Indiana Business College is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
Sorry I forgot to point that out, Bruce! For the benefit of our new members, in order for an accrediting agency to be legitimate, the should be recognized by the United States Department of Education (USDOE) www.ed.gov and/or the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) www.chea.org . ACICS is recognized by both.
Just a helpful hint-o-th'-day: Always provide a link to the web site of the institution about which you're inquiring in posts like yours so that those from whom you're soliciting opinions won't have to do so much work (Googling and all that) in order to take a gander at it. Doing so also ensures that the web site they're looking at (once they've Googled it and what not) is actually that of the very same institution about which you're inquiring... ...which, in this case is, I believe, this one. IBC has been around seemingly forever, and has been accredited by ACICS since back before ACICS was called ACICS. I'd have to check with her to verify, but I'm pretty sure IBC is where my mom took some classes back in the late '40s and early '50s... not too awfully long before I was born; back when it had a small campus in Gary, Indiana... so, we're not talking about a place that just opened last week. IBC is a rather textbook (and one of the oldest) example(s) of the genre of business skills training schools that one might typically see advertised, for example, on TV during the daytime (when, the advertisers presume, unemployed people who might need what they're selling are watching). Back when my mom took some classes there it was thought of as what they used to call, back then, a "secretarial college." Today it's a serious business college that offers useful, legitimate and nationally-accredited associates degrees, diplomas and certificates that need make no apologies to anyone for their overall quality. Said credentials would, however, be unlikely to be viewed out in the marketplace as being as useful or valuable as associates degrees, diplomas or certificates from certain other venerable institutions of higher learning in that state... such as, for example, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indiana State University... or even regionally-accredited junior colleges like Vincennes University, now that I think about it, just to name one. As an Indiana native who kinda' knows what the typical person walking down the street there tends to think of the various institutions of higher learning in that state, I dare say that, in many circles there, even a degree from Ivy Tech might be greeted a bit more warmly than one from IBC... but I could be wrong (which my ex-wife will tell you is usually the case... but, alas, I digress) . Please don't misinterpret the latter as me saying that IBC's credentials would be necesssarily looked-down-upon, or anything like that. Far from it. I'm simply saying that most Hoosiers would, I think, view an IBC credential as being from a "trade school" sort of place, and not from a "real college" sort of place... fair or unfair as that characterization may or may not be. If what IBC offers is what you (or whomever you're inquiring on behalf of) needs, then you (or that person) would not be shooting yourself (or himself/herself) in the foot to enroll there. But just make sure your/his/her eyes are wide open about how what you/him/her get, in the end, might be viewed; and be sure that you/him/her understand how ACICS national accreditation differs from regional accreditation, and how that may be viewed by institutions offering bachelors degrees into which you/him/her might one day wish to transfer your/his/her IBC associates degree. And, despite the feeling about it that my words, above, may have conveyed, is a fine accreditor, in my opinion. I know others disagree, but as far as I'm concerned it's right up there with DETC in terms of its quality and that which it requires of its accredited institutions. I hate ACICS's web site (though it's getting better seemingly every time I look at it); and I wish its rules about distance versus residential learning were a bit more distance-learning-friendly, but those are just about my only complaints about it. As USDE- and/or CHEA-approved accreditors go, I like ACICS... for what that's worth.
Good for what? I taught as an adjunct in the CIS program for two years - nice money becasue they desperately needed an MCSE with a masters. It's nationally accredited - which is good - and looked down on by most people familiar with the place. I can't imagine them doing anything that an RA school can't do better - except they will exert more effort to get your through the program - because they are a for-profit school - and you will pay for the experience.
