Apollos University was a

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headquartered in

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. It was

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by the

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(DEAC).

History

The university was founded in August 2004 as a non-profit university. However, it closed the non-profit corporation and reopened as a for-profit corporation in May, 2005. The new corporation was named Apollos University of California with a "

doing business as A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. Registering the fictitious name with ...

" name of Apollos University. Formerly headquartered in

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, Apollos University moved to Great Falls, Montana, on September 30, 2016. and is incorporated and approved as a private institution by the State of

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. Apollos University received its approval from the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education (BPPVE) in July 2005 and enrolled its first student in September 2005. The university held its first graduation ceremony in July 2007. Apollos applied for accreditation in 2010 and received accreditation status in January 2012 from Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) which is now known as the

(DEAC). In 2020, DEAC renewed Apollos University's accreditation. In December 2024, the university closed. Madison Education Group serves as the records retention and administration of academic records for Apollos University Alumni.

Accreditation

Apollos University was an approved private institution by the State of

and was

by the

Distance Education Accrediting Commission The Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), formerly the National Home Study Council and then the Distance Education and Training Council, is a private and non-profit national educational accreditation agency in the United States speciali ...

(DEAC).DETC News Spring 2002 Page 5
Retrieved July 25, 2018

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History

Accreditation

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