Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities, which also recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. The association is based in Washington DC. The CHEA website contains a searchable database to check accreditation status of approved accreditation agencies, accredited schools, or schools currently in the process of getting accreditation. ...

See also

• Accreditation mill
• Diploma mill
• List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
• List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning
• List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
• School accreditation
• US Department of Education

Accreditation mill refers to a accreditation group with low educational standards and has no affliation with the government. ... A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is an organization which awards academic degrees and diplomas with very little or no academic study and without recognition by official accrediting bodies. ... This article lists colleges and universities whose qualifications may possibly not be accepted by civil service or other employers. ... Generally, accreditation is the process by which a facility becomes officially certified as providing services of a reasonably good quality, so that the public can trust in the quality of its services. ... The United States Department of Education was created in 1979 (by PL 96-88) as a Cabinet-level department of the United States government, and began operating in 1980. ...

External links

• CHEA.org – Offical website