The First Totally Online University to Achieve Accreditation

In early 1999, Jones International University (JIU), founded in 1993 and headquartered in Colorado, became the first totally online university to achieve accreditation from one of the U.S.’s regional accreditors. JIU’s goal was to attain the same level of accreditation required of established, traditional universities, proving that it could be done, and establishing a high-level of quality for the then-new online education environment.

Find out more about JIU on the school’s official site.

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