Warning: Graduate School Composite Site Offers Phony School

This website contains at least one fake school - Atlantic International University (AIU), in its list of graduate programs. The school's accredidation from "Acredditing Commission International" is also in Hawaii, and the state's consumer affairs division has had lawsuit dealings with the school. Information provided by Bear's Guide 15th ed.

Makes me wonder if the website even knows about the school's reputation, or its valueless degrees.

Link: http://distance.gradschools.com/

Check before you buy....

P.S.: Ted Heiks, sorry to burst your show of support.

 

Post Note:

- "Accrediting Commission International" (minor typo from earlier).

- Also, I am simply more cautious now with most of the schools on this site.

 

Hi Shawn,

Out of curiosity, may I inquire with whom you are ordained?

To anticipate a question, I hold credentials in the independent Christian church/churches of Christ and in the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches.

Been looking at getting into something a little more evangelical such as the Missionary Church or the Churches of God (Winebrenner).

I like the independent Christian church but am not sure the Lord's Supper should be served each Sunday. I think it becomes perfunctory.

Congregationalism is all right but the national body endorses no theological positions and refuses to issue positions on social issues. But then again, that's why they're Congregationalists.

 

Jimmy,

Check your PM panel. I answered it there, as this post did not seem the right place for it.

 

But Shawn, you deprived the rest of us from knowing. Jimmy asked on the forum and now it's out there. I was actually wondering the same thing on some other thread I was looking around in.

I'm not ordained -- I'm a woman, it's unheard of in my circles (SBC), but I'm not called to a ministry requiring ordination anyway . I am active in my church and its ministries and I am the mother of a seminary student, so I was curious too.

 

I've used the Distance.GradSchools.com site lots of times, and it's still a good site. I have found a few schools there that I wouldn't have found any other way. I haven't ever run across that AIU on the site, but I obvioulsy have been looking at other degree plans that you.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the public is easily duped. If the average jane or joe plunges into buying an education product without educating themselves, then they might just get this AIU instead of mmmmmm the other AIU (which happens to have a link on the home page).

 

Gradschools.com also has listings for Warnborough, Bircham International. Canyon, Kennedy-Western.

The site has broad coverage, and some useful entries not readily available elsewhere. But it's caveat emptor.

 

Thank you very much Jimmy...now there's this thing hanging out there. Watch this post go off topic like a bad month of Sundays....

"mcdirector"...I am a ULC Ordained Minister. I was ordained on Feb. 5, 2001...and have served as a minister primarily in the areas of Pastoral Counseling, and social justice/advocacy. If you have further questions, please PM me.

Thanks.

 

No bad Sundays here. I was honestly interested. Thanks for your answer.