Patriot Bible University

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Patriot Bible University
Former names
Patriot University
TypeUnaccredited distance education
Established1979
AffiliationIndependent Baptist
ChancellorBill Knight[1]
PresidentWayne Knight[1]
Executive DirectorLonnie Skinner[1]
Address
1135 French St.
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RegistrarToni Skinner[1]
Websitewww.patriotuniversity.com and www.patriotuniversity.org

Patriot Bible University (PBU), formerly known as Patriot University, is an unaccredited Independent Baptist correspondence school located in Del Norte, Colorado,[2] which issues religious degrees only.[3] According to the State of Colorado, Patriot's "degrees or diplomas have no state recognition".[4] PBU is not accredited by any agency recognized by the Department of Education.[5] It has been called a diploma mill, lacking sufficient academic standards to award degrees.[6][7]

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  2. ^ "Patriot textbooks are carefully selected from Biblically conservative, professional authors who have written on a focused subject. Course textbooks present and expound on the Bible’s absolute truth and not man’s modernistic reasoning." from "Why Choose Patriot?". Patriot Bible University. 2008. Retrieved August 4, 2008.
  3. ^ "Private Accredited". State of Colorado Higher Education Commission. 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2007.
  4. ^ "Definition of Institutional Status". State of Colorado Higher Education Commission. 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2012. The State of Colorado Higher Education Commission lists Patriot as having "Religious Authorization" which is defined as "religious postsecondary educational institution which is exempt from property taxation under the laws of this state and whose degrees or diplomas have no state recognition."
  5. ^ "U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs". United States Department of Education. 2010. Archived from the original on March 16, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
  6. ^ Levicoff, Steve (1995). "Chapter 12". Name It and Frame It?: New Opportunities in Adult Education and How to Avoid Being Ripped Off by 'Christian' Degree Mills (4th ed.).
  7. ^ "Creationist speaker 'loose about the facts'". York Dispatch. March 13, 2006. Archived from the original on March 25, 2006. Retrieved July 2, 2010.