CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Wikipedia list article This list of animals awarded human credentials includes nonhuman animals who have been submitted as applicants to suspected diploma mills , and have gotten a diploma. On occasion, they have been admitted and granted a degree, as reported in reliable sources. Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards or fraudulent activities of the awarding institutions. In at least one case, a cat's degree helped lead to a successful fraud prosecution against the institution that had issued it. On occasion, accredited institutions may have awarded mock degrees to animals for humorous purposes (e.g. UNSW awarded a "dogtorate" (not doctorate ) to a dog); [1] such cases are not included below. 1 Cats 1.1 Colby Nolan (MBA) 1.2 George (registra...