DBAs offer by ACICS schools

Two ACICS schools (Northwestern Polytechnic & Northern Virginia) have been approved to offer DBA program (effective date: Jan. 1, 2006). Guess which accreditation agency will be granted the same privilege by the DOE?

 

Are these distance programs? How about some links?

 

www.unva.edu
www.npu.edu

Both are B & M programs.

 

Those seem like good programs.

Also, I used to live in Dumfries, VA, and I was right next to NOVA. Interestingly, the college has a nice campus but no RA status.

 

That doesn't really answer the question.

By "both are B&M", do you mean the DBAs are not offered online?

...or do you mean they are B&M schools (as opposed to distance-only institutions) that are also offering DBAs online?

 

So many Novas

Funny you call University of Northern VA Nova

Most people call Northern Virginia Community college NOVA too

Then there is Nova Southeastern U....

 

Their DBAs are NOT on-line.

 

Don't forget Villanova in PA which is also called NOVA.

 

I've always wondered why more ACICS-accredited schools did not offer online or DL programs. There are some, but the vast majority are strictly B&M, as opposed to DETC-accredited schools.

That being said, I don't think ACICS-accredited schools have the same degree of acceptance as DETC-accredited programs. Perhaps it's just a matter of perception, but I have seen a lot of posts from ITT students who have found it nearly impossible to transfer their credits to another school. Students at DETC-accredited institutions have run into credit transfer problems, but there seems to be wider acceptance of their degrees and credits than those from ACICS-accredited institutions.

 

Thanks for the info!

 

It's interesting that these programs are outside of the scope of the ACICS accreditation.

I expect that these are authorized pilot programs but I expected to see this disclosure somewhere on their websites.

"Scope of recognition: the accreditation of private postsecondary institutions offering certificates or diplomas and postsecondary institutions offering associate's, bachelor's, or master's degrees in programs that are designed to train and educate persons for careers or professions where business applications or doctrines, supervisory or management techniques, professional or paraprofessional applications, and other business-related applications support or constitute the career."

 

NOVA NOVA NOVA

When I worked for HQMC as an Education Services Specialist, I ran into NOVA issues all the time, as well as when I worked for UMUC.

Students would go to Northern Virginia University, which referred to itself as NOVA and they would think that they were going to Northern Virginia Community College, whom everyone referred to as NOVA, but they always called themselves NVCC.

The problem was that since NOVA was ACICS and NVCC was SACS, they would find problems when going to transfer credits to another college.

Now while one may think its ridiculous for someone to go the wrong school, while thinking it’s another, let me tell you that it was quite common.

In addition to the NOVA confusion, I had students that went to Stratford University (NA) thinking that they were attending Strayer University (RA).

The big issue we constantly ran into was that students went to Parks College (NA), when they thought they were attending to Park University (RA), which had previously been known as Park College (RA).

Now I don't know how one could mess things like that up, but it did happen quite often, and students were upset when their credits didn't transfer, or their degrees weren't recognized by DOD, and they couldn't pursue a commission.

In any case, they at least learned to read, and to look at the fine print.