The Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning states, "There are some unaccredited, profit-making online universities that have achieved reported economic success.

Herguan University is a private, unaccredited university in Sunnyvale, California.

Pacific International University was an unaccredited, conservative, Christian university and seminary located in Springfield, Missouri.

He also teaches electronics and atmospheric science at the University of the Nations, an unaccredited Christian university in Hawaii.

Oikos University is an unaccredited private Korean Christian university in Oakland, California.

Jack Van Impe and his wife have received doctorate degrees from Pacific International University, an unaccredited, conservative Christian university.

Thanks to a doctoral degree earned by correspondence from an unaccredited university, listeners usually referred to him as "Doctor Meltzer."

Kingston College offered degrees from the American University in London, which is an unaccredited university.

D. in Lay Ministry, Anthropology and Theology in 1977 from Logos Christian College, an unaccredited university.

Tri-Valley University was an unaccredited university located in Pleasanton, California.