Breyer State

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Answer: Many very good schools are not accredited, either by their own choice (since accreditation is a totally voluntary and often very expensive procedure), or because they are too new (all schools are unaccredited at one time in their lives, or too EXPERIMENTAL (many would say too innovative) for the generally conservative accreditors.
There are no national standards for accreditatrion.
Unaccredited degrees may be used in Oregon simply by saying they are unaccredited and then it is up to the employer to decide, and since 96% say they see them as positive, they have good usage even in the King's (Contrera's) home state.  

Even John Bear acknowledges that there are over 2,000 totally independent private colleges and universities in the USA. Of course, the world doesn't end with the USA and there are many similar colleges spread throughout all corners of the globe. These private educational providers survive only if they are successful - and offer what people want. In the UK there are many Royal Chartered educational providers which operate entirely privately and totally without any interference with government/regional bureaucratic involvement. And in NZ the seven universities are all totally independent - even though on paper they are 'validated' by the NZ Qualifications Authority; much the same as the OPEN UNIVERSITY in the UK - the world's most successful DL university.