Canbourne University

:Not to be confused with Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Canbourne University is an unaccredited degree-issuing body, which claims to be a distance learning online university based in London, United Kingdom. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board states that Canbourne Universtiy doesn't have degree granting authority in the UK. According to the Canbourne University website, in 2002-2003 it had some 14,000 students, the majority (88%) from outside the United Kingdom or the European Union. Canbourne is not accredited by any recognised accreditation body.
Background
The Department for Education and Skills, a branch of the British Government with responsibility for education and training, does not list Canbourne University as a "recognised body" (which has degree awarding powers) or a "listed body" (an institute that may offer courses which lead to a degree of a recognised body). As a result, it may be seen as a degree mill. Canbourne's website is on the .org.uk top level domain; bona-fide academic institutions in the UK are found on the .ac.uk TLD. Being unaccredited means that degree use may be restricted or illegal in some jurisdictions. For example, Canbourne's degrees are illegal to use in Texas.
As of May 2006, Canbourne identified its Chancellor a "Paul C. Crosbie", titled "The Lord Paul of Coleshill GBE KCB DSO". Burke's Peerage did not list any person by that name.
Alumni
John Paul Hammerschmidt, who represented Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993, received two degrees from "Canbourne University, London, England" after retiring from his political career: a B.S. in 1993, and an M.A. in 1997.

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