"We have never knowingly admitted someone from a nonaccredited institution."

Harvard's not happy to have its name affiliated with a nonaccredited school."

New Jersey and Connecticut, both home to some of the country's largest insurance companies, are also among the 15 nonaccredited states.

Faith Baptist College was considered a nonaccredited school, as none of the accrediting organizations reviewed it.

The Barbara Brennan School of Healing is a nonaccredited school.

Nonaccredited institutions are perceived as lacking in quality and rigor, and may be termed diploma mills.

A face-lift is a major operation and it is amazing that such surgery can be performed in a nonaccredited surgical facility without breaking any laws.

Going an Extra Step California had already taken the additional step of starting an agency to regulate the nonaccredited colleges that receive no Federal aid.

Funds with 100 investors can have up to 35 nonaccredited people, though the managers must provide them with the equivalent of a prospectus, a sometimes burdensome task.

"I would characterize the university's position as saying we simply do not admit students from nonaccredited schools," said Roger Thompson, Alabama's associate vice president for enrollment management.

The study found that only 10 percent of the nonaccredited centers offered care rated as good, 84 percent were rated mediocre and 6 percent were rated poor.

In June 2007, the organization's website listed an address in Beverly Hills, California and WAUC listed 57 accredited schools and 28 nonaccredited "members only" schools.

He was also accused of inflating his credentials in campaign literature by emphasizing his graduate education but not mentioning the institution where he studied-George Wythe University-is a nonaccredited institution.

But at the same time, she welcomed the support of the National Conference of State Legislators, which earlier this month resolved to study whether the commissioners had the authority to impose sanctions on nonaccredited states.

In the 2000s, there was a growing effort to define nonaccredited universities or accredited institutions which awarded nonaccredited degrees, as diploma mills, in order to raise awareness about the problem.

Worried that the state's many degree-granting nonaccredited institutions were diluting the worth of diplomas from the state's accredited universities, the California Legislature created the Council of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in 1990.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) represents all accredited programs and their faculty across the United States and Canada, as well as nonaccredited and international affiliate members around the world.

That means you'll either need a US visa or be eligible for the Visa Waiver Program, which is open to Australians, New Zealanders and most Western Europeans, unless they're traveling on a nonaccredited airline (which includes most Latin American airlines).

An eighth-grade dropout who eventually took courses at New York University and Columbia but never graduated, Professor Clarke, who ultimately received a doctorate from the nonaccredited Pacific Western University in Los Angeles at age 78, was hardly stymied by the lack of formal academic credentials.

The incentives for states to adopt the commissioners' 50 different rules and laws are the prestige of accreditation and a rule that accredited states may not accept examiner reports from nonaccredited states unless the nonaccredited state temporarily borrows an examiner from an accredited state to insure that the report meets the commissioners' standards.