Ashwood University

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Ashwood University is an institution that claims to give out 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 restricted or illegal in some jurisdictions.

1 Controversy and criticism
2 Connections
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Controversy and criticism

"Degree mills have been dubbed by John Bear, an ex-FBI consultant, as a 'huge crime wave...and almost no one has noticed.'"^[1] The Oregon State Office of Degree Authorization informs that the state "has no evidence that this is an accredited or otherwise acceptable provider of postsecondary education meeting Oregon standards."^[2] The location of the organization's offices is not known with certainty; no address is given on the Web site or the whois record; a 2003 Usenet posting ^[3] indicated that the company is based in California strip mall, but all diplomas are mailed from Pakistan.

Television producer, Tom Kenny, won an Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award (Service News Story - Consumer/Financial) in 2005 for his documentary on online diploma mills entitled, "Degrees of Deception."^{[citation needed]} During his research for the documentary, Kenny bought a degree from Ashwood University; he chose a degree in aerospace engineering, a field he knew nothing about. The diploma he received had been sent from Pakistan.

[edit] Connections

Speedy Degrees (speedydegrees.com), Ashwood University, Belford University, Affordable Degrees (affordabledegrees.com), and Rochville University are operated by the same people. Other sources link speedydegrees.com to Ashwood University.^[4]