American Capital University, Cheyenne WY

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  1. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    American Capital University derives its powers through Faith in God and performs its educational services by the authority granted by the State of Wyoming.---------

    Unaccredited and probably religious exemption status in their state of Wyoming.

    I'm not classifing them as diploma mill but a school without recognized accreditation.

    Read about the state of Wyoming:

    Wyoming New Haven For Online Diploma Mills, David Root, AACRAO Transcript, February 16, 2005.

    Wyoming is currently home to eleven online universities, none of which are accredited by any recognized authority. This high concentration of so-called diploma mills is due to the state's loose requirements for who can operate as a center of higher education and grant degrees. Many of these schools offer advanced degrees with little actual academic work. In one case, a government investigator was forty percent of the way to a master's degree in sixteen hours. In another, a student could get credit for a course in hazardous waste management by passing a 100 question, open-book, multiple choice exam...
    Legislation designed to impose stricter guidelines was shelved in December, after two of the state's senators returned from an all expenses paid trip to Dubai and Pakistan, where they were guests on campuses of Preston University, a distance learning school based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
     

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