Quick question about Degreeinfo.com

Whomever provides this site and disussion board should be applauded.

Northcentral University appears to be an accredited school but is not included in the data base on this web site. NCU does appear as a "Featured School Partner" via the link below the site's data base search input fields, so it's clear that the site's owners are aware of NCU's existence. I'm simply wondering if the data base includes only those schools that "pay" to be included, or whether it is a more inclusive/objective listing.

Any thoughts?

 

Chip should answer this.

If he doesn't, send him a PM in these forums and ask him to. It isn't that he doesn't pay attention -- although I think sometimes he gets swamped and has a hard time keeping-up -- but I know he's awfully busy lately. This one may have slipped past him.

 

You'll notice, on the opening screen, that the "New Articles" haven't been updated for well over a year. While the forums are delightfully active, it seems the other aspects are much less so. Although I have nothing whatever to do with ownership or operation of this site, I can say with confidence that no school pays anything to be included in the database.

 

The database listings have not been substantially updated recently, and it's possible that Northcentral was still listed as unaccredited at the time we last did a major update, which would have kept it from being listed.

Any regionally accredited school or non-US school meeting GAAP is eligible to be included in our database without charge.* The database itself is a free service that we provide to the community; it is funded by the schools that choose to help support DegreeInfo by taking enhanced listings with us. Those schools will show up before the unsponsored schools, but only in a search result where the school would have been shown anyway. (In other words, all the sponsored listing does is get higher placement in the search results for relevant categories; it does not allow a school to get listed in a category that it wouldn't match. )

*with the exception of one or two schools that we have purposely chosen not to include as a result of lots of complaints on degreeinfo.

 

Is it possible for a non-RA United States school to be GAAP and, if so, would you list them in the database?

Who determines GAAP?

 

There are schools in the database from Australia, Canada, UK, and South Africa. Since it was stated that only GAAP schools are included, it is, apparently, possible.



Tom Nixon

 

A search for "GAAP" found 608 items, including ones on the nature of the term. I heard it used informally at a registrars' convention in Reno some years ago, and liked the concept. But 'informal' is the key word. There is no official definition; each user of the term (or the concept) has his/her own. Some include certain non-US schools (such as those with a Royal Charter from the UK). Some (not I) exclude DETC schools.

 

Are you at liberty to state which schools?

 

DegreeInfo

Thanks for the site Dr. Bear.

I was clueless until I found this site. The primary benifits are content and objective discourse about a rapidly changing market for DL products.

 

Good question.