Is Davenport University an accredited university?

Answer 1

Answer 1: Yes, Davenport University is an accredited university. You can see their list of accreditation here in the Related Link below.

Answer 2: Actually, the link referred to in "Answer 1" is no longer working as I write this; however, I've now corrected it to the actual page where the accreditation information is provided. However, as a matter of practice, no degree seeker should ever, ever, ever trust such information on any school's web site. If it were a degree mill, you can bet it would be a lie. So you must always, always, always verify a school's accreditation (or claim thereof). Fortunately, it's both easy, and it takes just seconds to do. In fact, it'll take you far longer to read, immediately below, how to do it than it will ever take you to actually do it, once you know how.

First, in answer to the question, it's only accredited if we're talking about this place:

Davenport University

6191 Kraft Avenue SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49512

United States

(616) 698-7111 (phone)

(616) 698-0333 (fax)

http://www.davenport.edu

If we're not, then it's a degree mill; and I make that point only because there is, in fact, a degree mill out there with a confusingly similar name which intentionally tries to mislead people. Be very careful to only choose the legitimate school that's really-and-truly accredited...

...which brings me to an important tip for people who ask questions like this in the future, to wit: Determining whether any US college or university (or seminary, or trade school, or other US institution of higher learning) is accredited is as easy as looking-up the school in question on either or both of the US Department of Education (USDE) web site, or the USDE-sanctioned Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) web site, at:

• USDE database - http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation
• CHEA database - http://www.chea.org/search

The USDE and/or CHEA approve all accreditors; and also maintain their own databases of all the schools with their approved accreditors have accredited.

If an accreditor is not approved by either or both of USDE and/or CHEA, then it is not an accreditor. Bogus schools create bogus accreditors (and fancy both names and web sites for them), so don't fall for the lies that they will tell you. The accreditor must be approved by either (or both of) USDE and/or CHEA, or it is positively not really an accreditor. Period.

There are a tiny handful of accreditors approved by USDE, but not CHEA (and vice versa), so if any given school isn't in the first database you check, then check the other one. While most legitimately-accredited schools are in both database, there are a precious few that are in one but not the other. So do check both databases.

If a given school isn't in at least one of those two databases, then it is positively -- no matter what the school claims -- not accredited. Do not fall for any lie of explanation that the school tries to feed you. The school's either in the USDE and/or CHEA database, or it's not; and if it's not, then it is not accredited; and if it is, then it is accredited. Simple as that.

If a school so recently accredited that it's not yet in either the USDE and/or CHEA databases. If that's the case, though, simply find out which accreditor the school claims has accredited it; and then verify that it's a real accreditor by making sure it's on either the USDE's or CHEA's list of approved accreditors at:

• USDE Accreditors - http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Agencies.aspx
• CHEA Accreditors - http://chea.org/Directories/index.asp

If the accreditor isn't on at least one of those two lists, then it is not a legitimate USDE- and/or CHEA-approved accreditor. Do not fall for the bogus school's (or its bogus accreditor's) lies about it. And don't fall for any claims that there are independent or any other kinds of accreditors -- especially religious ones -- which are legitimate, even though they're not USDE- and/or CHEA-approved. If they're not USDE- and/or CHEA-approved, then they're not accredtors. Period.

If the accreditor is on either or both of the USDE and/or CHEA lists (and so really is an approved accreditor), then access its web site only from the link to it shown on those lists...

...and then once you're on the accreditor's web site, its list of accredited schools should be fairly up-to-date (and so should show the extremely-recently-accredited school which isn't yet in either the USDE or CHEA databases.

If the school you're looking for, which claims to be accredited by said accreditor is not even on the accreditor's website (yet... because it's been accredited so recently), then simply fire-off an email to the accreditor, or call it on the telephone, and have it verify that the school in question is, in fact, accredited by it.

Remember that the names that the degree/diploma-mills sometimes give to their fake accreditors are often intentionally confusingly similar to the names of real accreditors (because they're hoping that the degree-seeker will have a "close is good enough" sort of attitude; and so will be fooled). Always verify that the accreditor is real by finding it on the aforementioned CHEA and/or USDE web site lists of approved accreditors; and then only access said accreditors' web sites from the links provided therein. And then only believe whatever you are told by the real and actual accreditor.

Doing all of this, by the way, takes only seconds. It has taken you many times longer to read about it, here, than it actually takes to do it, once you know how.

The person writing this answer has also, long ago, created shorter and easier-to-remember links to both the USDE/CHEA-approved lists of accreditors, and to the legitimately accredited schools in the USDE and CHEA databases, to wit:

• http://tinyurl.com/usde-accreditors
• http://tinyurl.com/chea-accreditors
• http://tinyurl.com/usde-database
• http://tinyurl.com/chea-database

Double-check them for yourself and see that they, indeed, go to all the URLs earlier herein listed, above. Thereafter, just use these easier-to-remember links, instead of the longer and harder-to-remember ones earlier herein provided.