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Barrington University

Mobile, AL

James of Brownsburg IN (7/11/03):
The summer of 2001 I registered with Barrington University. In my conversations and emails with them they told me they were accredited. I was very careful as my company will not reimburse me for classes taken at non-accredited universities. Now I am finding out that Barrington really isn't accredited per se.

They claim to be but by an unrecognized agency that isn't even in the United States. I have copies of several emails that were sent to me by Ms. Kleinman that were intended to make me believe I was getting a US accredited degree. I was misled.

My company will not reimburse me the money since Barrington is not accredited in the US. I have made every attempt to handle this myself without getting a lawyer.

I wasted $2,125 on tuition and another $200 on books for worthless classes. I also wasted my time doing lessons and taking tests for these classes.

Ms. Kleinman responds (6/7/04):

When does this report get removed as this situation was rectified and the student was returned their money over 2 years ago and this still comes up every time we look or type in a search engine. We rectified the problem and came to a happy resolution with the student.

From the Barrington Web site:

Barrington University is not accredited by any of the regional accrediting organizations in the United States. Accreditation is a voluntary process and is not a requirement by the Department of Education to grant degrees.

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