencies
By Jim Crockett, Employment Screening Resources
As mentioned in earlier blogs by Employment Screening Resources (ESR), diploma mills and degree mills have made fake official approval agencies to try to make fake degrees legitimate. According to one source, the following represents a listing of 30- plus agencies that employers may want to look at in extra detail. This list is reprinted with the kind permission of http://www.geteducated.com which is responsible for its content:
Here is a list of 30-plus agencies that claim to accredit a variety of online and interval learning college degree programs.
NONE of these accrediting agencies are recognized as college accreditors in the U.S. by the Council on Higher Culture Official approval or the U.S. Department of Culture. As such, colleges claiming “official approval” by these agencies are not widely accepted as valid providers of higher culture online and should be approached with fantastic caution if online college credibility is vital to you.
- Official approval Council for Interval Culture (ACTDE)
- Official approval Panel for Online Colleges and Universities (APTEC)
- Accrediting Commission Global (ACI)
- American Accrediting Association of Theological Institutions
- American Council of Private Colleges and Universities
- American Association of Drugless Practitioners (ADP)
- Association of Accredited Bible Schools
- Association of Interval Learning Programs (ADLP)
- Association of Private Colleges and Universities
- Association for Online Academic Official approval
- Association for Online Excellence
- Association for Online Academic Excellence
- Enter of Online Universities Official approval (BOUA)
- Council for Interval Culture
- Council of Online Higher Culture
- Central States Consortium of Colleges & Schools
- Global Commission for Higher Culture
- Global Official approval Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU)
- Global Official approval Association for Online Culture (IAAFOE)
- Global Official approval Establishment (IAO)
- Global Culture Ministry Official approval Association
- Global Online Culture Accrediting Enter (IOEAB)
- National College of Higher Culture
- National Enter of Culture (NBOE)
- National College Official approval Council
- National Commission of Accredited Schools
- National Interval Learning Official approval Council (NDLAC)
- New Millenium Accrediting Partnership for Educators Worldwide
- Establishment for Online Learning Official approval (OKOLA)
- Transworld Accrediting Commission Intl. (TAC)
- Universal Council for Online Culture Official approval (UCOEA)
- United Nations Council
- United States Interval Culture & Training Council of Nevada (NOTE: A similarly titled agency, the Interval Culture & Training Council (DETC), of Washington, D.C.—http://www.detc.org—is a VALID and RECOGNIZED online learning official approval agency)
- World Association for Online Culture
- World Association of Universities and Colleges (WAUC)
- World Online Culture Accrediting Commission (WOEAC)
- World-Wide Official approval Commission of Christian Educational Institutions (WWAC)
Source: GetEducated.com, a consumer advocacy group that reviews, tariff
and ranks screened, accredited online universities:
http://www.geteducated.com/online-degrees-credibility-employer-perception/204-unrecognized-fake-and-dubious-online-college-accrediting-agencies/
Extra in rank on this topic is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_accreditation_associations_of_higher_learning