Anaheim University is a nationally accredited for-profit university based in Anaheim, California.It was founded in 1996 as the Newport Asia Pacific University and the name was changed seven years later to Anaheim University.The University is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an educational accreditation agency founded in 1926 located in Washington, D.C. The DETC is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the United States Department of Education as an accreditor of institutions of higher education. Anaheim University claims to be one of the first online universities in the United States to offer graduate degree programs entirely online. The University, is based in the City of Anaheim in Orange County, California USA.The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of Education, the Akio Morita School of Business (named after Sony founder Akio Morita), and the Akira Kurosawa School of Film (named after Akira Kurosawa). It also contains three institutes: the David Nunan TESOL Institute (established to honor David Nunan), the Carland Entrepreneurship Institute and the Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute (conceived by architect Kisho Kurokawa).The university is best known for its online degree and certificate programs in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).