Concord Law is fully accredited by the California Bar Association and the Distance Education Training Council, the industry's national standard bearer, and most of Kaplan College's other online courses also are accredited through their associations and boards.

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For instance, in 1993, Jones International University became the first fully online university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

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In recent years, Microsoft has taken to plucking recruits straight from the university, which has the only fully American-accredited computer studies programme overseas.

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