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Revision as of 19:32, 5 April 2006
Ashwood University is an institution that claims to give out academic degrees based on "life experience". It is not accredited by any accrediting agency recognized by the US Department of Education.
The website of 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".
The location of the organization's offices is not known with certainty; no address is given on the website or the whois record; a 2003 Usenet posting [1] indicated that the company is based in California strip mall.
Television producer Tom Kenny won an Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award (Service News Story - Consumer/Financial) in 2005 for his documentary "Degrees of Deception", on online diploma mills. 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.