American University of London
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The American University of London (AUOL) is an online diploma mill.[1] The company disputes the label[2] and instead describes itself as a for-profit unaccredited educational institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees solely by distance learning.[3] It is a different organization from the American University in London.
The institution has no campus. Its website says it was established in 1984 as the American College of Science & Technology and was incorporated as an independent distance learning institution in 1999 in St. Kitts and Nevis. The website lists mailing addresses in London and Beverly Hills, California.[3] Bears' Guide and several U.S. state education agencies indicate that the institution is associated with the Anacrusis Institute, an unaccredited institution based in Greece and the United Kingdom.[4][5][6][7]