I don’t find their website assuring either. There is no contact information other than online and toll-free numbers, which means that if they skip out with your money, you have no way of contacting them. If you google them, they do have the website, but they don’t seem to be mentioned by anyone else at all – the website is the only thing that comes up. That is NOT what you would find if you were to look for Harvard University or even East Podunk State University. At the very least, someone would list the university on their online resume! The links to “accrediting” organizations are dead. I looked at the link to their MBA program, since I teach in that area, and their courses all looked like versions of the same thing, there were about 1/5 as many required courses as we have, and a lot of what would be considered essential MBA courses don’t exist. There is no mention of who teaches these courses at all, and no bio on the President (and when I googled him, the only thing I could find under his name was a LinkedIn site that listed the person with that name as “Owner” of a construction business who has only a bachelor’s degree in Texas. Either that is a different Donald Edwin, or this guy is completely unqualified to run an educational institution. In any case, I’ve never heard of a university president who was that low profile). The only positive is that it is really cheap, costing less than half as much for an entire degree than my school charges for a year. That, however, may be a sign that you get what you pay for. I would absolutely not recommend giving ANY money to these people.

I find their web site troubling, also. It is not accredited by the United States Department of Education, which means your degree would be no good in America.

I found it difficult to find their majors, but found three or four different links that led to their Degree programs (Associate, Bachelor, Master, etc.) which had generic descriptions for all of them…”our Bachelor program offers a wide variety of choices, etc.”

I would stay away from these people. Although it seems like a good idea, and is reasonably cheap, a degree from there is not going to do you any good.

Find a reputable college or university and attend classes through them via distance education if that’s what you want to do.

Any school that says they “specialize” in online degrees is probably a bad idea.

Colton is unaccredited. If they had accreditation, they would mention it on their Web site. I usually don’t like to cite Wikipedia, but their entry on unaccredited colleges has lots of references which i suggest you check out.

Unfortunately, you will run into many diploma mills in your search for an online education. It behooves you to understand as much as you can about the fraudulent activity in that market.

Good luck.

I assume you typed Colton University in the search line. I did. I found a site for them. However, I don’t know if they are “Authentic”. Try checking with the Better Business Bureau.

www.bbbonline.org