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'''Degrees-R-Us''' is an [[school accreditation|unaccredited]] institution that offers degrees of higher learning. ''[[USA Today]]'' reported it is a [[diploma mill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2003-09-28-fakedegrees_x.htm|title=Diploma mills insert degree of fraud into job market|last=Armour|first=Stephanie|date=2003-09-28 <!-- 10:42 PM --> |work=[[USA Today]]|accessdate=5 November 2010}}</ref> In 2004, it was included in a Senate investigation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Testimony&TestimonyID=563&HearingID=175 |title=Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |website=senate.gov |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060409085146/http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Testimony&TestimonyID=563&HearingID=175 |archive-date=9 April 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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The operation was run by a disbarred attorney from his Las Vegas home and "a GAO investigator ordered those bogus degrees in the name of Sen. [[Susan Collins]] (R) of Maine, who had commissioned the agency to investigate the ease of purchasing such degrees."<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20060405115617/http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/topstories/2003/csm/200306/20030611fake.html]</ref><br />
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==Connected institutions==<br />
*Lexington University, a dormant institution purportedly located in [[Middletown, Orange County, New York|Middletown, New York]], which is different from [[Lexington College]], a regionally accredited institution<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning]]<br />
*[[University Degree Program]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060409085146/http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Testimony&TestimonyID=563&HearingID=175 US Senate Investigation]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060405115617/http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/topstories/2003/csm/200306/20030611fake.html Christian Science Monitor]<br />
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