Accredited Schools
The Importance Of Accredited Schools
Northwest Association of Accredited Schools
When you select the right online school is more difficult than just choosing a school. You must choose the right accredited schools. It will be better if you have plan on your college next. Because if you make a wrong choice, it can smash up your chances at getting your fovourite college.
Accredited schools mean that schools have the minimum quality of an educational program. So there’re three reasons that you must select the program from accredited schools. First of all is many universities and colleges just accept students that come from accredited schools. Secondly, unaccredited credits can not be transfer if you want to transfer to another schools. So you must take classes again that you had taken. And the last reason is accredited schools program have higher quality, although it’s not always.
Do unaccredited schools have no value? In most cases is yes. But not about the value, it was about U.S minimum standart in educational programs, that is regional or national accredited schools
There are six regional accrediting bodies that accredit schools. The six regionals are:
- States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA)
- New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC-CIHE)
- North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCACASI)
- Northwest Association of Accredited Schools (NAAS)
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
Accreditation can be confusing for those in the business. I can only imagine how it looks from the outside. There are both regional accreditors, national accreditors, and other specialized accreditors. While one would think that national accreditation would be the standard, regional accreditation has the reputation as being of the highest quality. Whether that is true is a question for a different time and article. Oddly enough we have an accreditor of accreditors called the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA.org). It is responsible for governmental recognition of accreditors.
