I am currently enrolled in Ashworth college. It's parent company is PCDI. It is DETC accredited but not RA accredited except for it's GED diploma through PCDI. Does anyone have any information about this school?
Ashworth Thanks Dennis. So far so good with Ashworth... I hope that in the future DETC schools will gain the same status as RA schools.
I am also an Ashworth College student, studying for my A.S. in Psychology. It is a brand new A.S. degree that they have added, and looks very promising. I have no immediate intentions of tranferring credits, without regard to assuming the articulation agreements in place with other DETC schools and so forth. The program is simply useful to my person. I am in my second semester out of four. There is a proctored exam at the end of each semester, and you can submit your unit exams online, which in return, the results are e-mailed back to you within 24 hours, sometimes the same day. The program is great, and hopefully will gain more recognition in the years to come. PCDI just needs to improve their marketability and customer service. The curriculum is great, but when you have a question, calls and/or emails are returned in an unreasonable amount of time, or not at all. Overall, I give Ashworth (PCDI) 8 out of 10. I also took two Diploma courses through PCDI, and they were great. Cheap, in depth, and very useful to me. Of course, everyone has different educational wants/needs. When I attended my local community college for a semester, I had the same troubles with them, if not worse. No callbacks, missing files, congested classes, and less-than-satisfactory teaching methods. So, its not just distance learning schools that bring with them, frustration and difficulties. So far, the pros have outweighed the cons.
