Accreditations and State Approvals

Interesting that Lesley University has RA and still had to get state approvals to operate in these states.

I was under impression that there is exemption if the University is RA but obviously I was wrong, some state have exemption wile others still require to get approval or authorization

 

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Re: Re: Accreditations and State Approvals

That's true for most, if not all states.

When the University of Phoenix started their ground campuses in Massachusetts, they had to jump through several hoops with the MA Board of Higher Education.

 

In California, there are several exemptions to the BPPVE approval process.

Government run schools are exempt. That includes schools like UC (state) and the Naval Postgraduate School (federal).

Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges are also exempt, whether they are government run or private.

And there are assorted exemptions for Cal-bar accredited lawshools, the inevitable religious exemption and so on.

But most private schools not accredited by WASC do have to be state approved. That includes unaccredited schools, schools accredited by non-RA accreditors like DETC or ACICS, and schools accredited by regional accreditors other than WASC.

Perhaps the most prestigious of the CA-approved schools are a Pennsylvania pair: the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, which offers a remote-site MBA in San Francisco, and Carnegie Mellon University which offers several computer related masters degrees at NASA-Ames at Moffit Field. Both of these babies is regionally accredited by Middle States and by various specialized acceditors, but not by WASC.

I heard somewhere that there was a recent proposal to extend the WASC exemption to the other five regional accreditors, but I don't know where that stands.