Weston Reserve University
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- Not to be confused with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Weston Reserve University is an unaccredited institution of higher learning which claims accreditation by the Royal Family of Kuwait to award degrees for "vocational experience" and course work, although it appears to operate mainly in the United States and Canada. It does not appear on UNESCO's list of accredited universities in Kuwait, or on the databases of accredited institutions in the USA or elsewhere. The website also claims accreditation by International Association of Educators for World Peace, but this is not a recognized accreditation association of higher learning[1].
Although its name sounds similar to that of Case Western Reserve University, a fully US-accredited instiution located in Cleveland, Ohio, the two should not be confused. Obfuscation over accreditation and a name which appears deliberately similar to a legitimate institution in the USA have led to speculation that it might be a degree mill.
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Degrees
The institution allows people to purchase degrees in lump sum payments ranging from a Bachelor's degree for a few thousand United States dollars (USD) to a PhD for $USD 7,600[2]. Prices for degrees are not available in Kuwaiti Dinar or any other currency than US dollars.
Furthermore, according to the school "although the parent company, Westonia Advisors, Ltd., has an office in British Columbia, WRU programs are not available in British Columbia nor offered to residents of British Columbia."[3]
Location
Published details on the structure of oversight are minimal, but according to the webpage it has headquarters at a PO Box in Vancouver, Canada and other contacts at a PO Box in Miami, Florida, and a PO Box in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. No Kuwaiti address is listed[4].
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See also
- List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
- List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning
- Saint Regis University