Is Belford High School an accredited high school?

Answer 1

Belford University is an organization offering online unaccredited degrees for "life experience". The organization maintains a post office box in Humble, Texas, but its certificates are mailed from the United Arab Emirates.

Belford University is not accredited by any accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education (USDE) or Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Neither of the organizations from which Belford claims accreditation, the International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU) and the Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation (UCOEA), are recognized accreditation associations of higher learning. Without recognized accreditation, Belford's degrees and credits might not be acceptable to employers or other academic institutions, and use of degree titles may be restricted or illegal in some jurisdictions. Jurisdictions that have restricted or made illegal the use of credentials from unaccredited schools include Oregon, Michigan, Maine, North Dakota, New Jersey, Washington, Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and Korea. Many other states are also considering restrictions on the use of degrees from unaccredited institutions.

• No, Belford University is essentially a "diploma mill" and is not properly accredited. At no "real" university is it possible for to complete a degree in a matter of days.

• Not at all its just a rip off, their toll free numbers are routed to other corner of the world you never know. And if you ask them about regular phone number they would never give you one because they can not as they are not even in states.

• Belford University is NOT recognized as a legitimate university. See Houston Press article at the Related Link below.

Personally, I was approved, within 24 hours, for a degree in medicine based on my previous experience, 17 years as a hospital janitor. When I did not enroll, they sent me numerous emails lowering their tuition rates. No legitimate university does this.

• WARNING!!! -This is one institution you really want to stay away from!

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Answer 2

It is difficult to say UGC's usually have their own databases and even though they keep it up to date but sometimes they may not have a particular college or university on their records. In such cases they would ask you to get your academic credentials verified by the college that issued them. Or would inform you about their policy and how you can proceed further.

Answer 3

All universities and colleges need to be accredited to earn recognition. Belford is an accredited online university, but not by an agency recognized by the organizations listed in the Related Question below. In the United States, online universities also need to get accreditation before they can reward recognized degrees.

Belford University is a Scam

Belford University is a part of a large collection of websites that SCAM uses by taking their money and not providing a product. In some cases, they do sell a diploma or degree that is totally fake and useless.Consumers need to be warned about BelfordUniversity and ALL of the other website associated with this group in Pakistan. Below is a list of other FAKE schools associated:

• Ashwood University

• Belford University, Belford High School

• Cambell University

• Corllins University

• Headway University

• Hill University

• Lorenz University

• Northern Port University

• McFord University

• Panworld University

• Rochville University, Rochville High School

• Western Advanced Central University

• Western Valley Central University

• Wilson State University

• Woodfield University, Woodfield High School

• Online-Education-Facts-Online_com

• Speedy-Degrees-com

• University-College_com

• WorryFreeDegree_com

• LifeExperienceDegreesPro_com

• LifeExperienceDegreeProfs_com

• Getaccrediteddegreesnow_com

• Life-experience-degrees-online_com

CONSUMER BEWARE

Answer 4

Answer 1: Yes, Belford High School is definitely an accredited high school, However, it's accreditation is by the International Accreditation Agency for Online Universties (IAAOU) and the Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation (UCOEA), which themselves are called unrecognized or fake by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the U.S. Department of Education (USDE), according to the Related Link below. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) also gives it a grade of "F" and calls it a diploma mill.. If accreditation is of no concern then just proceed with caution. There are recognized, legitimate Distance Education accreditation agencies. The one in the Related Link below (DETC) gives a listing of approved institutions, so distance learning is legitimate, its just the agencies approving them that is questionable..


Answer 2: Yes it is an accredited school by International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU) and Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation (UCOEA). In correction to the previous comment posted here, I need to give a little clarification of being recognized and being illegitimate. Belford is completely legitimate and the bodies that accredit them are legitimate too. But since the concept of online education itself is quite new, therefore the bodies accrediting these schools also face difficulty at times gaining acceptance among the traditionalists. There are very few bodies that are accrediting schools internationally. The above mentioned two are gradually gaining acceptance. The biggest proof is the number of people getting educated through the schools accredit from these institutes. Being a school teacher, I have heard parents now preferring Belford over other bricked schools.

I am not really used to believing in any online institute so easily. Thanks for the comments posted here, It has given me enough understanding about Belford. Most of the concerns have been answered. Let me share that I also called their customer service representative and he was kind enough to guide me on the entire procedure. From the point of getting admitted to the point of getting the diploma.

Answer 3: I tried to just leave this answer alone, but the anti-diploma/degree-mill activist in me just couldn't do it; and the second answerer, I'm sorry, is just painfully obviously a diploma/degree operator whose comment is intended to fool people into believing that there's anything about Belford that's legit!

To be painfully clear (and this is not only literally years of anti-degree/diploma-mill activism, but also just as many years of educational consulting, speaking):

1) Belford High School is a diploma mill.

2) Belford University is a degree mill.

Period. Avoid them like the plague!

According to the above answers, Belford claims (or at least claimed, because I just looked at its both high school and college accreditation pages and they've removed all references to what the above two answers describe) to have accreditation by nobody's-ever-heard-of agencies which pretty much everyone in academia regards as bogus, fake "accreditors." The quotation marks are editorial commentary, because they're not really accreditors, at all. Here are the rules:

• In order for an agency in the US to be an academic accreditor at the high school (secondary) level, itmust be approved by the US Department of Education (USDE); and,
  
  
• in order for an agency in the US to be an academic accreditor at the college (post-secondary) level, it must be approved by either USDE or the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Simple as that. Believe nothing else that anyone else -- and especially what degree/diploma mills -- write or say, anywhere!

At the high school level, it's actually not enough for the accreditor to be approved by USDE. USDE approves both "national" and "regional" accreditors; and while it's an ongoing debate whether USDE- and/or CHEA-approved "national" accreditation is as good as USDE- and/or CHEA-approved "regional" accreditation at the college (post-secondary) level...

...it is positively true that only USDE-approved "regional" accreditation will do at the high school (secondary) level. Yes, there are "nationally" accredited high school programs out there; and they are very good! However, it is an incontrovertible fact that most employers, colleges/universities, and governmental agencies will only accept high school diplomas that are from "regionally" (and not "nationally") accredited schools!

The good-for-nothing Belford is neither "regionally" nor "nationally" accredited. In fact, it's not accredited at all.

However -- and this is important -- just because a school isn't accredited doesnn't mean that it's a degree/diploma mill. There are many quite credible and legitimate schools out there that aren't accredited. Among those who do what I do, most summarily dismiss any school -- no matter how good -- which isn't accredited by a USDE- and/or CHEA-approved agency. I disagree with that, though.

There are any number of reasons why a given school might not want (or cannot afford) to seek accreditation. For example, any brand new school necessarily must operate unaccredited at least until it has been in business long enough, and has had enough graduates, that it may finally apply for accreditation. Of course, such schools will always operate -- and it will always be obvious that they're so doing -- even while unaccredited, exactly the same as they will be required to operate once accredited. And even once it has both been in business long enough, and has had enough graduates, it may still not seek accreditation... either at all, or as quickly as it could.

Unfortunately, even I agree with my collegues that once a school is finally eligible to become accredited, it probably should begin the process; because schools that don't, and which just keep operating unaccredited, really do, after a while, begin to seem suspect.

And one thing that can make any school suspect is its either currently or previously having claimed accreditation by a fake accreditor. It's actually more honest to not claim any accreditation than it is to claim bogus accreditation.

Belford once claimed bogus accreditation. That, alone, speaks volumes about it and its lack of integrity. Belford is now claiming on its website's accreditation page that it's not interested in accreditation; that accreditation is a voluntary process in the first place, and so it's not really required to become accredited; and that, instead, it sufficiently monitors itself that accreditation isn't really necessary.

HOGWASH! Such as that is the clarion call of diploma/degree mills and millists, everywhere! Don't believe a word of it... er... well... wait a minute: that accreditation is voluntary is, at least technically, true. But no school worth its salt would ever not become accredited; and that's just a fact. And in some states, like Pennsylvania, for example, it's kinda' not voluntary, since Pennsylvania is one of a growing number of states which requires that all new schools become accredited as soon as they're eligible; and that they shut down if they don't. Alternatively, Pennsylvania has some approvals of its own, for certain kinds of schools, which can allow them to operate even if not accredited; but my point is that for most kinds of schools, accreditation is not merely optional in Pennsylvania. And, again, Pennsylvania is only one of a growing number of states with the same basic requirement of the schools which operate within their borders.

Further evidence of that Belford is a mill is that its "university" sells (get this; it's unbelievable):

The Degree Packages available at Belford University contain 10 Documents altogether:

* 1 Original Degree

*2 Original Transcripts

*1 Award of Excellence

*1 Certificate of Distinction

*1 Certificate of Membership

*4 Education Verification Letters

For as low as $399!

Place an order now & receive your Degree in 15 days!

An entire degree (which normally takes years, and costs thousands and thousands of dollars), plus supporting documentation, in just 15 days, for only four hundred bucks.

Oh. My. God. It's just so painfully obvious that it's fake, and that it's a mill, that there's no possibility that anyone who hasn't fallen on his/her head too many times in life could be fooled. Yet, as soon as someone gets caught having purchased one of these things, they always claim that they didn't know it wasn't real; that they were duped. Again, HOGWASH! Everyone who gets an academic credential from a mill knows exactly what s/he's doing; that s/he's trying to pull a fast one; and was hoping that the timebomb on his/her resume wouldn't one day explode. That's why I so support states that have zero tolerance of such shenanigans; and that actually arrest people for such things!

Wanna' get fitted with a pair-o'-handcuffs by a person wearing a badge and a gun! Just go take that Belford package into a state like Oregon and list its "degree" on a resume, there! Or on a business card, or letterhead, or in advertising. Go ahead! I dare ya'! (You may want to make arrangements with a bail bondsman, first, though; and make sure you have his/her card in your pocket at all times once you've so listed.)

Belford High School's just as bad. Heck, it tries to convince the site visitor that one may obtain a high school diploma from "life experience." C'mon!

Seriously, this Belford -- both its alleged "high school" and it's seriously despicable "university" -- is just a horrible thing. Everyone in academia who bothers to know about such things universally regards Belford as a mill...

...among the worstand most egregious of them, in fact!

Stay away from Belford. Run! Run far! Run fast! Don't look back!

Answer 5

Most colleges and universities, which are recognized in the United States are also recognized in Dubai. In fact, Dubai is trying to promote itself as a destination for international students and job seekers. Universities and colleges in Dubai are much more faster and efficient in helping students to get their credits transferred.

Answer 6

Because the question asks of its legitimacy, the answer must address whether it is against the law. Whereas it is apparently based in Dubai, it is outside the laws of the US. Its accreditation agency is not recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) nor the US Department of Education (USDE), so therefore its diplomas would not fare well with other schools nor employers.

Answer 7

Belford high school is an accredited online school.

Answer 8

Yes its an online university.

Answer 9

Belford is an accredited online school offering high school diploma program.