99.5% of Columbia Pacific University Degrees Considered Legal and Valid
Columbia Pacific University has approximately 7500 graduates. Searching through acquired alumni records we recently discovered that 99.5 % of the degrees conferred by Columbia Pacific University are recognized by the state of California as legal and valid. The state uses the term “approved” and signifies the majority of those degrees as “consistent in quality” with degrees conferred by appropriately accredited institutions. The legal and valid degrees are those conferred between 1978 and 1997. The degrees not considered legal and valid amount to one-half of 1%. That is exactly 33 degrees that were conferred after 1997. During that time CPU’s then owners followed their attorney’s advice and remained open while they they appealed in courts the refusal of the state to grant them a re-approval. We assert that remaining open, even though they were following the advice of their attorney, was a mistake on the part CPU’s former owners. Fortunately Columbia Pacific University is now a registered nonprofit corporation and we willingly put in our time as volunteers.
Our electronic records, going back to 1991, show 2082 graduates since 1991. Thirty-three of those graduated after June 21, 1997. The majority of CPU graduates between 1991 and 2000 were from the USA (1734). Also during that period there were 107 graduates from Canada and 241 graduates from a variety of other countries. There are several thousand other graduate records in our non-electronic files.