University of the People UoPeople accreditation: the ultimate guide
First of all, before you read this article, we recommend its introduction in the homepage.
Fake news about WASC regional accreditation
WASC Senior College and University Commission, also known as WSCUC, is a serious regional accrediting body, unlike UoPeople's DEAC. In February 2020, UoPeople claimed to be going to receive WASC regional accreditation. WASC didn't issue any statements but UoPeople started to bombard Internet forums, social networks, YouTube etc. claiming that they were going to be accredited. Fake news! You just have to read WASC's official page instead of UoPeople's fake articles: University of the People is just a candidate, which means it is not accredited by WASC because UoPeople's application was rejected. UoPeople can try again in a few years, but nobody really knows when it will be accredited (assuming it will be accredited). Besides, accreditation is a long process — unless you get accredited after a couple of days by accreditation mills such as DETC-DEAC. DEAC, which is the previously defunct DETC, is not a regional accreditation body and has nothing to do with WASC. In the USA, regional accreditation is the most reputable form of accreditation, which allows students and graduates to transfer credits from an institution to others, or to qualify for state licensure. This means that UoPeople.edu is not regionally accredited in America, and the reason is very simple: unlike all other universities, including online universities, which have real headquarters, real facilities, real professors and instructors etc., University of the People doesn't have anything, and almost no one considers it a real and legitimate school.
Besides, UoPeople reps now claim that "national accreditation is the same as regional accreditation, because they are both legal". First of all, nobody said that national accreditation is illegal — technically it is not illegal — but the point is that UoPeople's ridiculous national self-accreditation, namely DETC-DEAC, has no credibility in academia, in business or in the workplace. It is no accident that UoPeople also tried to get regional accreditation through WASC (without success): if national and regional accreditation were the same thing, why would UoPeople seek regional accreditation too?
UoPeople fake worldwide accreditation
University of the People sells many degrees in Africa and Asia. Unfortunately, people in those countries don't know that UoPeople degrees are not accredited there and are therefore useless: very few (important) universities in the world have multiple international accreditations, which allow them to issue degrees in more than one country. This is not the case with the tiny University of the People, which is barely accredited in the US and is unaccredited in the rest of the world. For the sake of clarity, UoPeople is not accredited in Europe, Africa, Asia or Oceania.
Comprehensive list of countries where University of the People UoPeople.edu is either accredited or unaccredited
USA, including Puerto Rico: UoPeople is nationally accredited but not regionally accredited. More specifically, not accredited by WASC, which rejected the first request for accreditation: UoPeople now has five years to comply with WASC directives. Not recognized by WES.
European Union: UoPeople is not accredited in Europe
Austria: UoPeople is not accredited in Austria
Belgium: UoPeople is not accredited in Belgium
Bulgaria: UoPeople is not accredited in Bulgaria
Croatia: UoPeople is not accredited in Croatia
Cyprus: UoPeople is not accredited in Cyprus
Czech Republic: UoPeople is not accredited in Czech Republic
Denmark: UoPeople is not accredited in Denmark
Estonia: UoPeople is not accredited in Estonia
Finland: UoPeople is not accredited in Finland
France: UoPeople is not accredited in France
Germany: UoPeople is not accredited in Germany
Greece: UoPeople is not accredited in Greece
Hungary: UoPeople is not accredited in Hungary
Ireland: UoPeople is not accredited in Ireland
Italy: UoPeople is not accredited in Italy
Latvia: UoPeople is not accredited in Latvia
Lithuania: UoPeople is not accredited in Lithuania
Luxembourg: UoPeople is not accredited in Luxembourg
Malta: UoPeople is not accredited in Malta
Netherlands: UoPeople is not accredited in the Netherlands
Poland: UoPeople is not accredited in Poland
Portugal: UoPeople is not accredited in Portugal
Romania: UoPeople is not accredited in Romania
Slovakia: UoPeople is not accredited in Slovakia
Slovenia: UoPeople is not accredited in Slovenia
Spain: UoPeople is not accredited in Spain
Sweden: UoPeople is not accredited in Sweden
Afghanistan: UoPeople is not accredited in Afghanistan
Albania: UoPeople is not accredited in Albania
Algeria: UoPeople is not accredited in Algeria
Angola: UoPeople is not accredited in Angola
Anguilla: UoPeople is not accredited in Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda: UoPeople is not accredited in Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina: UoPeople is not accredited in Argentina
Armenia: UoPeople is not accredited in Armenia
Aruba: UoPeople is not accredited in Aruba
Australia: UoPeople is not accredited in Australia
Azerbaijan: UoPeople is not accredited in Azerbaijan
Bahamas: UoPeople is not accredited in the Bahamas
Bahrain: UoPeople is not accredited in Bahrain
Bangladesh: UoPeople is not accredited in Bangladesh
Barbados: UoPeople is not accredited in Barbados
Belarus: UoPeople is not accredited in Belarus
Belize: UoPeople is not accredited in Belize
Benin: UoPeople is not accredited in Benin
Bermuda: UoPeople is not accredited in the Bermudas
Bhutan: UoPeople is not accredited in Bhutan
Bolivia: UoPeople is not accredited in Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina: UoPeople is not accredited in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana: UoPeople is not accredited in Botswana
Brazil: UoPeople is not accredited in Brazil
British Virgin Islands: UoPeople is not accredited in the British Virgin Islands
Brunei: UoPeople is not accredited in Brunei
Burkina Faso: UoPeople is not accredited in Burkina Faso
Burundi: UoPeople is not accredited in Burundi
Cambodia: UoPeople is not accredited in Cambodia
Cameroon: UoPeople is not accredited in Cameroon
Canada: UoPeople is not accredited in Canada and not recognized by WES
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde): UoPeople is not accredited in Cape Verde
Cayman islands: UoPeople is not accredited in the Cayman islands
Central African Republic: UoPeople is not accredited in the Central African Republic
Chad: UoPeople is not accredited in Chad
Chile: UoPeople is not accredited in Chile
China (People's Republic of China): UoPeople is not accredited in China
Colombia: UoPeople is not accredited in Colombia
Comoros: UoPeople is not accredited in the Comoros
Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo): UoPeople is not accredited in Congo
Costa Rica: UoPeople is not accredited in Costa Rica
Curaçao: UoPeople is not accredited in Curaçao
Djibouti: UoPeople is not accredited in Djibouti
Dominica: UoPeople is not accredited in Dominica
Dominican Republic: UoPeople is not accredited in the Dominican Republic
Ecuador: UoPeople is not accredited in Ecuador
Egypt: UoPeople is not accredited in Egypt
El Salvador: UoPeople is not accredited in El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea: UoPeople is not accredited in Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea: UoPeople is not accredited in Eritrea
Eswatini: UoPeople is not accredited in Eswatini
Ethiopia: UoPeople is not accredited in Ethiopia
Fiji: UoPeople is not accredited in Fiji
Gabon: UoPeople is not accredited in Gabon
Gambia: UoPeople is not accredited in the Gambia
Georgia: UoPeople is not accredited in Georgia
Ghana: UoPeople is not accredited in Ghana
Grenada: UoPeople is not accredited in Grenada
Guatemala: UoPeople is not accredited in Guatemala
Guinea: UoPeople is not accredited in Guinea
Guinea-Bissau: UoPeople is not accredited in Guinea-Bissau
Guyana: UoPeople is not accredited in Guyana
Haiti: UoPeople is not accredited in Haiti
Honduras: UoPeople is not accredited in Honduras
Hong Kong: UoPeople is not accredited in Hong Kong
Iceland: UoPeople is not accredited in Iceland
India: UoPeople is not accredited in India
Indonesia: UoPeople is not accredited in Indonesia
Iran: UoPeople is not accredited in Iran
Iraq: UoPeople is not accredited in Iraq
Israel: UoPeople is not accredited in Israel, which is remarkable
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire): UoPeople is not accredited in the Ivory Coast
Jamaica: UoPeople is not accredited in Jamaica
Japan: UoPeople is not accredited in Japan
Jordan: UoPeople is not accredited in Jordan
Kazakhstan: UoPeople is not accredited in Kazakhstan
Kenya: UoPeople is not accredited in Kenya
Kyrgyzstan: UoPeople is not accredited in Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait: UoPeople is not accredited in Kuwait
Laos: UoPeople is not accredited in Laos
Lebanon: UoPeople is not accredited in Lebanon
Lesotho: UoPeople is not accredited in Lesotho
Liberia: UoPeople is not accredited in Liberia
Libya: UoPeople is not accredited in Libya
Madagascar: UoPeople is not accredited in Madagascar
Malawi: UoPeople is not accredited in Malawi
Malaysia: UoPeople is not accredited in Malaysia
Maldives: UoPeople is not accredited in the Maldives
Mali: UoPeople is not accredited in Mali
Mauritania: UoPeople is not accredited in Mauritania
Mauritius: UoPeople is not accredited in Mauritius
Mexico: UoPeople is not accredited in Mexico
Moldova: UoPeople is not accredited in Moldova
Monaco: UoPeople is not accredited in the Principality of Monaco
Mongolia: UoPeople is not accredited in Mongolia
Montenegro: UoPeople is not accredited in Montenegro
Morocco: UoPeople is not accredited in Morocco
Mozambique: UoPeople is not accredited in Mozambique
Myanmar: UoPeople is not accredited in Myanmar
Namibia: UoPeople is not accredited in Namibia
Nepal: UoPeople is not accredited in Nepal
New Guinea: UoPeople is not accredited in New Guinea
New Zealand: UoPeople is not accredited in New Zealand
Nicaragua: UoPeople is not accredited in Nicaragua
Niger: UoPeople is not accredited in Niger
Nigeria: UoPeople is not accredited in Nigeria
North Korea: UoPeople is not accredited in North Korea
North Macedonia: UoPeople is not accredited in North Macedonia
Norway: UoPeople is not accredited in Norway
Oman: UoPeople is not accredited in Oman
Pakistan: UoPeople is not accredited in Pakistan
Palau: UoPeople is not accredited in Palau
Panama: UoPeople is not accredited in Panama
Papua New Guinea: UoPeople is not accredited in Papua New Guinea
Paraguay: UoPeople is not accredited in Paraguay
Peru: UoPeople is not accredited in Peru
Philippines: UoPeople is not accredited in the Philippines
Qatar: UoPeople is not accredited in Qatar
Russia: UoPeople is not accredited in Russia
Rwanda: UoPeople is not accredited in Rwanda
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: UoPeople is not accredited in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Kitts and Nevis: UoPeople is not accredited in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia: UoPeople is not accredited in Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: UoPeople is not accredited in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa: UoPeople is not accredited in Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe: UoPeople is not accredited in São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia: UoPeople is not accredited in Saudi Arabia
Senegal: UoPeople is not accredited in Senegal
Serbia: UoPeople is not accredited in Serbia
Seychelles: UoPeople is not accredited in the Seychelles
Sierra Leone: UoPeople is not accredited in Sierra Leone
Singapore: UoPeople is not accredited in Singapore
Solomon islands: UoPeople is not accredited in the Solomon islands
Somalia and Somaliland: UoPeople is not accredited in Somalia or Somaliland
South Africa: UoPeople is not accredited in South Africa
South Korea: UoPeople is not accredited in South Korea
Sri Lanka: UoPeople is not accredited in Sri Lanka
Sudan and South Sudan: UoPeople is not accredited in Sudan or South Sudan
Suriname: UoPeople is not accredited in Suriname
Switzerland: UoPeople is not accredited in Switzerland
Syria: UoPeople is not accredited in Syria
Taiwan (Taipei, Republic of China): UoPeople is not accredited in Taiwan
Tajikistan: UoPeople is not accredited in Tajikistan
Tanzania: UoPeople is not accredited in Tanzania
Thailand: UoPeople is not accredited in Thailand
Togo: UoPeople is not accredited in Togo
Tonga: UoPeople is not accredited in Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago: UoPeople is not accredited in Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia: UoPeople is not accredited in Tunisia
Turkey: UoPeople is not accredited in Turkey
Turkmenistan: UoPeople is not accredited in Turkmenistan
Tuvalu: UoPeople is not accredited in Tuvalu
Uganda: UoPeople is not accredited in Uganda
Ukraine: UoPeople is not accredited in Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (UAE): UoPeople is not accredited in the UAE
United Kingdom: UoPeople is not accredited in the UK
Uruguay: UoPeople is not accredited in Uruguay
Uzbekistan: UoPeople is not accredited in Uzbekistan
Vanuatu: UoPeople is not accredited in Vanuatu
Vatican City: UoPeople is not accredited in the Holy See
Venezuela: UoPeople is not accredited in Venezuela
Vietnam: UoPeople is not accredited in Vietnam
Yemen: UoPeople is not accredited in Yemen
Zambia: UoPeople is not accredited in Zambia
Zimbabwe: UoPeople is not accredited in Zimbabwe
all other countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, Central America (including the Caribbean), South America: UoPeople is not accredited.
Bottom line: when UoPeople's owner and reps aka ambassadors claim it to be fully accredited, they are blatantly lying.
University of the People has published a long list on Reddit (List of international universities accepting UoPeople credentials) claiming that hundreds of real and accredited universities accept credits transferred from UoPeople.edu. That list is completely false. Just as an example, UoPeople claims that you can transfer credits to the Sapienza Università di Roma Italia, which is one of the largest universities in Europe and in the world. We phoned this university, but they had never heard of University of the People. They also said that any foreign university that wants to transfer credits to Rome Sapienza — or any other Italian university — must be recognized by the competent Italian embassy or consulate (in this case, it would be the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles). Since University of the People is not recognized by any embassies or consulates, transferring credits would be illegal and its degrees are invalid in Italy. Besides, UoPeople's blog, which we described here, in an article titled "Will my degree be relevant in my country?", claims that "Upon graduation, UoPeople students are ready and prepared to continue studying in high-quality educational institutions. They have continued their education at Carnegie Mellon University of Australia, University of Nairobi, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Newcastle in Australia, University of Waikato in New Zealand and elsewhere." As we have seen, these kinds of claims are all false, because Sapienza University of Rome confirmed that the institution never accepted students from the unknown University of the People, and it is no accident that UoPeople does not show any documents.
The unaccredited laughable UoPeople MBA
There exist four important accrediting agencies for MBA programs: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB, chiefly American), the Association of MBAs (AMBA, chiefly British), the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP, chiefly American), and the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS, chiefly European). The best MBA programs hold accreditation from one or more of these accrediting bodies.
Since UoPeople.edu is not accredited by any of them, its "MBA" is just a ridiculous piece of paper, devoid of recognition in the business world, which you could have printed yourself without paying thousands of dollars to the Israeli University of the People Education Ltd diploma mill.
UoPeople claims that other MBAs are "too expensive", while UoPeople's MBA is a bargain and an "education revolution". However, after attending a legit business school, accredited by a legit business accrediting body, you will receive a respectable and accredited real MBA. Operating a business school — not a tiny offshore virtual diploma mill — is expensive, which is why a real MBA program is "expensive".
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