Barrington University is a Diploma Mill. They are dishonest and misleading about their business practices. Ripoff Norcross Georgia

I enrolled and completed the Bachelors of Business Administration degree program at Barrington. It took me about a year to complete. There is a complete curriculum, homework and test program for each subject studied.

I chose Barrinton because it was affordable and I needed a degree to progress in my carreer. They are a licensed institution, they never represented themselves to be accredited.

I received a legitimate education from Barrington. I worked for the State of California, they accepted Barrington and paid a portion of my tuition. I got a federal student loan for the rest of the tuition.

Now I have a great 6 figure position that I couldn't of achieved without my degree. Definately not a "diploma mill".

Greg McDaniel
San Diego California

The rebuttal that was published to my original complaint regarding Barrington University is very confusing.

I enrolled at Barrington in 2001, and at that time the brochure I was sent indicated accreditation.

I feel that their business practices are definitely misleading. For instance, in reference to the authors claim that they have been sold to a different company, the "University" never made that information known.

I feel that I am owed all of the money I paid to the company so that I may pursue a degree with a different college.

Michelle,

You state that Barrington has "wasted years of [your] time". How far along were you in your studies when you discovered that Barrington was not accredited by a legitimate organization?

According to the South Florida Business Journal, the company was making dubious claims about accredition, but that was way back in 2000. Barrington's current Website does not make any claims that the university is accredited.

By the way, Barrington is no longer owned by Virtual Academics. Virtual Acadmics (aka Cenuco, Inc) sold Barrington privately last year to Rarefied, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company.