Degrees-R-Us Explained

Degrees-R-Us is an unaccredited institution that offers degrees of higher learning. USA Today reported it is a diploma mill.^[1] In 2004, it was included in a Senate investigation.^[2]

The operation was run by a disbarred attorney from his Las Vegas home and "a GAO investigator ordered those bogus degrees in the name of Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, who had commissioned the agency to investigate the ease of purchasing such degrees."https://web.archive.org/web/20060405115617/http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/topstories/2003/csm/200306/20030611fake.html

Connected institutions

• Lexington University, a dormant institution purportedly located in Middletown, New York, which is different from Lexington College, a regionally accredited institution

See also

• List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
• University Degree Program

External links

• US Senate Investigation
• Christian Science Monitor

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diploma mills insert degree of fraud into job market. Armour. Stephanie. 2003-09-28 . USA Today. 5 November 2010.
2. Web site: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs . senate.gov . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060409085146/http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Testimony&TestimonyID=563&HearingID=175 . 9 April 2006 . dead.